The Da Vinci Code
The Da Vinci Code is an action-adventure game that combines puzzle-solving with fighting and stealth elements, the choice between the latter two is mostly left to the player. The game alternates between…
The Da Vinci Code is an adventure developed by The Collective, released 19 May 2006 on PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 14.9 hrs to finish.
What The Da Vinci Code is
The Da Vinci Code is an adventure game developed by The Collective and released in 2006. It was published by 2K Games. It is available on PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Slayer.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The game begins with Silas (voiced by Phil LaMarr) sitting in his chamber, tightening a spiked metal cilice around his leg. He then picks up a handgun and leaves. The game cuts to Robert Langdon (Robert Clotworthy), a Harvard professor of symbology in Paris for a lecture, arriving at the Louvre, where he has been asked to view a crime scene by Cpt. Bezu Fache (Enn Reitel). Jacques Saunière (Neil Ross), Langdon's friend and curator of the museum, has been murdered. In flashback, Silas is shown asking Saunière where something is. Saunière tells him, and Silas responds, "I believe you. The others told me the same," before shooting him. In the museum, Fache shows Langdon that before he died…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, mystery and stealth. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
The Da Vinci Code holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 15% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2006 averaged 65, so it scored 5 points below the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 14.9 hrs.
What it launched against
The Da Vinci Code launched on 19 May 2006, within three weeks of Half-Life 2: Episode One, New Super Mario Bros., Hitman: Blood Money and Heroes of Might and Magic V. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Half-Life 2: Episode One, New Super Mario Bros., Hitman: Blood Money, Heroes of Might and Magic V.
Official trailer
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