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The Devil Inside

The Devil Inside is a third-person action horror game in which Dave, a hero with a dark secret, is compelled to participate in a cruel television reality show in which he has to please the audience by killing…

70 1 March 2000

The Devil Inside is a shooter developed by Gamesquad, released 1 March 2000 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What The Devil Inside is

The Devil Inside is a shooter game developed by Gamesquad and released in 2000. It was published by Cryo Interactive. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Dave, a hero with a dark secret, is compelled to participate in a cruel television reality show in which he has to please the audience by killing monsters. Dave has a female demonic alter ego called Deva. The player can transform between Dave and Deva at certain places in the stages. Dave mostly uses guns equipped with laser sights. Deva, on the other hand, casts spells that require magic points, which can be restored by consuming souls left from defeated enemies, as well as float in the air and regenerate her health under specific circumstances.
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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, comedy, horror and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

The Devil Inside holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 37% of the 3,305 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2000 averaged 72, so it scored 2 points below the year average.

What it launched against

The Devil Inside launched on 1 March 2000, within three weeks of Thief II: The Metal Age, Soldier of Fortune, Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes and Rollcage Stage II. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Thief II: The Metal Age, Soldier of Fortune, Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes, Rollcage Stage II.

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When did The Devil Inside come out?
The Devil Inside was released on 1 March 2000 for PC (Microsoft Windows).

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