Venetica
In a fantastical Venice, The Corpus are deceived by a cunning necromancer. Transformed into an undead fiend, the conniving imposter is hell-bent on destroying the reinstated Death and the council of Corpus…
Venetica is an adventure developed by Deck13 Interactive, released 4 September 2009 on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Venetica is
Venetica is an adventure game developed by Deck13 Interactive and released in 2009. It was published by Atari, Inc.. It is available on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on OGRE.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Set in the fantastic world of long ago Venice, the young Scarlett falls victim to a terrible mystery, which begins with the murder of her companion by a secretive alliance of mighty necromancers. Thus fate takes its inevitable course and threatens to throw the world out of order. Scarlett finds out that she is the daughter of death incarnate and is blessed with his ultimate powers. She is the only one who can stop the gruesome powers that threaten to destroy the entire living world.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy and historical. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Venetica holds a critic score of 47 out of 100. That places it above 7% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2009 averaged 67, so it scored 20 points below the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Pentium 4 CPU 2.4 GhZ, 2 GB RAM and NVidia GeForce 7600 GT with 256 MB Ram. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 16GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Venetica launched on 4 September 2009, within three weeks of Batman: Arkham Asylum, Pokémon SoulSilver Version, Pokémon HeartGold Version and Halo 3: ODST. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Batman: Arkham Asylum, Pokémon SoulSilver Version, Pokémon HeartGold Version, Halo 3: ODST.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
Screenshots
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