It is a misty evening in the year of our lord 1912. The Pattersons, a poor but proud aristocratic family of the British nobility, and some of their closest friends, arrive at the castle Malachi, residence of a wealthy Romanian Count. It is only three days until the family’s eldest daughter, Rebecca,...
It is a misty evening in the year of our lord 1912. The Pattersons, a poor but proud aristocratic family of the British nobility, and some of their closest friends, arrive at the castle Malachi, residence of a wealthy Romanian Count. It is only three days until the family’s eldest daughter, Rebecca, is to wed to the count’s son, uniting the family with the rich heritage of the Malachi, hopefully restoring its glory.
The only person missing is you, the brother of the bride, who is on your way from Stockholm, where you have defended the Union Jack in the noble art of fencing in the Olympics. You are to arrive later during the evening.
Lord Patterson is disappointed when the Count himself doesn’t greet the family at their arrival, but still he lets the servants show them all to their rooms, without complaining too loudly. It is not until later – when the doors are slammed shut and locked behind them, that he realizes his mistake, that they have become prisoners and are at the Count’s mercy…
Nosferatu: The Wrath of Malachi is an action driven shock-style horror first person shooter game. You face the challenge of freeing your family and friends from the captivity of a Romanian Count at his castle. As the game progresses it stands clear that all is not what it seems and violence becomes the only way to save yourself, your family and mankind…
A random architecture generator changes the layout of the castle along with the locations of your family members. It's a new game every time you play!
Slay vampires and other undead enemies with classic vampire hunting weapons such as a crucifix, holy water, flintlock guns, and wooden stakes!
A classic blend of survival horror and first person shooter gets you right in the middle of the action
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This is an amazing game. When you think about it there are not that many games about vampire slaying out there, especially not that many good ones. There are some mainstays like Castlevania, but what if you're not in the mood for that type of experience? Nosferatu is a very good change of pace from what's out there and indeed it feels like if the old Vampire Slayer Half-Life mod had a real story campaign. If that sounds like something you'd like to play, give this game a whirl.
I am not often let down by GOG games with 4+ stars. However, this game is so bad I don't want anyone else to suffer my fate.
I love horror games and try to buy these gems exclusively from GOG. Having enjoyed everything from The Cat Lady to F.E.A.R., this game looked right up my alley. After a little over two hours, though, I can't recommend this game for anything but nostalgia.
This game is not a good FPS. The hit boxes are atrocious, your bullets seemingly cannot travel more than 20 feet, the flintlock pistol somehow does more damage than your revolver, and the enemies are annoyingly repetitive. Sure, the ghouls (and zombies... and dogs... and bosses...) might look different than the vampires, but they all run blindly towards you and attempt to beat you to death with their three-pixel wide claws.
These recycled enemies randomly respawn in any and all rooms, constantly draining your limited ammo. This game makes you retrace your steps multiple times, and the designers apparently thought random enemies would make things more interesting. After killing the same ghoul for the fifth time on the fourth pass through the same room, believe me, it gets old.
Fortunately, the laws governing your bullets apply to the zombie musketmen as well, but once you get within 20 feet, you better hope you have a ranged weapon, because these crack shots will down you before you even think about pulling out your sword cane. And that's IF your ammo doesn't mysteriously disappear from your inventory while switching weapons.
The controls are sketchy, at best. Going over any bump or debris on the floor will often cause your camera to jerk uncontrollably upwards. Your character is not in good shape, as he can sprint for about 3 seconds. He must be very fat, as well, as melee enemies can deal damage from bizarrely long distances.
And I haven't even mentioned the nonexistent plot, the obscenely sub-par graphics, or the epileptic cutscenes. Don't buy this game, it's not worth it.
I'm finding this old game a lot of fun. The first thing I did was see if there was a way to set higher screen resolutions and I found a package of Noseferatu.exe files on the internet that allow you to play the in many different screen resolutions and aspect ratio's. You just copy the exe file for the resolution size you want and paste it into the main game directory and click overwite.
The game is just good old fashioned horror fun. It's like starring in your own old vampire horror movie. You wander around, collect weeapons, like a sword, guns, stakes etc., even the cross acrts as a weapon that scares away vampires. The main goal is to find your family members and bring them to safety. There's monsters and vampires that spawn, some are easy to kill and others can be quite difficult. Where items are located is random and their are other random factors to the game that add some replayability. Overall I am very much enjoying this game and it was worth every penny.
Timer = anti-exploration.
I have seen so many horror games assume that this is a good idea. "It adds urgency!" No, it makes players feel forced to rush the experience. That's the best way I can describe it, I feel like I'm speedrunning this whole thing. While it's not hard to do so, you still have to do so. I would have preffered much deeper, more well thought out combat mechanics for a methodacle experience.
"We haven't figured out this AI thing, let's add in escort missions!"
And low-and-behold, you get a dummy following you around who gets stuck in walls, waits if you run too far, and loves to get in the way of your line-of-fire.
Where do I even begin with this combat?
The flintlock pistol is by far the most satisfying, mostly because it kills things in one hit. But everything else is a mess of throwing things and Wii-mote swinging until it dies. It all feels really ungraceful; there's no rythm to it. Just mash-mash-mash because there's no dodging or weaving around any of this. Enemies are like industrial magnets with cheap shot attacks. And you can tell you're supposed to get hit, because it showers you with med-kits.
MY. FREAKING. EARS.
"How do I make sounds for a horror game? Oh, I'll make the player go deaf every time an enemy shows up!" I get it, it's classic horror music, but it's not "classic", it's outdated. Old horror movies blasted you with headache inducing noise. It's a shame because it occassionally has some atmospheric moments, making me keep toggling music on and off.
In conclusion:
Don't even bother purchasing. You're getting nothing out of this by playing it yourself. Just watch a video playthrough so that you can see how much time you're wasting with this. It's a game we WANT to be good, but it just isn't. Play Clive Barker's Undying instead. A much better experience for what is roughly the same concept.
Procedural generation doesn't mean your game is replayable or even worth playing in the first place.
This game is an absoutle bargin! Amazing atmosphere, Creepy music, Jump scares, and more!
Sure there are a few bugs like getting killed by a door, and taking damage by walking downstairs sometimes , but nothing too crazy, just keep saving as this game lets you do this anywhere! And best of all no tutorial needed just jump straight in and play it's that easy!
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