Arcatera: The Dark Brotherhood - PC

Arcatera: The Dark Brotherhood is a point & click adventure game set in the heroic-fantasy world of Arcatera. It is based on a complex criminal investigation where the hero (or a party of up to 4 characters) has only 3 weeks (in-game time) to counter the evil deeds of a satanic gang that is trying to overthrow the Prince of the city and bring rampage over its inhabitants. In simple terms, save Arcatera, Senora, and find the love of your life to succeed.

As a point and click role playing game, you would expect there to be a lot of heavy dialogue. Not the case here, as the majority of Arcatera is shown through the use of nicely acted speech and stunning video footage. This helps to reduce the strain on the brain a little. In game graphics are presented in the form of beautifully pre-rendered backdrops, in which you must guide your animated 2-dimensional hero to his destiny.

Thanks to a little bit of clever thinking from the developers, the use of 3D has been sacrificed to create what is a huge, beautiful game that will keep you engrossed for quite some time.
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