Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land

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Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land
Developer(s)Red Wasp Design
Publisher(s)Red Wasp Design
Platform(s)iOS, Microsoft Windows, Android
ReleaseiOS
  • WW: January 30, 2012
Microsoft Windows
  • WW: May 5, 2012
Android
  • WW: July 6, 2013
Genre(s)Tactical role-playing
Mode(s)Single-player

Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land is a Lovecraftian horror tactical role-playing game developed by British studio Red Wasp Design in conjunction with Chaosium.[1] The game was released in 2012, for iOS in January,[2] for PC in May,[3] and for Android in June.[4]

The Wasted Land is based on the works of

German army
to build an army of re-animated corpses from the dead of the conflict.

Gameplay

The game is a mixture of a

action point
system combined with aspects of the stats system from the paper version of Call of Cthulhu.

Plot

In 1915, Professor Brightmeer is called by a shady part of

Herbert West
(the re-animator) combined with arcane mythos magic to build an undead army from the victims of the war.

The Captain and the Professor track Kaul across the trench lines, fighting

Dark Young and hybrid Star Spawn of Cthulhu
. They eventually track Kaul to his underground lab where he has built a machine to generate monsters for Germany, also to power a ritual to summon a full Star Spawn. A larger plot is revealed as the cult seeks to eliminate humanity from Earth to clear it for a new hybrid species of part human, part Star Spawn. The ritual goes forward, and the Star Spawn appears. The player is victorious if the Star Spawn is defeated.

Development

The development of the game was influenced heavily by both Lovecraft's original writings and the Call of Cthulhu RPG. The game's designer, Tomas Rawlings, commented in an interview: "What lifted Lovecraft's work above much of that written by his contemporaries was that he managed to tap into the very human desire we have to explore our own mortality. [...] I had talked to Chaosium about doing something in video games on a number of occasions but it never seemed to happen for one reason or another. Then, the stars aligned last year, and I found myself in a position to do a mobile adaptation of Call of Cthulhu."[6] The game took around a year to develop, though it was initially announced on 10 May 2011,[7] with SD screenshots[8] then HD screenshots later released.[9]

Reception

The game has been generally well received. For example,

Wired's GeekDad decision to release the review to coincide with the 75th anniversary of his death; "And I cannot think of a better way to celebrate his death — it is Lovecraft after all — than losing your mind playing Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land."[14] ComboCaster gave the game 6.8 out of 10, praising the setting and Lovecraft inspiration [15]

References

  1. ^ "CALL OF CTHULHU: THE WASTED LAND Launches!(Chaosium's announcement)". 2012-01-30. Archived from the original on 2013-01-26. Retrieved 2012-03-19.
  2. ^ "The Stars are Right as 'Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land' Launches! (Developer's announcement)". 2012-01-30. Archived from the original on 2012-11-15. Retrieved 2012-03-19.
  3. ^ "'Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land' Now Out on AppUp Center, Insanity to follow (Developer's announcement)". 2012-05-06. Archived from the original on 2012-11-15. Retrieved 2012-05-11.
  4. ^ "'Droid Ftaghn! 'Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land' Launched on Android (Developer's announcement)". 2012-06-08. Archived from the original on 2013-01-18. Retrieved 2012-06-09.
  5. ^ "Slide To Play Q and A: Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land". 2012-11-20. Archived from the original on 2011-10-22. Retrieved 2012-03-19.
  6. ^ "The Making of Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land (via Game Dev Story)". Archived from the original on 2013-07-01. Retrieved 2011-06-09.
  7. ^ "Press Release: Call of Cthulhu Spawns on Mobile". 2012-11-20. Archived from the original on 2013-01-26. Retrieved 2011-05-10.
  8. ^ "Call of Cthulhu Screenshots and Level-Pan Video Released!". 2011-08-26. Archived from the original on 2013-01-26. Retrieved 2011-05-10.
  9. ^ "'Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land' Screenshots HD Released, Launch Date Announced as 30th January 2012". 2011-12-17. Archived from the original on 2013-01-26. Retrieved 2011-05-10.
  10. CBS Interactive. Archived
    from the original on July 19, 2018. Retrieved June 14, 2018.
  11. ^ Stuart, Keith (2012-03-14). "Six smartphone games you MUST download today". The Guardian. London. Archived from the original on 2015-10-04. Retrieved 2012-03-22.
  12. ^ "Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land Review". 2012-03-13. Archived from the original on March 18, 2012. Retrieved 2012-03-22.
  13. ^ "Version 1.22 is out now!". 2012-03-06. Archived from the original on 2016-02-03. Retrieved 2012-03-22.
  14. ^ CranfordTeague, Jason (2012-03-15). "You'll Go Mad Playing Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land". Wired. Archived from the original on 2012-11-08. Retrieved 2012-03-22.
  15. ^ "Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land Review". Archived from the original on 2015-09-15. Retrieved 2015-09-12.

External links

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