Impediment
I downloaded the PS3 demo last night and tis game is pretty friggin' sweet! The graphics are candy, the voice acting is spot on, and the script is even better!
The storyline is such:
Before Adam and Eve were created, God fashioned the Firstborn. Neither light nor dark, both terrible and beautiful to behold, it disturbed the Almighty who banished this flawed creation into the Abyss. There, it waited and watched until it was able to reach out with its power into our world. Seven Sumerian priests met its arrival and fought to contain it, successfully entombing the place of its escape within a great ziggurat. Ever since that time, there would always be a secret order that would train seven warriors to await the Firstborn's attempts to escape. They would always disappear into the ruined city of Al Khalid that had been built atop this bedrock of strife and somehow succeed in banishing the Firstborn back to the Abyss. However, none of these teams have ever returned from their mission.
The Firstborn would make four attempts to escape, each time taking back a piece of the earth to add to its domain. Fragments of time and space would form layers around Al Khalid, entrapping pieces of history within its walls from the time of the ancient Sumerians to World War II. Over time, other conquerors would arrive to claim the city as their own but eventually, the city was forgotten and buried by the sands around it.
The Department of Occult Warfare was created in the 1930s to combat the unexplained and meet Nazi Germany's own research into the paranormal. One of their most brilliant members, Arnold Leach, was recruited in 1962. However, his unscrupulous behavior and nature would eventually have him expelled. He was marked for assassination, and although the operation appeared to be successful, it seems he may have survived.
In Clive Barker's Jericho, players assume the role of the leader of the Jericho Squad – a seven man Special Forces strike team that protects U.S. interests against paranormal threats. Each member of the squad is an expert in modern warfare as well as their own different para-psychological disciplines, including clairvoyance, alchemy, blood magic, exorcism, etc.
Players must lead the Jericho Squad into the flaming ruins of the city, moving block by block towards the dimensional rift tearing away at its heart. Along the way, they encounter the horrific armies of hellish denizens that now rule the city and corrupt everything they touch. As players incrementally approach the source of evil, they will have to rely less and less on traditional weapons and instead focus on the combined psychic talents of the Jericho Squad.
Team members:
Capt. Devin Ross – the protagonist, Jericho Squad captain, team telepath and healer.
Father Paul Rawlings – the dual-pistol-wielding priest and exorcist
Sgt. Frank Delgado – a minigun-wielding alchemist and pyromancer with fire-demon in right arm.
Lt. Abigail Black – a telekinetic sniper who can control bullets in mid-flight.
Sgt. Billie Church – a ninja-esque blood mage who uses her own blood to cast spells and wards.
Capt. Xavier Jones – a seer who uses astral projection for reconnaissance and possibly even possession of enemies.
Cpl. Simone Cole – the Jericho Squad's reality hacker who can alter time and teleport supplies and personnel.
Check out the footage from the introduction of the demo:
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The storyline is such:
Before Adam and Eve were created, God fashioned the Firstborn. Neither light nor dark, both terrible and beautiful to behold, it disturbed the Almighty who banished this flawed creation into the Abyss. There, it waited and watched until it was able to reach out with its power into our world. Seven Sumerian priests met its arrival and fought to contain it, successfully entombing the place of its escape within a great ziggurat. Ever since that time, there would always be a secret order that would train seven warriors to await the Firstborn's attempts to escape. They would always disappear into the ruined city of Al Khalid that had been built atop this bedrock of strife and somehow succeed in banishing the Firstborn back to the Abyss. However, none of these teams have ever returned from their mission.
The Firstborn would make four attempts to escape, each time taking back a piece of the earth to add to its domain. Fragments of time and space would form layers around Al Khalid, entrapping pieces of history within its walls from the time of the ancient Sumerians to World War II. Over time, other conquerors would arrive to claim the city as their own but eventually, the city was forgotten and buried by the sands around it.
The Department of Occult Warfare was created in the 1930s to combat the unexplained and meet Nazi Germany's own research into the paranormal. One of their most brilliant members, Arnold Leach, was recruited in 1962. However, his unscrupulous behavior and nature would eventually have him expelled. He was marked for assassination, and although the operation appeared to be successful, it seems he may have survived.
In Clive Barker's Jericho, players assume the role of the leader of the Jericho Squad – a seven man Special Forces strike team that protects U.S. interests against paranormal threats. Each member of the squad is an expert in modern warfare as well as their own different para-psychological disciplines, including clairvoyance, alchemy, blood magic, exorcism, etc.
Players must lead the Jericho Squad into the flaming ruins of the city, moving block by block towards the dimensional rift tearing away at its heart. Along the way, they encounter the horrific armies of hellish denizens that now rule the city and corrupt everything they touch. As players incrementally approach the source of evil, they will have to rely less and less on traditional weapons and instead focus on the combined psychic talents of the Jericho Squad.
Team members:
Capt. Devin Ross – the protagonist, Jericho Squad captain, team telepath and healer.
Father Paul Rawlings – the dual-pistol-wielding priest and exorcist
Sgt. Frank Delgado – a minigun-wielding alchemist and pyromancer with fire-demon in right arm.
Lt. Abigail Black – a telekinetic sniper who can control bullets in mid-flight.
Sgt. Billie Church – a ninja-esque blood mage who uses her own blood to cast spells and wards.
Capt. Xavier Jones – a seer who uses astral projection for reconnaissance and possibly even possession of enemies.
Cpl. Simone Cole – the Jericho Squad's reality hacker who can alter time and teleport supplies and personnel.
Check out the footage from the introduction of the demo:
--WKcL8bO5E
i want this game tho, looks sweet as you say, horror is fun, especially when its gory, grotesque clive horror 