In truth, the game really doesn’t live up to its “horror” classification, nor does it warrant playing in the dark. The sights and sounds are less consistently menacing in Blair Witch 2, and you will not be jumping out of your chair very often.

Where the first installment excelled in atmosphere, this one excels in story. As if in answer to the prayers of Doc Holliday herself, you will find ammunition and healing sticks scattered about. Although there is one maze-like area, it will be a cake-walk for those who survived the twisting and turning of the Blair Witch 1 forest. You still spend a lot of time in the woods, but you will rarely walk the same path twice. In a welcome departure from the previous game, you will not need a compass to travel through Blair Witch 2. You visit only a small portion of the town and, as you flip between past and present, the landmarks change accordingly. The scenery tends to be drearyâ€”mist and fog in a landscape of grays and browns. Like Blair Witch 1, this game is played from a third person perspective with beautifully done 3D graphics with exceptional lighting and shadowing.

The game continues with two separate, but parallel stories: Lazarus in the present (circa 1886) interspersed with flashbacks of his Civil War experiences. As he helps search for a lost child, a series of flashbacks reveal that he has explored the area before, as a Union Army soldier, in 1863. Suffering from amnesia, he is christened “Lazarus” by the locals. The story opens with an injured soldier awakening near Burkittsville, Maryland around that time. The interface and game controls are virtually unchanged, as is the perpetually shifting Alone in the Dark camera.īlair Witch 2 opens with a vignette from the film that describes a ritual murder that occurred at Coffin Rock in the late 1800s. Developed by Human Head Studios and using the old Nocturne engine, it has the same look and feel as Terminal Reality’s Blair Witch Volume 1: Rustin Parr. Blair Witch Volume 2: The Legend of Coffin Rock is the middle title in a trilogy based on The Blair Witch Project mythology. The second Blair Witch game is very similar to the first one.

Blair Witch: Volume II – The Legend of Coffin Rock

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