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Spotlight: Cursed Mountain (PC)
Cursed Mountain is a survival horror adventure video game for Wii and Windows-based PCs developed by Sproing Interactive, in collaboration with, and published by Deep Silver Vienna. It was released on August 25, 2009 in North America. The game focuses on a mountaineer searching for his lost brother in the Himalayas.
Cursed Mountain is set in the late 1980s, due to the lack of technology available in the time period. The entire course of the game takes place on a mountain in the Himalayas named Chomolonzo, which the natives call “the Sacred One”. The protagonist, Eric Simmons, is searching for his lost brother, Frank, who was hired by Edward Bennett to retrieve a sacred artifact called a terma. The goddess of the mountain became angry, and she bestowed a powerful curse upon Chomolonzo, trapping Frank and everyone who could not escape in time. The storyline of the game is heavily influenced by Buddhism and Tibetan folklore.
N-Zone magazine gave the game a score of 82%. Praise was given to the game’s pacing and atmosphere, with criticism aimed at the game’s sometimes sluggish controls. Blast magazine awarded the game a 7.7 out of 10, stating that the “story, setting and atmosphere are the keys to Cursed Mountain” while “the controls or pacing frustrate you a bit”. About.com was less enthusiastic, giving the game a 3 out of 5 and referring to the controls as “infuriating” and the finale as “laughably pretentious.” IGN and GameSpot both awarded the title a score of 7.5 praising the atmosphere and game play.
Koch, the owner of Deep Silver Vienna, closed the studio on January 30, 2010.
Spotlight:Resident Evil 5 (PC)
Resident Evil 5, known in Japan as Biohazard 5 (バイオハザード5?), is a third-person shooter survival horror video game developed and published by Capcom. The game is the seventh installment in the Resident Evil survival horror series, and was released on March 5, 2009 in Japan and on March 13, 2009 in North America and Europe for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. A Windows version of the game was released on September 15, 2009 in North America, September 17 in Japan and September 18 in Europe. Resident Evil 5 revolves around Chris Redfield and Sheva Alomar as they investigate a terrorist threat in Kijuju, a fictional town in Africa.
Within its first three weeks of release, the game sold over 2 million units worldwide and became the best-selling game of the franchise in the United Kingdom. As of September, 2009, Resident Evil 5 has sold 5 million copies worldwide since launch, becoming the best selling single title in the series.
