Synopsis
On September 6, 1915, Detective Jack Walters is summoned to a decrepit manor house in Boston, Massachusetts. The manor is inhabited by a small bizarre cult called the Fellowship of the Yith, led by one Victor Holt, who has asked specifically for Walters to come and talk to him. Taking cover from an ensuing firefight, Jack finds himself separated from the police and trapped inside the mansion, with no option but to investigate. When the rest of the police finally break in, they find the cultists dead by mass suicide and Walters apparently insane. He is committed to Arkham Asylum, where he stays for several years.
In 1928, Walters is released and becomes as a private detective. He takes up a missing person case at Innsmouth, a strange and xenophobic coastal town. After asking the rude locals about the disappearance of Brian Burnham, he stays a night at the local hotel, where he barely escapes an attempt to murder him. From that point forward, he is forced to sneak through the town, avoiding the murderous patrols of the townsfolk. He meets undercover agent Lucas Mackey, who tells him that the town is under government investigation. Jack finds Brian Burnham and his girlfriend Ruth, but their car crashes when they attempt to escape Innsmouth, killing both of them and injuring Jack (it is left unknown if Ruth was really killed or not).
Jack recovers from the incident and, following a brutal interrogation, he is taken in by the FBI, personally led by J. Edgar Hoover. On September 8, Jack helps Hoover and the FBI raid the Marsh Gold Refinery, where he is attacked by an ancient creature known as a Shoggoth and uncovers a Cthulhu shrine. The refinery is then demolished through the use of explosives.
Following the refinery raid, a combined land-and-sea assault by the U.S. government forces attacks Innsmouth on September 9. The only thing that proved problematic was the headquarters of the Esoteric Order of Dagon, a religious organization centered on two undersea demigods and Cthulhu that holds the whole town under its grip. The building proved unbreachable for the Coast Guard and the Marines, but Jack finds a way in through an old smuggling entrance (guarded by a star-spawn of Cthulhu). Inside, Jack frees Agent Mackey and puts down the magical shield protecting the building. After discovering a secret chamber, he falls through the floor of a tunnel which leads into the sea.
Jack is rescued by the USS Urania, a Coast Guard cutter which is part of a group heading to Devil's Reef on September 10, following up on a lead provided by the FBI. On the way there, wizards on the reef summon powerful tidal waves to destroy the fleet, but Jack commandeers the ship's cannon and kills them. Then, the Deep Ones launch a massive attack on the Urania, killing most of the crew and disabling the engines. Walters manages to reactivate the engine only to have Father Dagon himself attack him on the bow; Walters manages to defeat the demigod with the cannon, but not before it causes the Urania to sink. Jack survives the encounter and finds himself on Devil's Reef. On Devil's Reef, Jack discovers old smuggling tunnels beneath the seabed and finds a tunnel leading to the underwater city of Y'ha-nthlei.
The city is found to be located below Devil's Reef and is the home of the Deep Ones and members of the Order. The Navy submarines plan to torpedo Y'ha-nthlei, but are stopped by a magical barrier protecting the city. The Temple of Dagon is the source of the barrier, but the entrance is sealed off in anticipation of invasion. Walters finds another way in through ancient tunnels feared by the Deep Ones at the bottom of the city's foundations. Apparently, this passage, which leads to the temple, is the ancient prison of the flying polyps, the enemy of the Great Race of Yith. Jack manages to defeat them with the help of an Yithian energy weapon he found earlier. Jack enters the Temple of Dagon and kills Mother Hydra (whose song is generating the barrier) with the help of some mind-controlled Deep Ones. With the barrier gone, the submarines attack the city, while Jack escapes through a portal leading back to the Order's headquarters.
In the end, it is revealed that a Yithian swapped minds with Jack Walter's father during the moment of Jack's conception. In flesh, Jack Walters is human, but he inherited Yithian psychic powers, which is the reason for the cultists' interest in him. Confined back in the asylum, the insane Jack hangs himself, unable to handle the reality of himself and what he has witnessed.
System Requirement
- Windows XP
- Dual Core 2GHz or Athlon 2GHz
- 1GB memory
- 8GB free disk space
- 256MB graphic card
- DirectX 9
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