Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned
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| Release Date: | 1999-11-19[1] |
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| Latest Version: | 1.0 |
| Project Status: | N/A |
| Developer(s): | Sierra |
| Publisher: | Sierra Studios |
| Designer(s): | Jane Jensen |
| Source Available: | No |
| Category: | Game |
| Type: | Full |
| Genre: | Adventure |
| Theme(s): | Mystery, Supernatural, Suspense |
| Engine: | G-Engine |
| CP Scheme: | None |
| ESRB Rating: | Mature |
| Platform: | Windows 9x |
| Localization: | English, French, German, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish |
| Website: | www.sierra.com |
A.K.A.
- Gabriel Knight 3
- Gabriel Knight III
- Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned
- GK3
Description
Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned is the third installment of Jane Jensen's Gabriel Knight Series and the first to not use SCI.
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Synopsis
Gabriel Knight (voiced once again by Tim Curry) and Grace Nakimura become involved in a case to track down a kidnapped infant, becoming embroiled in a mystery that involves vampires, the Knights Templar, the Holy Grail, and Jesus within the Languedoc province of France; the story itself is inspired by a real-life treasure conspiracy associated to the area.
About
Following the previous installment, Sierra opted to render the third game in the series in 3D graphics, with a heightened level of puzzle solving and exploration. Work on development was delayed due to difficulties from the team in adapting to the new rendering engine for the game, with some puzzles that were designed found to be complicated and replaced with a number of new puzzles that Jensen did not approve of but could not have changed. Although Jensen had approved of the actor who portrayed Gabriel in the last game, it was decided that Curry should return, owing to her belief he provided the right personality for the character.
Gabriel Knight 3 was the last game to be made by Sierra prior to the crash of the adventure video game industry. Although not a commercial success, much like its predecessors, it received mainly positive reviews from critics. Praise was given to the story and its setting, along with one of the "best-designed game puzzles" in adventure games, while it was criticized for some of its poor dialogue, Curry's performance, and its transfer to 3D graphics.
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- Gabriel Knight Series
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- Gabriel Knight 3 on The Sierra Help Pages
- Gabriel Knight Series on The Sierra Help Pages
- Gabriel Knight 3 on Wikipedia
- Gabriel Knight Series on Wikipedia
- Gabriel Knight 3 on MobyGames
- Gabriel Knight Series on MobyGames
- Gabriel Knight 3 on IMDb
- www.sierrastudios.com/games/gk3/ (web archive)
- Sierra Release List
