Author and creator of the Gabriel Knight series Jane Jensen has a new
mystery in Gabriel Knight III: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned. Based on
a real-life mystery, the game is set in a small village in France by the name of
Rennes-le-Chateau. The mystery starts when Gabriel Knight and his companion Grace Nakamura
are invited to the home of a dethroned royal scion of France. You are given a job once you
arrive of not solving a great mystery or tackling unsurmountable odds, but of babysitting
the royal scion's new infant son. This little baby becomes more of a problem than you
originally anticipated however once a dark secret is revealed to you which has haunted the
Prince's family for generations. Many would have the Prince's son for other means or just
have him wind up dead as their are many not in particular favor of the Prince himself.
Despite your efforts to guard the boy, he is kidnapped right from underneath you on the
very first night you are to be watching him. Gabriel, of course, takes off after the
kidnappers only to find himself lost in the little European village of Rennes-le-Chateau,
and so the game (& mystery) begins.
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Knight III will have you interact with over 20 unique, 3D-animated characters in
real-time situations which will take place in a 3D virtual world. Throughout the game you
will have to solve many intricate puzzles and mysteries which not only tie into the story
line, but open up clues into deeper mysteries. Along the way you will uncover a real-life
mystery involving the Knights Templar, the Holy Grail, a secret society of vampires and
the lost treasure of Rennes-le-Chateau. Gameplay will be completed by using both Gabriel
and Grace to solve mysteries and you'll also be able to manipulate the camera to any angle
you wish in Gabriel III's completely 3D environment. Voice-actors such as Tim
Curry (as the voice of Gabriel Knight) will grace the game's 3D sound, as
Direct3D-compatible graphics cards will allow for 16-bit color and dynamic colored
lighting and shading. Gabriel Knight III needs atleast a Pentium 166 with 32MB of
RAM, a 4X CD-ROM and running Windows 95 or 98 to run.
Sierra Studios' Official Gabriel Knight III site