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The strike is instantly triggered but you must wait four turns note three if you bought the elite pigeon for the pigeon to come back and be able to request another. Death from Above: You can send a homing pigeon to request an artillery strike on a portion of the field.Daylight Horror: Considering how the setting is lit, it seems that most of the outside levels happen during day.Dark World: Hill's nightmares sequences seem to be set in a dark world variant of the front.

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Cosmetic Award: The Steam version of the game includes a whole load of achievements, including a series of achievements for finishing each mission (one achievement for each mission), another series for finishing each mission with a minimum score, one for finishing the whole campaign in the hard difficulty mode, one for finishing the campaign without losing any Investigator, etc, one for killing 25 Reanimates, etc.

Cool Guns: Mauser C96, Webley, Lee-Enfield, Lewis Gun.

Choice of Two Weapons: Each character can carry two weapons in the same time, in any combination of firearms, mêlée weapons, offensive spells, or homing pigeons.

Such weapon really existed during the era.

Carry a Big Stick: The Trench Club, a mêlée weapon which is basically an improvised modern version of a spiked mace.

Breaking the Fourth Wall: Each time the mission involves a timed objective, the dialogs (in-character) will refer to this as "x turns" instead of using more usual time units.

Bottomless Magazines: Each firearm has unlimited ammunition with no magazines at all.

It is the weakest mêlée weapon of the game.

The weapon is described as such but is used by hand and not on the tip of a rifle. Placing your soldiers in order to lure enemies through gas filled areas is actually a valid strategy.

Artificial Stupidity: Enemies are usually hurt by mustard gas filled area, but it doesn't prevent the AI to send them through those areas (they even can kill themselves this way).

Arbitrary Gun Power: For some reason, shooting with the Mauser C96 requires more Action Points than with the Webley, despite them being respectively a semi-automatic pistol and a revolver.

Arbitrary Headcount Limit : No more than six party members.

Anyone Can Die: Starting party members lose their Hero Must Survive status while the plot progresses, although it is actually possible to finish the campaign without losing any of them.

Regaining Sanity requires a skill named "Psychoanalysis", which requires to use either Interpretation of Dreams or Studies in Hysteria, two books written by Freud.Gold, the therapist of the party, was a student of Sigmund Freud.Eliot's The Waste Land.Ĭall of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land provides examples of the following tropes: The game is not supposed to be a Crossover between Cthulhu Mythos and T. It should appeal to those of high intellect who read the works of Lovecraft in spite of the many short comings in literary style ( I love the themes but how many times can a man us "cyclopean" or "unspeakable, unnamable" "eldritch" "ichor" laden horrors and in every tale?) Better writers then me have noted that his style is ponderous yet his influence and contributions to his genre cannot be missed.For more tropes about the settings, see also Cthulhu Mythos, Call of Cthulhu, and World War I. The effects are what they are but even a stop motion of Mighty Cthulhu and classic film tricks don't take away from the challenge, a film adaptation of Lovecraft that is true, this is it. Of course those jaded folks who need their horror served up with heaps of blood, guts and slick CGI effects are in for a disappointment. What could have been its down fall make sit work. Being a huge Lovecraft fan and been very disappointed in just about every film adaptation of his works I skeptically found this gem a refreshing change. It seems that too many people have little or no appreciation for the art of film making and its history.