The Dark Eye

The Dark Eye is a computer game of the horror genre, released in 1995 for the PC by now-defunct software company inSCAPE. Upon its release, the game attracted little attention from either critics or consumers, though it has received some attention since. The game featured combined 3-D graphics, clay animation and video segments. With its unconventional interface, storyline, and characters, the game's peculiarity became its selling point. The characters are largely lifelike in appearance except for their clay-modeled faces, which are often distorted or feature grotesquely exaggerated features. This near-realism, sometimes referred to as the Uncanny Valley, contributed to the game's ambience of unease and anxiety. Also notable was the use of author William S. Burroughs as a voice actor: Burroughs provided not only the voice for the character of Edwin, but also voiceovers of a short slide-show sequences illustrating "The Masque of the Red Death". There is a fifth story, which is not... full article at wikipedia