Blair Witch Episode 3: Elly Kedward 1786

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• ASIN: B00004U8KN
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: November 25, 2000
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #35,639 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

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Elly Kedward is at the heart of the legend spun by the horror film The Blair Witch Project. Soon after she was accused of witchcraft and banished from the Blair Township, children started disappearing. The frightened townsfolk quickly left Blair to settle in Burkittsville. You'll play as Jonathan Pyre, the town's former pastor, who has become its chief witch hunter. And to fight a power this evil, you're going to need all the magic you can acquire.

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19 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Of The Blair Witch Trilogy., December 24, 2000

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Ertan Ergil (Ankara, Siteler Turkey) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Blair Witch Episode 3: Elly Kedward 1786 (CD-ROM)

Blair Witch Volume Three is an excellent game.First of all its graphs are so well.It has writen with Nocturne Motor like the previous ones , the clothes in the game gives the player that they are real clothes also the lighting and colors are wonderful.Then the sound fx are so realistic and based on enviromental sounds. Besides the atmosphere is very powerful it takes the gamer inside the game , you play like you are in the game.Also the characters are well designed , but the most impressive features are the 3D effects in the game , for example the pointer that shaped as pentegram , you can see movings inside the laser pointers while you way it to your screen.Besides the playing of the game is not too hard , it is based on spell and weapon based combat style.The story is well written it goes so fastly and understandable .Everything in this game is wonderful.I recommend The Blair Witch Volume Three for everyone.

9 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars elly kedward, August 22, 2000

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Jimmy (usa) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Blair Witch Episode 3: Elly Kedward 1786 (CD-ROM)

The first in the series, "Rustin Parr" is based on the Nocturne game. The second is not and so is this. If you are looking for more of a action/horror, get the first one. The second and third are more of a info product that explores the legend. I have had a sneak prevue of the games and nocturne and by far they are all good in their style. The Rustin Parr is by far my favorite due to the lighting, shadows and fog and the sharpness of the graphics and speech. The second and third are scary, they have a creepy tone to them that many fans will love exploring and finding evidence, kinda like X files stuff. The series are set out in September and will be excellent fun.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Definitely a Bad Witch, February 28, 2009

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Michael J. Tresca "Talien" (Fairfield, CT USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Blair Witch Episode 3: Elly Kedward 1786 (CD-ROM)

An old woman, Elly Kedward, lures several local children into her house and draws their blood. The Blair Township parents discover her crime, find her guilty of witchcraft and bind her to a wheelbarrow in the woods, leaving her for dead in the middle of a particularly harsh winter. In November, on the night of the first snowfall, the daughter of the town magistrate vanishes. A week later, Kedward's main accuser disappears. By winter's end, over half the town's children vanish, including all of her accusers. Enter our hero, Jonathan Prye.

The core of the game is intriguing enough: Jonathan is a man tortured by his own lack of faith. Why, we're not entirely sure. He treads the path between Christianity and Shamanism to defeat the forces of evil. The game seems to imply that Elly Kedward is innocent and the murders are caused by a demon known as Hecatomix. As Asgaya Gigagei, Prye's shaman tutor explains: "The White Man did not respect Hecatomix and make sacrifices to him, so now he is so angry he destroys all human children to destroy the future of civilization." Now, Prye must rescue the children and defeat the demons by faith and firearm.

The game's storyline seems forced as Prye cannot leave Blair until he speaks to certain individuals. Conversely, if he doesn't receive the Burning Cross weapon before entering Elizabeth Styler's house, he is guaranteed to die in a death trap against a demon immune to normal weapons. Even more annoying is the long, circuitous travels throughout the Blair Township woods. This is presumably meant to evoke the spookiness of the woods in the original movie but the effect instead only causes long, boring periods of Prye running around lost.

Since Prye has a map and, unlike the characters in the movie is far too intelligent to kick it into the river, the "lost in the woods" effect is lost on the player. Since the game takes place in the same geographical environment as the movie, the same criticism applies - if you're lost in the woods, why not just follow the river out? Prye can't do that either since an invisible barrier prevents travel along the river's length.

There are several logic flaws that severely diminish the game's storyline. The zombies inexplicably possess vials of health and mana and carry ammo, all of which Prye uses to keep him alive and weapons blazing. This encourages "farming" the zombies for survival and, since they move so slowly, he can simply run past them. In fact, he's encouraged to run just about everywhere, which seems a bit undignified for a former minister.

Speaking of undignified, after Prye encounters the Native American shaman known as Asgaya, he rejects his pagan philosophy despite blowing up zombies and being attacked by an undead priest with a cross - Jonathan is obviously a hard man to convince. Prye then faces off against a rather benevolent Kedward demon who decides against tearing the faithless minister's soul apart and, instead, merely gives him a good spanking for "not being a believer" and "being filled with fear." This is tantamount to the demon wearing a "Kill Me, I'm an Idiot" sign on his head. Of course, Prye then returns to the shaman, learns how to defeat the demon and obliges the suicidal fiend with a few well-placed blasts from a rather mundane gun.

The game suffers from all the control and perspective flaws found in so many horror shoot-em-ups. The cameras are in frozen positions that can block combat between Prye and zombies. Using the keyboard and the mouse together is a challenge, as the left and right arrow keys cause Prye to strafe rather than turn. With auto-targeting (a very necessary feature to compensate for the poor controls), the only thing you need worry about is backing up as you repeatedly click the left-mouse button to fire. Almost no skill is involved in killing anything, including the bosses, and it's possible to stand still and blaze away at attackers until they drop with minimal health loss.

The Blair Witch Volume III: The Elly Kedward Tale could have been a great game. Instead, it's merely a mediocre entry into the horror game genre.