Action Vault publie un article sur Call of Cthulhu écrit par l’un des designers du jeu. Il donne plusieurs exemples d’actions que l’on réalisera dans le jeu. Ça peut se résumer comme suit : un peu de bourrinage, un peu de résolution de puzzles, et pas mal de scripts.
The boat suddenly comes under assault from deadly fish-like creatures. Sailors storm onto the deck to avert the oncoming threat, only to be ripped apart effortlessly by their terrifying foes. Outnumbered and poorly armed, the player has to rely on steady aiming and quick reactions to stay alive.
However, Jack isn’t just left to shoot wildly for the duration of the massacre. Instead, a war-hardened seaman armed with a machine gun instructs the player what to do while keeping the monsters from entering the ship. He is given some ‘seemingly’ simple tasks, such as running down to the storage room to fetch some more ammunition, and later, he is asked to get some bandages from the infirmary. However, since nothing is ever that easy in Cthulhu, a freshly mutilated corpse greets Jack on his journey to the medical room.
Avec un peu de chance, le jeu sortira sur PC et Xbox en septembre 2004, avec quelques années de retard sur la date prévue.
