Dr. Joan Aiken had discovered a way to inject a special serum into the human brain, which will grant this human powerful psychic abilities, known as "talents". Since only little babies were able to absorb the serum properly, it was injected to twin brothers, Cain and Abel, in a scientific project called "Children of Tomorrow".

When they grew up, the children took different paths. Cain joined a special law enforcement group, while Abel walked away and stepped into the world of crime. Years later, a radical organization known as Eye of Ra emerges, with the only goal to sabotage Children of Tomorrow project - according to them for ethical reasons. Cain's first mission is to infiltrate their headquarters and deal with their leader.

Sanity is an action game with puzzle-solving elements. There is also a role-playing element present in card-collecting and upgrading the talents. The game is heavy on combat, which is mostly ranged, involving Cain either shooting or using the psychic powers. The talents are classified into groups, such as Fire, Sun, Illusion, Science, Demonology, etc. In each group, there are many talents Cain can learn, which range from offensive and supporting combat spells to abilities needed to solve puzzles (such as levitating, pushing heavy objects, etc.). The game has fully 3D graphics with top-down perspective, similarly to Metal Gear Solid.

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Alternate Titles

"Aiken's Artifact" -- European title

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The Press Says

PC Gamer (Netherlands)	Nov, 2000	84 out of 100	84
GameZone	Nov 03, 2000	8.4 out of 10	84
IGN	Sep 25, 2000	8.3 out of 10	83
Electric Games	Nov 01, 2000		80
Techtite	2000		80
PC Gameplay (Benelux)	Oct, 2000	78 out of 100	78
Yiya	Oct 22, 2001	B	75
PC Games (Germany)	Mar 07, 2001	69 out of 100	69
Svenska PC Games	Jan, 2001	6 out of 10	60
Just Adventure	2000	C	50

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Trivia

Users of Nvidia graphics cards will find themselves unable to load this game, as it always locks up at the level-loading screen while "processing world geometry". A fix for this problem does exist, just enable the Nvidia logo to display during gameplay in the Display Settings of your control panel (found in the advanced properties, additional properties of your 3d graphics card). It's anybody's guess why this should work, but it does.

This unorthodox but functional solution can be attributed to "winterfat" on the Monolith technical difficulties board.

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This entry to the MobyGames database was contributed by jeff reitman (55) on Oct 07, 2000.