Description
Blair Witch, Volume I: Rustin Parr, the first of three games based on Blair Witch folklore, takes its name from a character mentioned only briefly in the movie. Parr was arrested for the ritualistic murders of seven children in 1941. You play as Elspeth "Doc" Holliday, an agent for a secret government agency called "Spookhouse". She is dispatched to Burkittsville, Maryland weeks after Parr's execution to see if there is any truth to the claims of supernatural forces at work there.
By day Elspeth will talk to the locals, attempting to befriend them and get any useful information about the investigation out of them. At night she will travel through the expansive woods surrounding Burkittsville, dispatching a never ending swarm of monsters as she searches for more clues as to the source of the aberrations. As an agent of Spookhouse Elspeth has access to a wide range of advanced weaponry that ghosts and monsters are vulnerable to, but often it is better to run than fight.
Alternate Titles
- "Blair Witch: Czesc Pierwsza: Rustin Parr" -- Polish title
- "A Bruxa de Blair, Volume 1: Rustin Parr" -- Brazilian title
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Trivia
Continuity errors
When you finally meet up with Robin Weaver, she's holding a civil war uniform which she says belonged to a man named Lazarus (the protagonist of
Blair Witch, Volume II: The Legend of Coffin Rock). However, if you play
Blair Witch II, Lazarus' uniform is destroyed through burning by Weaver's granny near the beginning of the game because it was caked with blood (not to mention 20 years old). So much for continuity.
Engine
Well before the game's release, there were all sorts of interesting bits of stuff floating arount the internet. One item was that the game would be utilizing the
Unreal engine. This is, and always was, completely false. The game does, however, utilize the engine from
Nocturne.
Lens flare effect
The back cover of the box and the CD case has a screenshot showing off the lens flare effect from the flashlight, one of the features which distinguished the Nocturne engine. However in the actual game the lens flare effect is disabled, considerably watering down the flashlight beam's appearance. It is possible to re-enable it by editing the game's .ini file, but the Terminal Reality tech support advise against it for stability reasons, stating it could crash your game, erase your save files, and even possibly wipe your BIOS (although the last one's a bit of a stretch).
Nocturne
Blair Witch, Volume I is (for all intents and purposes)
Nocturne Act V. "Doc" Holliday is in the starring role with the Stranger as a supporting character and cameos by Svetlana, Col Hapscomb, and the Spookhouse staff.
References
In Burkittsville's general store, a few interesting boxes can be seen on top of a counter. These are two of Terminal Reality's games;
Nocturne and
Fly!.
Awards
- GameSpy
- 2000 – Special Award for Budget Gaming
Information contributed by
Alan Chan,
ClydeFrog,
Paul Budd and
re_foldThis entry to the MobyGames database was contributed by
Andrew Hartnett (2267) on Oct 18, 2000.
