The third game in the series takes Gabriel Knight, the former owner of a book store in New Orleans, and now a Schattenjäger ("shadow hunter") living in a castle in Bavaria, to Rennes-le-Chateau, a quiet town in Southern France. Gabriel and his assistant Grace Nakimura investigate the kidnapping of a baby: the son of Prince James of Albany was taken away, and the trace leads to Rennes-le-Chateau. While exploring the town and its surroundings and getting acquainted with the unusual history of the place, Gabriel and Grace realize that supernatural beings are pulling the strings behind the stage, and become involved in a mystery with a religious background dating back to the very beginnings of Christianity.

Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned is a 3D adventure game. Playing as Gabriel or Grace, the player navigates the characters through fully 3D environments, which can also be viewed and explored from first-person perspective using the "camera" option. The player interacts with people and objects by clicking on them and then selecting one of the available actions. There are many kinds of puzzles in the game: traditional inventory-based ones, detective investigation, as well as complex puzzles based on the player's knowledge and understanding of the game's lore.

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Alternate Titles

"狩魔獵人3：聖魔血祭" -- Taiwan spelling
"狩魔猎人3" -- Chinese spelling (simplified)
"Гэбриэл Найт 3: В поисках Грааля" -- Russian spelling
"GK3" -- Common abbreviation
"Gabriel Knight 3: Testamento del Diablo" -- Spanish title
"Gabriel Knight 3: Sangue Profano" -- Brazilian title
"Gabriel Knight 3: Krew Świętych, Krew Potępionych" -- Polish title
"Gabriel Knight 3: Il Mistero di Rennes-Le-Château, Il Mistero Macchiato di Sangue" -- Italian title
"Gabriel Knight 3: Enigme en Pays Cathare" -- French title
"Gabriel Knight 3: Blut der Heiligen, Blut der Verdammten" -- German title

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Part of the Following Groups

Merchant	Title	Platform	Price
	Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned	Windows	$1.00
	Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers		$5.99
	Gabriel Knight 2: The Beast Within		$5.99
	Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned		$5.99
	Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned
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User Reviews

Can you say 'cat mustache'?	YID YANG (162354)
Another kickass GK game which unfortunately tones down the terror in favor of the "edutaiment" value....blah!	Zovni (9429)
A flawed classic	jTrippy (63)
"I didn't sleep for four days playing this game....."	Andy Roark (253)
Gabriel Knight returns in his last adventure for now	Katakis (37458)	unrated
Millennium Mystery	MAT (53335)

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The Press Says

Daily Radar	1999		100
Adventure Lantern	Aug, 2006	95 out of 100	95
Game Over Online	Dec 30, 1999	92 out of 100	92
Just Adventure	2002	A-	91
G4 TV: The Electric Playground	Apr 24, 2004	9 out of 10	90
Absolute Games (AG.ru)	Dec 03, 1999	90 out of 100	90
Svenska PC Gamer	Jan, 2000	85 out of 100	85
Adventure Gamers	Jan 30, 2004		80
GamesAreFun.com (GAF)	Mar 28, 2004	8 out of 10	80
GameStar (Germany)	Dec, 1999	75 out of 100	75

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Forums

Topic	# Posts	Last Post
Best adventure series ever.	7	YID YANG (162354) Nov 07, 2011
Still The Greatest	9	St. Martyne (3562) Feb 23, 2009
And that f'ing puzzle is not only stupid ...	9	Dr. M. "Schadenfreude" Von Katze (588) Oct 02, 2007

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Trivia

Grace now has a computer that keeps all the shadow hunter's data and is called SIDNEY. The thing is, that when you enter "Gabriel Knight 4" as a topic of research, you get a ghost story. Jane Jensen affirmed that if GK4 ever gets out, as a book or a game, it will be about ghosts.

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This entry to the MobyGames database was contributed by Andy Roark (253) on Nov 27, 1999.