Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned (Windows)

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Description

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

Part of the Following Groups

• Gabriel Knight series
• Physical Bonus Content: Comic
• Setting: Country - France
• Theme: Holy Grail
• Theme: Vampires

User Reviews

Can you say 'cat mustache'?	Unicorn Lynx (181678)
Gabriel Knight returns in his last adventure for now	Katakis | カタキス (41060)	unrated
Millennium Mystery	MAT (200828)
A flawed classic	jTrippy (63)
Another kickass GK game which unfortunately tones down the terror in favor of the "edutaiment" value....blah!	Zovni (10638)
Not The Game, but still a pretty good one	J32ME_4ever (10)
"I didn't sleep for four days playing this game....."	Andy Roark (274)

Critic Reviews

Just Adventure	Sep 24, 2002	A	100
Gameplay (Benelux)	Nov 29, 1999	92 out of 100	92
Power Play	Dec, 1999	83 out of 100	83
PC Games (Germany)	Dec, 2000	80 out of 100	80
PC Player (Germany)	Jan, 2000	80 out of 100	80
GamesAreFun.com (GAF)	Mar 28, 2004	8 out of 10	80
GameStar (Germany)	Dec, 1999	75 out of 100	75
Adrenaline Vault, The (AVault)	Dec 11, 1999		70
Eurogamer.net (UK)	Dec 23, 1999	7 out of 10	70
Computer Gaming World (CGW)	Apr, 2000		40

Forums

Topic	# Posts	Last Post
Best adventure series ever.	7	Unicorn Lynx (181678) Nov 08, 2011
Still The Greatest	9	St. Martyne (3653) Feb 23, 2009
And that f'ing puzzle is not only stupid ...	9	Slug Camargo (589) Oct 03, 2007

Trivia

Bugs

Gabriel and Grace both give humorous comments at most objects you see in the game. Though there is a little bug in this - being Grace and looking in the museum of rennes-le-chateau and looking at one of the paintings on the wall in the big museum-hall will give you Gabriel's comment on it.

Development

Dean Erickson, who played Gabriel in GK2, was briefly considered to play the role of Gabriel again. But Sierra wanted a more professional actor to play the role and so Tim Curry was chosen to return to the series.

Inspiration

The plot around the San Greal Secrets book is partially based on the real 1983 novel Holy Blood, Holy Grail. A controversial work on its own, it returned to the spotlights once again amid plagiarism speculations in the 2003 bestseller The Da Vinci Code.

Legacy

Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned was the last adventure game published by Sierra.

References

• 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.
• When you look at the chicken who's walking outside the hotel, Gabriel will say something about the voodoo murders from the first Gabriel Knight adventure.

Wal-Mart

The game's subtitle "Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned" was removed from the cover of boxes sold at Wal-Mart locations, as per their request.

Information also contributed by Crawly, Ju, just Ju..., Luis Silva, MAT, Picard, Tom Murphy and WildKard

Related Web Sites

• Gabriel Knight 3 (a fan site dedicated to GK3)
• GameFaqs GK3 FAQs & Guides (A collection of files (walkthroughs, facts, etc.) posted on Gamefaqs.com)
• GK3 Walkthrough (on Just Adventure)
• Hints for Gabriel Knight 3 (Jason's hints will definitely push you in the right direction while solving this game's many puzzles.)
• Mosely (A site dedicated to Detective Mosely, with an image gallery and even a minigame: Moselys alley)
• Playing this game in Windows XP (Inferno tells you how)
• Understanding GK3 (A guide for understanding the game's story and historical references.)
• Walkthrough by Crash (Nicely written and easy to follow solution)