The Da Vinci Code<: Game Makes You Feel Like You Are a Part of the Movie

Dan Brown's best selling book: The Da Vinci Code, has been made into a film staring Tom Hanks and also into a video game that hopes to make you feel like you are right in the adventure! The video game: The Da Vinci Code takes you into locations featured in the film, the book, and also some new ones!

In The Da Vinci Code, you must Guide Dr. Robert Langdon from Harvard University on a bizarre quest to solve many mysteries that have come to light due to a strange murder. Dr. Langdon is assisted by Sophie Neveu, a French cryptographer. Together, the two of them follow clues, including some hidden in Da Vinci's painting, The Mona Lisa. These clues lead them down a strange path that reveals a secret society that will do anything to protect an ancient and long lost treasure, the Holy Grail.

While playing The Da Vinci Code, you must use your brains to find these clues, along with solving intellectual puzzles in order to progress. These puzzles are often quite challenging and sometimes difficult. On top of that, you also have to elude the authorities and the secret society that is always at your tail. This means you must be prepared to use stealth and also have some combat skills.

Searching for clues puts you in the "Examination Mode." You enter this mode when you approach a key element in the game that may contain a clue. In the Examination Mode, you will see a close up of whatever you are looking at. Details of what you are seeing will be provided. Pay attention because these may be clues that hint towards your next destination. An example: a corpse can give you hints to the way it died...perhaps murdered? A business card could contain a phone number written somewhere on it...a phone number you may need?

Since The Da Vinci Code is full of text and clues, you may be wondering if you need a notepad to jot everything down. Not to worry! The game features an appendix so that you may refer back to it to look over any clues you may have found.

All of the environments of The Da Vinci Code are beautifully made. Many of the real world locations are so full of detail that you will think that you are really there! Some of these locations include, The Louvre, St. Sulpice, and Westminster Abbey. Expect to see more awesome locations as you take part in this spine tingling adventure. Character models are done quite well and the lighting and shadow effects are just perfect! As for sound, the track will make you feel like you are truly in the game.

The voice acting is also descent. Controls are a bit tedious to master, but once figured out it will be like second nature. All and all, if you want to feel the intensity of all that Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code has to offer, you won't want to miss out on this game.

The Da Vinci Code is available on Playstation 2, XBOX, and PC. It has an ESRB rating of T for teen. This is because the game features violence. Parents, if you let your kid watch the film then you should have no problem letting them play the game!