Rank and Play ID: RNP-IGDB-5797

The Da Vinci Code

Rank and Play

No ratings

Critic rating

60.3 / 100

3 votes

Release

May 19, 2006

Genres

Puzzle, Adventure

Overview

The Da Vinci Code is an action-adventure game that combines puzzle-solving with fighting and stealth elements, the choice between the latter two is mostly left to the player. The game alternates between controlling main characters of the novel, Robert Langdon and Sophie Neveu, and offers a storyline that diverses from the plot of the novel in many respects.

Storyline

The game begins with Silas (voiced by Phil LaMarr) sitting in his chamber, tightening a spiked metal cilice around his leg. He then picks up a handgun and leaves. The game cuts to Robert Langdon (Robert Clotworthy), a Harvard professor of symbology in Paris for a lecture, arriving at the Louvre, where he has been asked to view a crime scene by Cpt. Bezu Fache (Enn Reitel). Jacques Saunière (Neil Ross), Langdon's friend and curator of the museum, has been murdered. In flashback, Silas is shown asking Saunière where something is. Saunière tells him, and Silas responds, "I believe you. The others told me the same," before shooting him. In the m…