(C) Saturn-Plus 2002
(C) Buka 2002
BLACK OASIS
CONTENTS
PROLOGUE
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
GAME SETTINGS
FIRST STARTUP OF THE GAME
CONTROLS
TECH SUPPORT
DEALER INFORMATION
GAME CREATORS
COMPANY SITES
HOW TO BECOME A BETA-TESTER
PROLOGUE
March 14, 2019
Black Lake. In the cellar of one of the houses, the severely mutilated bodies of four people are discovered. The victims turn out to be unemployed vagrants. The original theory about a gang war has not been confirmed
March 17, 2019
In Black Lake City Park, the bodies of two young women are discovered. Identification of the victims is complicated. The Prosecutor’s Office is issuing no comment.
March 19, 2019
Three more bodies are found in different parts of town. The investigation is working on a serial killer theory.
March 26, 2019
Another eleven bodies found in the last week. Panic in Black Lake. The Federal Security Service is sending agents in to cooperate with the investigating team.
April 4, 2019
The elusive murderer’s total body count has reached seventy-eight. The population of Black Lake is fleeing the town en masse. The investigation is at an impasse.
April 11, 2019
The town has been cordoned off by troops. A state of emergency has been declared in Black Lake. People are being evacuated and placed in special quarantine centers. The murders continue. . . .
The Black Lake Medical Center morgue. It’s cold. Only the hum of the refrigeration unit disturbs the quiet. . . . Suddenly the light goes on and off a few times. A spark bursts from behind the electric power panel, there’s a loud crack, and the hum of the refrigerator gradually dies out. . . . Cold and dark. And pain, a dull, aching pain all over. What’s wrong with me? Where am I--and who am I? Gradually I’m starting to feel my arms and I touch the space around me. There’s something smooth and cold everywhere. It’s like I’m lying in a sack. All the way at the top, right in front of my nose, my stiff fingers feel a zipper. I catch it with my nail and unzip the sack. . . .
My eyes are stabbed by an unbearably bright light!
When my vision has adjusted a little, I look around. There are tables with black plastic sacks everywhere. I myself am lying in a similar unzipped sack on a table. Directly opposite me water is dripping from a plastic grating in the wall.
I try to stand up and I stagger so badly I can barely keep my feet by grabbing onto the edge of the table.
What on earth has happened to me? Who am I? I don’t remember a thing. . . .
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
Minimum system requirements:
Operating system: Windows? 98/Me/2000/XP
Processor: Pentium II 400 MHz
RAM: 64 MB
Video: DirectX 8.0 compatible video card with second-generation 3D accelerator
Free space on hard drive: 1.1 GB
Sound: DirectX 8.0 compatible sound card
CD-ROM: 8x speed
Controls: keyboard, mouse
Recommended system requirements:
Operating system: Windows? 98/Me/2000/XP
Processor: Pentium III 733 MHz
RAM: 128 MB
Video: DirectX 8.0 compatible video card with third-generation 3D accelerator
Free space on hard drive: 1.3 GB
Sound: DirectX 8.0 compatible sound card
CD-ROM: 16x speed
Controls: keyboard, mouse
Attention!
The Buka Company does not guarantee the compact disc’s operation on CD-R, CD-RW, or DVD-ROM drives.
GAME SETTINGS
Insert the game disc into the CD drive. On the screen you will see a menu for auto installation with the following options: “Install game,” “Start game,” and “Delete game.” Select “Install game,” and left-click the mouse to start installation. The installer will ask you to choose the directory where you want the game installed (the default is C:\Program Files\Buka\blackOasis). You can also do this by clicking the “Browse” button. After you’ve chosen the directory for installation, click “Next >>.” Now the game setup will start. During setup you will be asked to insert disc 2 in the CD-ROM drive to continue file copying.
After the files have been copied, the setup program will offer to put the game icon on your desktop. Click “Finish >>.”
Setup is complete. To start playing, click “Start game” on the auto installation menu.
ATTENTION!!!
Disc 2 for the game must be in the CD drive.
N o t e
If auto recognition has been turned off on your computer, click “Start” on the Windows screen, select “Run”, and click “Browse”. Select the CD-ROM drive and start Setup.exe.
FIRST STARTUP OF THE GAME
The first time you start up the game, a menu of game settings will appear on your screen.
Use hardware TnL - hardware transformation and lighting feature (for GeForce video cards and older, this makes the game faster)
Triple bufferization - use triple bufferization (this makes the game faster)
Compatibility with Ati Radeon - compatible with the video card on Ati Radeon chips; turn it on only if the game is very slow; if you turn it on with other chips’ video cards, you can slow the game down
32-bit color - use 32-bit color, which improves the image quality but may slow the game down
Shadows - to draw shadows from a character; this may slow the game down
Play video clips - play video clips
Play sound - play sound
Play music - play music
After the first startup, game settings can be called by running config.exe.
CONTROLS
Esc - Call up the main menu
F5 - Quickly save the game
F6 - Quickly restore the game
F7 - Restore the previous scene of the game
MAIN MENU
NEW GAME
Start a new game (go back to the beginning)
LOAD
Restore a previously saved game.
To restore a previously saved game, use the “left” and “right” arrows to select the file of the saved game and click “OK”. To Cancel, press “Cancel”.
SAVE
Save the current status of the game.
Use the “Backspace” key to delete the previously saved file and write the name of the saved game. Click “OK” to confirm that you are saving the file; to cancel, click “Cancel”.
SETTINGS
Game parameter settings
Shadows - turn on/off a character’s shadow
Spectrum - increase/decrease brightness
Subtitles - turn on/off text tooltip feature.
Sound - sound volume
Music - music volume
HERO CONTROLS
Left-click at a selected spot in the scene to move the hero there (if this is possible, of course). Left-click on an active object to pick it up or obtain information about it.
TECH SUPPORT
Buka Technical Support Service
Open Monday through Friday, 10 AM to 3 PM
Address: Buka, 1 Kashirskoe Boulevard Suite 2, Moscow 115230, Russia
Tel.: +7 (095) 111-51-56
http://www.buka.ru/support/support.asp
E-mail: [email protected]
1. When you request tech support, please indicate your computer’s complete configuration and the version of Windows and DirectX you are using and describe your problem in detail.
2. To get answers to specific questions on playing the game, you must be a registered user.
In your letter, you must include your name and registration number.
When you have done this, we will certainly reply!
Sorry, but:
3. We do not send out walkthroughs! Please search for walkthroughs in the forum.
4. We do not send out game codes!
5. The Buka Company is not responsible for problems with your computer’s configuration, the defective operation of other developers’ software, and conflicts with previously installed pirated versions.
6. For all questions concerning operation of your Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP operating system, consult the Microsoft support center: tel. (095) 916-7171; Microsoft, P.O. Box 70, Moscow 125252.
INFORMATION FOR DEALERS
E-mail: [email protected]
Address: Buka, 1 Kashirskoe Boulevard Suite 2, Moscow 115230, Russia
Tel.: +7 (095) 1115156
Fax: +7 (095) 1115440
GAME CREATORS
Saturn-Plus Company
Director
Aleksei Nikanorov
Project Director
Nikolai Khudentsov
Lead programmer
Nikolai Khudentsov
Game assembly
Dmitry Lobov
Chief Project Artist
Nikolai Meshcheriakov
3D graphics and background animation
Vadim Zhiltsov
Vladislav Goncharov
Andrei Anokhin
Eduard Sukhachevsky
Evgeny Kondratiev
Character models
Sergei Khatenkov
Character texturing
Evgeny Kondratiev
Denis Zaitsev
Animation
Andrei Evdokimov aka [mr_ND]
Video
Andrei Evdokimov aka [mr_ND]
Andrei Anokhin
2D graphics
Sergei Meshkov
Sound effects
Dmitry Lobov
Andrei Evdokimov aka [mr_ND]
Music for video clips and titles
Andrei Evdokimov aka [mr_ND]
Special thanks to
Aleksandr Filchenko
BUKA ENTERTAINMENT
Producer
Ivan Moroz aka Black Warrior
Story
Mikhail Seldemeshev
Game music
Tom Dicson
Denis Fet
Dubbing producer
Natalia Dubrovskaia
Sound directors
Pavel Emelianov
Leonid Dragilev
Voices
Aleksandr Lushchik
Yury Brezhnev
Sergei Chikhachev
Grigory Shevchuk
Issuing producer
Aleksandr Pak
Designers
Sanan Ushanov
Lenochka Sedova
Senior tester
Aleksei (WumpuS) Chebotarev
Testers
Sergei (Serzh) Milovanov
Dmitry (Solowey) Anufriev
Maksim (Maks666) Solomatin
Nikolai (Vnuks) Chernov
Aleksei (Lexey) Ostapenko
Oksana (Ksusha) Ostapenko
Dmitry (Rebel) Biriukov
Oleg (Mohax) Remezov
Oleg (Faern) Biriukov
Vladislav (Lich) Zhevnov
Aleksei (AGS) Gromov
Pavel (Driver) Pavlov
Pavel (bercoot) Konkov
Development
Aleksandr Mikhailov
Ruslan Shelekhov aka Cyberman
Katerina Funk
Alla Kolobekova
Yaroslav Astakhov
Ivan Bunakov
Roman Potapkin
Artem Chukanov
Aleksei Chebotarev
Teodor Prodan
Marketing
Marina Beloborodova
Maksim N. Mikhalev
Mikhail Pismenny
Katerina Filippova
International Sales
Inna Bukatina
Maksim S. Mikhalev
Oksana Kravchuk
Yulia Gribonosova
Tsiui Zhentszia
Special thanks to
Vladimir Miniaev aka Smoker
Larisa Arkhipova
Yury Alekseyev
Evgeny Samsonov
Vladislav Mikhailovich Ustinov
Sergei Sokolov
Aleksandr Lykov
Sergei Kapustin
Sergei Sivertsev
Aleksandr Elizarov
Viacheslav Kochetkov
Vladimir Sivertsev
Igor Ustinov
Oleg Beloborodov
Tatiana Ustinova
Marina Skrebkova
Marina Ravun
Denis Tiniaev
Oleg Remizov
Roman Gadas
Accounting
Irina Tsareva
Liudmila Sergeyeva
Yulia Belova
Vitaly Kharitonenko
Information service
Viacheslav Alpatov
Pavel Ravun
Denis Moiseyenko
Legal support
Georgy Vitaliev
Sales
Andrei Antonov
Elena Antonova
Tatiana Ustinova
Sergei Pechenkin
Maksim Alekseyev
Olga Polkovnikova
Technical support
Sergei Remizov
COMPANY SITES
Saturn-Plus www.saturnplus.ru
Buka www.buka.com
HOW TO BECOME A BETA-TESTER
E-mail your application to [email protected], or complete the form at http://www.buka.ru/devel/form.htm.