Blair Witch Volume II: The Legend of Coffin Rock

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Blair Witch Volume II:
The Legend of Coffin Rock
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Developer(s) Human Head Studios
Publisher(s)
Director(s) Timothy S. Gerritsen
Producer(s) Joshua Galloway
Programmer(s) Matthew Sweeney
Artist(s) Rowan Atalla
Composer(s)
Series Blair Witch
Platform(s) Microsoft Windows
Release
  • NA: 25 October 2000
  • EU: 3 November 2000
Genre(s) Survival horror
Mode(s) Single-player

Blair Witch Volume II: The Legend of Coffin Rock is a survival horror video game developed by Human Head Studios for Microsoft Windows. It is a sequel to Blair Witch Volume I: Rustin Parr and was followed by Blair Witch Volume III: The Elly Kedward Tale .

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Development

The game went gold on October 16, 2000 [1] and was released on 25 October 2000 in North America, and on 3 November in Europe. [2] [3]

Reception

Blair Witch Volume II: The Legend of Coffin Rock received "mixed or average" reviews, according to review aggregator Metacritic. [4] In the United States, it sold 16,000 copies by October 2001. [16]

Daniel Erickson reviewed the PC version of the game for Next Generation , rating it two stars out of five, and called the game short and repetitive, and having a problematic camera control. [13]

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