The Da Vinci Code

The Da Vinci Code

The Da Vinci Code is an action-adventure game that combines puzzle solving with combat and stealth elements, leaving the choice between the latter two largely up to the player. The game alternately controls the novel's main characters, Robert Langdon and Sophie Neveu, and offers a storyline that differs in many ways from that of the novel.

Story

The game begins with Silas (voiced by Phil LaMarr) sitting in his chamber and putting a spiked metal cuff around his leg. He then picks up a gun and leaves. The game cuts to Robert Langdon (Robert Clotworthy), a Harvard professor of symbology who is in Paris for a lecture and arrives at the Louvre, where he has been asked by Cpt. Bezu Fache (Enn Reitel) to look at a crime scene. Jacques Saunière (Neil Ross), Langdon's friend and curator of the museum, has been murdered. In a flashback, Silas is shown asking Saunière where something is. Saunière tells him, and Silas replies, "I believe you. The others told me so too," before shooting him. At the museum, Fache shows Langdon that before he died, Saunière wrote a cipher of numbers and the message "O Draconian Devil! O lame saint!" written in black light ink. At that moment, Sophie Neveu (Jennifer Hale), a cryptography department employee, shows up and explains that the cipher is part of the Fibonacci sequence, even though the numbers are not in the right order. She then secretly tells Langdon that he is in danger because Fache thinks he is the killer. In the restroom, she reveals to him that the police have planted a GPS tracking device on Langdon. Neveu tells him that in black ink are also the words "PS. Find Robert Langdon." She explains that Saunière was her grandfather and "PS" was his nickname for her: "Princess Sophie." She believes that Saunière inserted the cipher of numbers into the message to secure her involvement in the case. Langdon throws the GPS device at a passing car, whereupon most of the police officers leave the museum and follow him. He and Neveu return to the body and Langdon notices that the numbers are out of sequence, only to tell them that the letters are also out of sequence; the words are anagrams. He deciphers "Draconian Devil" as "Leonardo da Vinci" and "Oh Lame Saint" as "The Mona Lisa." On the way to the painting, Langdon suspects that "PS" could also refer to the Priory of Sion. His theory is reinforced when Neveu remembers seeing the letters along with a lily blossom when she was a child; "PS" combined with a lily blossom is the Priory's coat of arms. At the Mona Lisa, they find a substitution cipher written in black ink on the glass around the painting. The clues lead them to Saunière's office, where they intercept a message in which Sister Sandrine of Saint-Sulpice tells Saunière, "The floor is broken and the other three are dead." A window is heard shattering and a man says, "Your fate was sealed the moment you turned against Manus Dei." As they continue to follow Saunière's clues, Neveu finally concludes that they must go to his castle. She and Robert separate, she goes to the castle and he goes to Saint-Sulpice. Once there, he finds a monk attacking a young nun. He knocks the monk out and the nun, Sister Marguerite (Jane Carr), tells him that Sandrine is dead, killed by Silas, who was looking for something Sandrine wouldn't give him. He disappeared just before the monks arrived, apparently trying to destroy the evidence of what he had done. Langdon concludes that the monks are members of Sanctus Umbra, a militant subgroup of Manus Dei. Langdon examines the broken ground at the base of Saint-Sulpice's gnomon and finds a stone tablet with the inscription Job 38:11: "Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further." He concludes that Silas was led astray by Saunière and the others. He goes to the crypt, where he finds a list of the Grand Masters of the Priory and discovers that Saunière is the current master. Meanwhile, in the castle, Neveu makes her way to Saunière's underground grotto. She eludes both Silas and the police and follows a series of clues to find a key with the address of the Deposit Bank of Zurich. Together with Langdon, they make their way to the bank, where they open Saunière's safe deposit box and find a cryptex. They then make their way to Château Villette, the residence of Sir Leigh Teabing (Greg Ellis), Langdon's friend and one of the world's leading experts on the Holy Grail. Teabing and Langdon explain to Neveu that the Grail is not a chalice, but points to a woman. Referring to da Vinci's The Last Supper, Teabing explains that the image of John is actually Mary Magdalene, to whom the historical Jesus was married. This marriage was suppressed by the early church, which wanted its followers to believe that Jesus was divine. Teabing explains that the chalice that contained the blood of Christ, the Holy Grail of legend, was Mary herself, since she was pregnant with Jesus' child. At that moment, Silas appears and reveals that he murdered Saunière on the orders of the "Teacher." Langdon and Neveu incapacitate him and set off for London with Teabing and his servant Remy (Andres Aguilar), taking the unconscious Silas with them. They end up in Biggin Hill and go to Temple Church. Langdon and Teabing go inside, but in the courtyard Neveu sees Remy betray them and send a gang of thugs after them. Langdon wakes up in a dungeon, but manages to escape and meets with Neveu. He tells her that Remy is holding Teabing hostage in order to