zConnection Review: Penumbra: Black Plague

Penumbra: Black Plague wastes little time putting players back in control of Phillip, the most troubled physicist since J. Robert Oppenheimer. With the exception of the opening narration (in which Phillip makes like a MySpace user and tells us how we must understand his inner pain and torment), the second entry in the Penumbra trilogy begins in such a fast matter, it's almost as if the previous game had an "Insert Disc 2" message preceding the abrupt ending.