The Da Vinci Code

Summary

The Da Vinci Code is an action-adventure game that blends puzzle-solving with combat and stealth mechanics, allowing players to choose between engaging in either combat or remaining hidden. The game switches between the perspectives of the novel's main characters, Robert Langdon and Sophie Neveu, and presents a narrative that differs from the book's storyline in several key ways.

Storyline

The game opens with Silas (voiced by Phil LaMarr) in his cell, fastening a spiked metal cilice around his leg. He then grabs a handgun and steps out. The scene shifts to Robert Langdon (Robert Clotworthy), a Harvard symbology professor in Paris for a lecture, arriving at the Louvre. He is summoned by Cpt. Bezu Fache (Enn Reitel) to examine a crime scene. Jacques Saunière (Neil Ross), Langdon’s friend and the museum’s curator, has been found dead. In a flashback, Silas is seen questioning Saunière about the location of something. Saunière answers, and Silas replies, “I believe you. The others told me the same,” before shooting him. Inside the museum, Fache reveals that Saunière, before dying, left a numeric code and a message—“O Draconian Devil! Oh Lame Saint!”—written in blacklight ink. Sophie Neveu (Jennifer Hale), a cryptographer, arrives and identifies the numbers as part of the Fibonacci sequence, though they are scrambled. She privately warns Langdon that Fache suspects him of the murder. In the restroom, she reveals the police have placed a GPS tracker on him. Neveu also shares that Saunière had written, in blacklight, “PS. Find Robert Langdon.” She explains that Saunière was her grandfather and “PS” was his affectionate nickname for her, “Princess Sophie.” She believes the cipher was a way to ensure her involvement in the case. Langdon discards the GPS tracker onto a passing vehicle, and most of the police leave the museum to chase it. He and Neveu return to the body, and Langdon realizes the numbers are out of order to indicate the letters are also scrambled; the phrases are anagrams. He deciphers “Draconian Devil” as “Leonardo da Vinci” and “Oh Lame Saint” as “The Mona Lisa.” As they head toward the painting, Langdon suggests “PS” might also refer to the Priory of Sion. His theory is reinforced when Neveu recalls seeing the letters “PS” with a fleur-de-lis as a child—this combination is the Priory’s coat of arms. At the Mona Lisa, they discover a substitution cipher in blacklight ink on the glass surrounding the painting. The clues lead them to Saunière’s office, where they listen to a message from Sister Sandrine of Saint-Sulpice, who warns Saunière, “the floor is broken and the other three are dead.” A window shatters, and a voice says, “Your fate was sealed the moment you stood against Manus Dei.” As they follow more clues, Neveu concludes they must go to Saunière’s chateau. She and Langdon part ways—she heads to the chateau, while he goes to Saint-Sulpice. At the chateau, Langdon finds a monk attacking a young nun. He subdues the attacker, and the nun, Sister Marguerite (Jane Carr), tells him that Sandrine was killed by Silas, who was searching for something she refused to hand over. Silas had just left before the monks arrived, seemingly trying to cover up his actions. Langdon deduces the monks are part of Sanctus Umbra, a militant faction of Manus Dei. He inspects the broken floor at the base of the Gnomon of Saint-Sulpice and discovers a stone tablet with the inscription from Job 38:11—“Hitherto shalt thou come but no further.” He realizes Silas was misled by Saunière and the others. In the crypt, he finds a list of Priory Grand Masters, revealing Saunière was the current Master. Meanwhile, at the chateau, Neveu enters Saunière’s underground grotto. She evades both Silas and the police, following a trail of clues to find a key with the address of the Depository Bank of Zurich. Reuniting with Langdon, they travel to the bank, where they open Saunière’s vault and find a cryptex. They then go to Château Villette, the home of Sir Leigh Teabing (Greg Ellis), Langdon’s friend and a leading expert on the Holy Grail. Teabing and Langdon explain to Neveu that the Grail is not a chalice, but a reference to a woman. Using da Vinci’s *The Last Supper*, Teabing reveals that the figure of John is actually Mary Magdalene, the wife of Jesus. This marriage was hidden by the early Church to maintain the belief in Jesus’ divinity. Teabing explains that the Holy Grail, the chalice that held Christ’s blood, was Mary herself, as she was pregnant with Jesus’ child. At this moment, Silas arrives, confessing he killed Saunière on the orders of “The Teacher.” Langdon and Neveu subdue him, and with Teabing and his servant Remy (Andres Aguilar), they travel to London, taking the unconscious Silas with them. Upon landing at Biggin Hill, they head to Temple Church. Langdon and Teabing enter the church, but in the courtyard, Neveu witnesses Remy betray them, sending a group of henchmen after them. Langdon wakes up in a dungeon, escapes, and rejoins Neveu. He tells her Remy is holding Teabing hostage as leverage for the cryptex. Inside the church, Remy and Silas confront Langdon and Neveu, who flee to Westminster Abbey, where Teabing is being held. There, they decide they must solve the cryptex to negotiate for Teabing’s release. Using a series of clues from Saunière, they succeed—but before they can open it, they are captured by Remy. He brings them to Teabing, who reveals himself as “The Teacher.” He shoots Remy, as he is no longer useful, and announces Silas has been arrested for the recent murders. He tells Langdon and Neveu the Priory was meant to reveal the contents of the cryptex on the eve of the New Millennium, but Saunière chose not to. Determined to do so himself, Teabing asks Langdon and Neveu to help expose the truth about Mary Magdalene, but they refuse. Langdon destroys the cryptex, and Teabing is arrested as he mourns the lost truth. However, Langdon had secretly removed the document from the cryptex before its destruction. Following the clue, he and Neveu travel to Rosslyn Chapel, where they uncover a family tree tracing back to the Merovingian dynasty. In a set of documents, they learn that when Sophie’s family was killed in a car crash, the media reported that all four—mother, father, and two children—had died. The family was identified as the Saint-Clairs. Langdon realizes the truth: Neveu survived the accident, and the Priory spread the story of her death to protect her, as she is a direct blood descendant of Jesus. Neveu’s grandmother arrives, explaining the family changed their name for safety. She introduces Neveu to her brother, who also survived the crash—while he went to Scotland, Neveu was sent to France with Saunière. Neveu’s grandmother then tells Langdon that the Grail is not in Rosslyn, but in France. Langdon realizes the cryptex’s clue didn’t point to Rosslyn, but to the Rose Line in Paris. He bids Neveu farewell and heads to France, finally understanding that the Grail lies beneath the Louvre Pyramid.

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