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Qin: Tomb of the Middle Kingdom
Thursday, November 29, 2018
Set in the burial tomb of Qin Shi Huangdi, the first Emperor of China, Qin places the player in the role of an amateur archaeologist whose job it is to solve puzzles of assorted difficulty and survive pitfalls in order to unravel the mysteries of this historical underworld. Qin is divided into five separate realms: […]
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The Vortex: Quantum Gate II
Friday, November 23, 2018
The year is 2057 in the awkwardly-made Quantum Gate II, and Earth is facing total environmental meltdown. The only thing that can replenish the planet is a rare mineral found abundantly on planet AJ3905 — which can only be reached via the Quantum Gate. Too bad the planet’s atmosphere is deadly and its inhabitants are […]
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Versailles 1685
Tuesday, November 13, 2018
Myst clones are a strange lot, but the avalanche of clones that followed in that game’s wake were occasionally innovative, though often quirky. Cyro Interactive’s Versailles 1685 takes the player in the middle of a tangled web of court intrigue within one of the most beautiful structures of all time. The player assumes the role […]
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The Journeyman Project 2: Buried in Time
Monday, November 12, 2018
While The Journeyman Project was hardly a masterpiece when it came out, it was an ambitious attempt to blend a first-person perspective, impressive graphics, and a hard-edged sci-fi story line into a Windows-based multimedia experience. But as anyone who played Journeyman can tell you, the drawback to all this ambition was the slow transitions gamers […]
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The Journeyman Project 3: Legacy of Time
Sunday, November 11, 2018
A Myst clone with a pulse. In Journeyman Project 3: Legacy of Time, players once again take on the role of Temporal Agent Gage Blackwood. Though Gage staved off certain disaster at the hands of Agent 3, his ruthless nemesis and confessed Maybelline cosmetic scalper, he did so at a terrible cost. Arthur, his autonomous […]
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Kingdom o’ Magic
Saturday, November 10, 2018
Badly rendered graphics and some comedic flair. Not since Monty Python spoofed themselves in the off-kilter Monty Python’s Complete Waste of Time has there been a computer program with such a twisted and distinctively British sense of humor. Kingdom O’ Magic is a quirky adventure filled with dark humor and takes players on a wild […]
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Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned
Sunday, October 28, 2018
In 1994, there was a graphic adventures that drew upon the themes of duality and good and evil. Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers introduced us to the writer and self-proclaimed gumshoe from New Orleans, who won the hearts of adventure gamers everywhere with his southern drawl, air of machismo and tight jeans. Sins of […]
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Beyond Time
Saturday, October 27, 2018
Beyond Time is a Myst clone, like the huge number of other Myst clones. It’s a bit like Timelapse or The Egyptian Prohpecy considering the ancient civilization setting, but while those games were at least tolerable, Beyond Time is most definitely not. Slideshow graphics with next to no animation, unoriginal puzzles, a boring storyline and […]
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Gabriel Knight 2: The Beast Within
Friday, October 26, 2018
The original Gabriel Knight was very well received for its time. But when the sequel radically changed the visual style, fans were unsure what to expect. Were they about to receive another half-hearted, simplified and poorly written Phantasmagoria? The story opens about one year after the events of the first game. Gabriel is busy writing […]
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Alien Incident
Friday, October 19, 2018
It’s Halloween and your uncle is testing his latest invention, a device which opens a rift between Earth and everywhere else in the universe. An alien entity makes its way to Earth through the rift, but the real problem is that this entity is pursued by an Shot1 alien warship… the contents of which don’t […]
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