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- June 30, 1996
- Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 (32 & 64 bit)
- English
- Gremlin Interactive Ltd. / Funbox Media
- single-player
- Bonus content included for FREE with purchase:
- manual
- soundtrack
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What's cool about it:
- Explore the incredibly detailed city of Neutropolis that is anything but a normal place
- Amble freely through unique and surreal locations made with impressive attention to detail
- Challenging puzzles with multiple and sometimes twisted and bizarre, solutions
Overview:
A sinister force now controls the city of Neutropolis. A once-thriving city full of beauty and light, Neutropolis has been reduced to a a stagnant pit of apathy.
As Kent Knutson, a shameless dreamer and one of Neutropolis' most awkward citizens, you have been imprisoned for a week and are now under home arrest for that most sinister of crimes: whistling in public. You must get out of your home and explore the vast city of Neutropolis and solve the riddle of a nation’s apathy. Point and click with the unique voodoo doll interface and be rewarded by motion capture sequences as you gather clues and solve puzzles. Chuckle at the bizarre plot and chew carpet while your brain wraps itself around puzzles that are greater than the sum of their parts. If you manage to understand the mystery that shrouds Neutropolis, you're only halfway there...
Why is the city so controlled? Why does the most successful company in town make furniture? Why can't penguins fly? Who is Brian Deluge? How can you solve the riddle of the mystery of the clue of the puzzle that shrouds Neutropolis?
Age requirements: ESRB Rating: TEEN with Use of Alcohol and Tobacco, Animated Violence.
Minimum system requirements: Windows XP or Windows Vista, 1.8 GHz Processor, 512MB RAM (1 GB recommended), 3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 7 (compatible with DirectX 9 recommended), 2GB HDD, Mouse, Keyboard.
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Good entertainment with a some flaws
Posted on 2011-07-14 11:27:05 by
Harzzach:
"Normality" was a little sensation back then, being the first adventure to use a 3D engine to navigate your character through the game. And there was much to navigate. Many locations to visit, many objects to discover, many obstacles to overcome. The story and setting is still quite fun to follow and explore. Maybe the graphics are not that, what we are used to today, read more
but from a gameplay standpoint "Normality" has aged very well.
I am to recommend it to any adventure gamer, with a little word of warning: The puzzle logic is sometimes so far away from any concievable logic, completly "NOT NORMAL" that you will find yourself grinding hours through all item and hotspot combinations. Studying a walkthough now and then is no shame, unless you enjoy hurting yourself by refusing to use a walkthrough at all ...
So, besides some bad puzzle designs, a nice and fun game. Go, get it!
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Abnormal adventure
Posted on 2011-07-14 15:51:01 by
Numbers:
Normality is a very odd combination - an adventure game with a Doom-like engine. Sounds odd? Yeah it is. There are some minor issues with that presentation but I'll mention it when I'll go on...
Normality is a Orwell served with a heavy rock/punk sauce. The titular normality is complete subjection to the ruling government, that means... yeah. No TV other than the boring NORMTV(TM)which read more
runs normal (read: boring) programs for normal (read: boring) people, no rock music, normal books only (anything that isn't normal is of course either censored or disposed off). Hell you can't live in a NORM world eh? Take control of Kent - a young rebellious (or just wanting to have fun) chap and overthrow the boring government! That's pretty much the story of the game.
As for the actual substance - the game requires scanning the environment carefully (Not too careful though, thankfully it isn't a pixel hunt), pick up the puzzle pieces, use them, converse - the usual adventure game stuff. One thing though: the puzzles are HARD. Play on words, tongue in cheek humor or just sheer surrealism is the basis of this game. So watch the conversations! Throwing a spanner in the works might have to be taken literally.
The 3D interface works out... so-so. It's weird and the voodoo doll interface needs to get some using to. Buuuuuttttttttttt... it works.
That's pretty much the best summary: The game works - the dry and quirky humor, the weird control scheme and the revolutionist storyline all goes well together.
5 stars and must get for any adventure game fan. If you're a new to the genre though, reconsider the purchase for it might leave you clutching your head for days, trying to solve a particularly hard puzzles.
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A truly Good old game
Posted on 2011-07-15 10:03:51 by
rpautassi:
Normality has humor and is well paced, the puzzles can be hard for this post-syberia times, but it is just a matter of using lateral thinking and the 1984-style story is adequate enough to make you push the game forward. I never understood why Adventure games didn't use more the heretic/hexen/doom perspective. It is much better than the node-to-node alternative, yet there are are read more
few that used it (a noticeable exception being gabriel knight 3). The Gog version runs pretty well, only some minor stuttering in a cinematic but otherwise rocks. If you are new to adventures I recommend using a walkthrough and a little bit of patience, part of the fun here is reading the descriptions, figuring out how to combine items in the inventory, etc.
Overall, a very good game.
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