Gabriel Knight 2: The Beast Within

Boring as hell. Couldn't get into it. Dean Erickson replaced the funny and slightly pervy Tim Curry as Gabe, which totally ruined it for me, as Gabe seemed like an altogether different character. Grace and the other characters are played well, but the story is just so boring that it makes me want to go to sleep. Never finished the game, as the collection I got was missing one of the disks from this game. I'm glad. It saved me some time I would have only wasted otherwise.

As a fan of the first one this game was a total shock in how boring this was. The main character has lost all of his charm. There is pretty much none of the banter of the first. The setting feels dead and lifeless contrast the vibrant New Orleans in the first one. The plot was simple, predictable, and uninspiring. There was no real sense of mystery in this at all. I never want to have to play this again. And would not wish it upon my most hated of enemies.

Unfortunatelly game crashed when i was playing chapter 3 . I didn't save my progress , and i don't want to play again , it was long time , i can't load any saves that i downloaded , it is bad. GOG version is bad , try steam

to be honest i only liked this game because i like games like phantasmagoria!! this one does not have such a nice story but it is of the same gender1!! i would love it if someone created a new pc game in 2011 like phantasmagoria with real actors!! other than that it is a pretty enjoyable old game that will remind you of good old times!

I feel disappointed with this game for several reasons. First off, some of the puzzles aren't very logical and it takes a lot of time to figure them out. Secondly, some stages as a whole are so very complex that you keep asking yourself if you're even doing things right, and then it becomes obvious you had to miss some minute detail - but what that was is very unclear. Thirdly, the acting in this game is all over place - from some quite good performances, to some which are so bad you just feel bad watching them. Finally, and I have to address this, the game hasn't aged very well in terms of dialogue and the general feel. I do not wish to offend anyone here, but for me it was obvious the game had some serious homosexual undertones - I do not know if that was planned, or if it didn't sound that way in the mid-90's. The whole serious plot of the game just falls apart once you cannot defend yourself from the feeling that you're watching a cheap gay soft-porn flick. Two or three scenes are especially like that, making the whole thing... well, unsettling, I would say. To sum up, the game hasn't aged well. If you're thinking about buying this and some other adventure title, if I were you I'd decide on the other one first. This is simply not the best the genre has to offer.