Posted on: October 5, 2023

BigBadBorg

Spiele: 840 Rezensionen: 38

At least she died quickly.

FMV usually sucks. Weird logic puzzles, bad acting, boring. But GK2 is different. 1 The puzzles feel like real adventure game puzzles. Yes, there is an occasional moment where you better use a walkthrough, but these moments are rare. 2 The acting is not bad, actually it's pretty good. The characters themselves reach from awesome to horrible. But the acting is always good! 3 The story is great! There went a lot of work into it, many of the history is absolutely solid. Except for the werewolf parts of course! If you are not only an adventure friend but also a German history buff you will enjoy this game even more. 4 The characters. Gabriel is not bad, but he is no Tim Curry. In the end it is a totally diffent Knight character. Grace reaches from fantastic (in her first scene) to horrible btch (after that) to again great (later in the game). The supporting cast is fun to interact with, especially the Lady in the Ludwig museum. No, in Germany no one in a museum is such a dick :) But my, I love her! There is a German dub, and it's so ridiculous that it's fantastic comedy material. They tried to shadowmask the language barriers with hard to understand German dialects, it's awesome! But the better way is to play it in English. If you speak English and German you have the best experience possible! You can read (well written) articles and signs that the main actors don't understand, so you always know a little more than them. You can skip the video sequences (for example getting in the car and driving away or walking up the stairs, or walking in the next room), thanks to the hard drive installation it's a pretty fluid experience, I don't want to imagine how that must have felt with 6 CDs. Also you can't die very often, it's pretty rare. Non the less, I advise to save often, you can skip a video but something was supposed to happen, and you missed it, so at least you can go back. If I had a top ten of adventure games, this game would be in it! Highly recommended!

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Posted on: August 18, 2018

celioazevedo

Spiele: 5 Rezensionen: 6

Linux?

Does it run on Linux?

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Posted on: March 1, 2010

antihippie

Bestätigter Besitzer

Spiele: 199 Rezensionen: 52

Great Adventure Title

GK:2 stands out as probably the best of a brief spate of games that came out in the 90s featuring live actors in streaming video. The game uses excellent actors, a simplified and intuitive method of interaction and a compelling story-line to perfect what was always a flawed gaming system and deliver a fantastic, deep adventure game. The Beast Within is, obviously a sequel. It rejoins Gabriel Knight, now as a struggling Shattenjaeger in Germany trying to solve a string of murders involving a suspected werewolf. Unlike most sequels, which just provide more of the same, GK:2 reinvents itself. Due to the method of using live actors the interface has been completely retooled. No more do you have to choose between take, move, operate and speak commands. If you can use it, the cursor will change to a dagger and allow you to do so. There is a great deal to operate, which gives you a much greater feeling of being involved in the action than most games of this type. Unlike other live action games, which often leave you feeling like you're just passively watching a bad movie, GK:2 keeps you involved, making you feel like a detective in a dime store murder mystery. GK:2 stands out, for me, as the best of the series. The quality of the series fell off sharply in the third installment as it attempted to make a transition to full 3-d. Here however, the game designers manage to transition beautifully into a new style, taking the best and discarding the worst.

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Posted on: August 15, 2018

jakub.959

Spiele: 512 Rezensionen: 32

Do not be blinded by nostalgia

I played it on release and...oh my god... Okay, deep breaths. In Gabriel Knight Sins of fathers our hero is a sly, charismatic, somewhat... pervy yet very charming guy. In Gabriel Knight 2 our hero is a guy who was rejected from some B romance movie for being too bland and boring. Grace is... I am trying not to swear here, Grace is irritating woman who has a character of wet dirty rag. Entire game consists mostly of loading screens and watching the same animations over and over and over again because you are trying to trigger a new event by walking around...a lot. Puzzles? What puzzles! Monkey could solve this and I am not even kidding right now, I am 100% sure that a trained chimp could solve all the games puzzles. In fact chimp may even be better at it than a human considering that I often missed the puzzle since I ALREADY FIGURED OUT THE CLUE AND FORGOT THAT GABRIEL MUST FIGURE IT OUT TOO. Yes, this is one of the few adventure games in which your character feels dumber than the player...by a lot. FMV games are usually very bad, interface feels unresponsive (and no, I am not talking from today's point of view, I mean from that time, remember, played it on launch day!) and you do not even feel like you are progressing in game, you just walk around and click on things praying to all the gods that suffering will finally end. So is this the worst game ever? Sadly no. Because there are flashes of brilliance, entire game is like a monument to a wasted potential and you can see small glimpses of what this game could have been if they only sticked to traditional format. Jane Jensen writing is stellar as always and you will learn quite a lot about history from this game. In fact it is so interesting that you should buy it just for this. But this must be the only adventure game which is much more interesting to watch than to play.

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Posted on: January 24, 2023

streetyson

Spiele: 51 Rezensionen: 32

FMV is the future - or should've been

The heyday of 1990s FMV (full motion video) games. No finer example, imho. I wish more had been done with FMV, but thereafter games went to naff early 3D (which took another decade to be as nice to look at as FMV) or went down the interactive-movie route (which frankly bore me). Sure, today's 3D AAA games make FMV redundant/dated, but I feel what could've been another decade of FMV gaming was abandoned before it's time. Compare these previews to the 3D ones in Gabriel Knight 3 - 3D would be trash for at least another decade. Story-wise you get a nice sense of the mystery. I'm only knocking a star off for some typically clunky 1990s gameplay sequencing - eg a neat little location I found and searched thoroughly for evidence, but presumably earlier than the expected sequence because nothing was there - but when later stuck I eventually went back there and the evidence was now magically in place, presumably having been triggered by a certain conversation/sequence. Why not have the have it there but alternatively later enable a conversation about it? Painful - but thankfully there isn't much of that.

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