Heart of China

Wow! Heart of China AND Rise of the Dragon are both up for sale. Thank you so much. I missed playing these games since the late 90's when the computers became too fast to run them at the time (since DOS Box and the fiddling around to make them work properly hadn't come out then). Thanks again for this. Now, how about "Blade Runner" and "Heart of Darkness"? I'd love to see them released too!

I did not get to finish this game. Played only maybe a quarter of the game, but I remember how fun it was. tmnt is spot on. Great graphics for it's time on the Amiga. Did have that Indiana Jones feel to it. Glad to see it here on the best game site there is! GOG you keep surprising me!

This is one of the few games I never had the time to finish. I got stuck in the Tank Escape part, and shortly after College Uni Studies sucked all my time, by the time I wanted to play it again I lost my backup and game during the moves. And the 386 PC I had it installed on died and lost everything... I've always wanted to finish this little gem. This game really got me into the RPG scene, back in the days this game along with Monkey Island, Space Quest and Wing Commander it would have used up all my spare time. Also it was such a rare find for a PC game featuring China, back in the days it was extremely rare for a game to feature anything but America cities, or completely fictional lands, so the game was like an interesting Virtual Exploration of China, when the internet was not even born, and there was wikipedia or google map to search and lookup Scienes from China. The game overall was very good, same type of menu and play mode as typical Sierra Games, like Space Quest, King Quest, Larry, etc. Back in the days this would have been among the AAA games line up of games. The story is interesting enough for you to want to complete the game to read the whole thing. It's your typical Hero saves the princess from the enemy type of story.

Back then, when the game was released, I was quite young and played it on my older brother's Amiga. Secretly and without his knowledge (at least that's what I believed at the time). I knew really little about games and did not even know how to call the genre. But hell, did I have fun with this! It had just the right mixture of action, fun and excitement. The puzzles were logic and not too hard, and I liked the story very much. I like stories with charming adventurers, tough women and equally mysterious and funny characters. I got all of that here. The real action sequences (for example the tank sequence which was mentioned before) were skipable, as far as I remember. This was really good. I always found them quite fun, but also hard, and I can understand how they can get annoying quickly. You travel to several pictoresk locations, meet interesting characters, experience adventures (some funny, some dramatic). There are many ways to die in this game, but you get rewarded with more than one ending depending on your gameplay and decisions. The gameplay is mostly classic point 'n click with a first-person perspective. Sometimes it is possible to play with different characters. However, the game seems a little more stiff-legged and awkward than (for example) Lucasfilm games. However, this does not bother at all. All in all, the game still looks like it was made from a single mould. The digitised images of the live actors (fun fact: the actors were mostly from the company's own employees and even their families due to a small budget) and the hand-painted sets fit together so well and create a great atmosphere. If you like classic adventure games and can handle the occasional death, I highly recommend this game. Especially for this small price here. I'm very happy to find this little gem here and have a nice little nostalgic flashback.