Prepare for the adventure of a lifetime as you once again assume the identity of Agent #5 of the Temporal Security Agency. Falsely accused of altering Earth's history, you are forced to walk the shadows of time, unearthing clues and escaping mortal danger while seeking crucial evidence that will cle...
Prepare for the adventure of a lifetime as you once again assume the identity of Agent #5 of the Temporal Security Agency.
Falsely accused of altering Earth's history, you are forced to walk the shadows of time, unearthing clues and escaping mortal danger while seeking crucial evidence that will clear your name and reveal the true identity of the conspirators who have framed you!
Buried in Time's contain hours upon hours of engrossing gameplay, challenging puzzles and an incredible soundtrack.
Travel to exotic places like an Aztec temple or Leonardo da Vinci’s workshop
Immerse yourself in a great storyline
Funny and entertaining adventure with breathtaking events
I'm a big fan of the JMP games and wasted no time in purchasing Buried in Time from GoG. Unfortunately, this edition is afflicted with a show stopping bug regarding saving and loading games. Attempts to save a game crashes it to the desktop, same with attempting to load a game.
From the support forums, its widespread across Vista and 7, 32 and 64 bit. Until this is resolved, I cannot rate GOG's edition higher than a single star. Hopefully, a fix will be coming soon. Its a great game and I would relish the opportunity to play it again.
One of the best old school adventure game series when i first picked up the original Journeyman I loved it instantly just because of the over all atmosphere of the game and games was well thought out and so was the plot.
I may be biased as this was one of the very first games I ever played but I really do believe this is one of the greatest adventure games ever crafted - a unique piece that blends the first person exploration of the Myst series with the more traditional inventory based puzzles of Sierra and LucasArts titles.
Let's just get the obvious out of the way first... yes, this game is very dated. The viewing space is tiny, taking up maybe 1/3 of the already limited 640x480 resolution. The CGI looks like it came from an episode of Babylon 5. The score sounds like it was composed entirely with a Korg Wavestation and Roland midi modules. Almost every male character has shoulder length hair like Tommy from Power Rangers. But underneath all of that there's a real gem to be had.
The story draws you in with a great twist on the basic "Someone's changed history, you must stop it!" scenario of the first game - this time someone's changed history, but they've framed you - now you have to figure out why. Meanwhile the rest of the game world draws you in making you feel like you're in a series of real places. The plot is developed through journal entries, answering machine messages, even watching the news and commercials. Historical puzzles are all built from their environment with scraps of letters, murals on temple walls and ancient blueprints and notebooks to give you clues. There's almost no moon logic and only a tiny handful of puzzles for the sake of having a puzzle. If you can get past all its technical limitations, this is actually one of the most immersive games I've ever played.
I haven't even begun to talk about Arthur, possibly the best companion character of any game ever made, offering historical background and hilarious pop culture references in equal measure.
If you enjoy the genre even a little, you definitely need to check this game out - it's criminally underrated and deserves a lot more love.
After enjoying Pegasus Prime so much, going to Buried in Time is going to a game that is obviously less polished. There are time sequences, sudden deaths, dead ends, unskippable videos that cannot be paused or cannot be repeated, pixel hunting, a navigation system which is simply awful and backtracking that can only be defined as brutal.
But the lore is good, with a time travel story that mixes with Star Trek kind of aliens (where, btw, humans are the only ones that act individually it seems) and quite nice educational value. It is just... to clunky to enjoy nowadays.
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