Titanic: Adventure Out of Time

Let me start by saying I absolutely loved this game back in the day. One of my favorite games from the 90s. I bought it immediately when I found out it was (finally!) available on GOG. Like others have said, I'm having a lot of issues running the game with 64-bit Windows 7 (on a 5-year-old machine). I've tried countless compatibility modes, 256 colors, etc. and nothing seems to get it to work properly. The text box on the bottom of the screen where you choose your text is blacked out so I can't read any conversation options. In fact, much of the screen doesn't render properly and there are black pixels/blotches everywhere. Even the opening screen where you choose Tour or Game is completely black. (The Cyberflix logo at the start displays fine). Other aspects of the screen don't display properly either, so there's a lot of guess/memory work to try and navigate through the game. As far as audio, as others have said, many sentences stop mid-way through the last word the character is saying. And the background music seems to be choppy. I hope there is a patch in the works. I want nothing more to enjoy this classic game once again. But as it is - at least on my Windows 7 machine - I just don't think I'll be able to. Maybe this title just wasn't meant to exist in a playable form on modern machines? Anyone else having these game issues on Windows 7 64-bit?

buy it

Characters' sentences are cut off at the end, which is annoying but not unbearable. However the game consistently crashes after a few minutes of play. I played this game decades ago and loved it, but this version is sadly unplayable.

Just a few minutes into the game, it crashed.

If you can get over the reductionist view of world history and problematic ethnic caricatures, this is a really solid adventure game with a great sense of place and pacing. Also, this game was released almost 4 months before The Last Express and almost a year before the film Titanic, so it really is not a rip-off of another game or a cash-in on the popularity of one of the highest grossing movies of all time.