Posted on: January 25, 2021
Shantih1
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The pinnacle of the FMV genre
Gabriel Knight 2 is as good a game as can be made with full motion video technology. It gets away from the big-name stunt casting and instead tells a truly engaging story. But it also shows up all the problems of this genre - trading in intriguing puzzle mechanics for a lot of clicking the screen and watching videos. GK2 basically goes like this: you see an FMV scene and then you move the cursor around to find one a hot spot to click. You see a video clip as your character performs an action or moves to a new spot. And then you repeat: You click. You watch movies. For some, that's the death of an interactive experience. But here's the thing: GK2's movies are generally so good you can’t wait to see the next one. There's a fantastic story here spanning hundreds of years and which has been written to take advantage of the fact that we are seeing real human characters interact instead of low-res pixelated versions. For those who played GK1 it feels like a natural progression from a game which tried to bring different periods of history to life and elicit emotions with very limited graphics. It's not so much that GK2 is a great movie, but it's clearly been made with care and attention both in front of and behind the camera. There are a few high points to the gameplay which are worth mentioning. A tape splicing puzzle is fun - as is the novelty of clicking items on a telephone and discovering you can actually call the numbers. Sadly, the puzzles aren’t intrinsically linked to the FMV format. It would have been great to have a puzzle manipulating security camera footage, or trying to detect if someone is lying. But that demonstrates the limits of the mid-90s technology. Ultimately your experience of GK2 will be dictated by how much you're invested in the story and these characters. Basically - by how much you're enjoying the movie. There probably isn't enough game here to make a convert of anyone, but for those who are already on board: it doesn’t get any better.
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