I bought this for steam. Im like 15 hours in and I have not finished the game. The game itself challenges you in ways that makes you slowly take in the enviroment. The humor is great and pokes fun at sierra death scenes and constantly critizes their[sierra] gameplay (other reviewers are critizing this, however in 1987/1989 They were lucasarts/lucasfilms rivals. ) even when you start the game The first line of dialouge you can choose from was should i save my game? the humor breaks down the fourth walls and its witty and yet intelligent. There are alot (when I say alot I mean every lucasarts and pop culture) references is awaiting to be found. Here are some pros vs cons. PROS: Xbox 360 Controller friendly I mean holy shit. it has been converted beautifully. (Again, I dont understand why you would play with it but its perfect). I have my xbox controller plugged in my usb port for games that require it and realize this game feels different playing it as a traditional point and click with a mouse vs xbox 360 controller. (See cons for this) Its a great neo-noir style like game and the characters are amazing. Its not your usual suspects(pun intended.) Multiple characters can solve puzzles perfectly. In other words, with expections of two puzzles i encountered. can be solved with any character. The one character hates the Federal agents so you have to use a non-federal agent to move something. Have not tried that puzzle with the federal agents characters yet. humor is intelligent and characters are unique. you can use the phone book to crank call weird edna from Manaic Mansion hence why this is a squel of sorts also can listen to other people voice mails in the phone book. its a story that drags you in from begining to end. Cons You can not interact or talk with each character. some of the characters lack motivation at times playing with an xbox controller may be fun but does not make this a true point and click game sound track is limited to like 5 songs(?)
Just finished the game. It was poorly scripted,It was good and the acting was good. but, Its a game that leaves you with more questions than answers. It looks like it sets up for another game even with that being said this game is not, or have any relation to gabriel knight. its by the same writer and director, yes. These are two different games, ones a scifi paranormal thriller with occult elements. This is a historical da vinci code type game where it borrows from historical elements. the ending seems forced and thrown together to justify why it was ever made to begin with
I owned the original at some point. This version is slightly different. The drawback is everything modernize expect for the graphics. Granted it was produced in an era of short lived Full motion Videos videgames....(or to people nowadays cutscenes using real actors.) I am writing this video as I play the videogame. The first thing i noticed in the opening seen. Flux(main villian) doesn't flip his cloak back as he did in the original maybe it was because I wanted to skip the lengthy opening credits to actual game play. Doesnt bother me to much. The voices and sounds are pretty much the same as the original. And The window dialouge with the character names and what they are saying had to be turn on. (not a problem , I turned it on when I was in the first five seconds of game play.) The soundtrack sounds better than what i remembered. I had a copy where, somehow i was able to play the soundtrack in windows media player. I had it on my mp3/ipod for a while. The awesome thing i found out by accident is that it recongizes my xbox 360 controller as a controller. And it was perfectly configurated to the game. I do not know why one would play with an xbox controller since you cant physically move the character like in other adventure games nowadays( e.g Game of thrones, walking dead, any tell tale games) But each button on the xbox controller is perfectly sync up to actions such get item go to and open. the movement of the cursor is not overly senstive that you will miss certain areas of the game. It has the option to make it full screen or windowed. Its great if your doing stuff in the backround. bad if your using a laptop, and your dimesions are 1280x 800 because it goes to the next square sized window and words and graphics get distorted since it is downsampling from the original(i am assuming thats the case.) but everything is amazing so far.
