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I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream

Great Story - Awful Execution

This is a fantastic science fiction 'what if', however the execution is pretty bad. I love the story and the concepts, but getting to the end is a painful repetitive bore. Be prepared to listen to the same canned dialog over and over as you work through this using trial and error. You have to complete 5 individual story lines, but each one has multiple places where the key dialog branch will not display because you did not interact with everything on the screen in the right order. Example: the Anubis character will not give you a needed dialog option unless you looked at and tried to use the sarcophagus just prior to that. Even the official strategy guide leaves out these gems which you will only find by repeating each section until you stumble on the required permutation. My aversion to repetition of the same dialogs over and over, got the best of me and I could not finish this. It was taking more time than I wanted to put into it. If you like that kind of thing you might like this, but it was a disappointment for me. Again, it is a great story, the graphics and game play are serviceable, but, you have been warned about the need to complete seemingly trivial unrelated tasks (you forgot to look at that poster on the wall!) in the right order, or you will not be able to progress.

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