Wed 1 Sep 2010
Posted by Drew Wellman under Indie, Reviews
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Has nothing to do with U2's guitarist.
Over The Edge is the first chapter in the four-part series, The Journey Down. Written and designed by Theodor Waern, the game tells the story of Bwana, a simple fuel station attendant attempting to get he and his sidekick Kito’s plane airworthy in order to take a strange and beautiful woman to the mysterious area known as “The Underland” by going over what is known as “The Edge.” If you haven’t already, prepare yourself for some incredible freeware adventure gaming.
Tags: Adventure Classic Gaming, Adventure Game Studio, Adventure Games, African masks, AGS, animation, episodic gaming, freeware game, Full Throttle, Grim Fandango, Indie Games, journey down, LucasArts, Monkey Island, over the edge, Point and Click, Reggae, theodor waern, Underland
Mon 23 Aug 2010
Posted by Igor Hardy under Indie, Reviews
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Barrow Hill is the first project of Matt Clark, a British independent developer who created the game almost entirely on his own. It is a title I was really looking forward to based on a large amount of positive reviews, because of its unique setting, because of being promoted as rooted in authentic pre-christian history, and also because of it supposedly being a refreshingly subtler take on the horror genre. Publicly available images and game overviews didn’t speak of monsters or gore, but of dark woods, old lore, mystery and suspense. (more…)
Tags: backstory, Barrow Hill, cell-phone, Cornwall, GPS, history, horror, Indie Games, Matt Clark, metal detector, mythology, pagan rituals, PDA, Rec, Stonehenge, The Wicker Man
Mon 9 Aug 2010
Posted by Mark Richards under Non-Indie, Reviews
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Again carrying on directly where the series left off, Beyond the Alley of the Dolls opens with Sam and Max being pursued by an army of Sam clones. The clones are horrible, half-naked, zombie-like evil copies of our hero. Which is a bummer, because an army of one’s own minds would kind-of come in handy – I could have finished this review a week ago!
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Tags: Beyond the Alley of the Dolls, Dogglegangers, episodic gaming, half-naked, hyper-kinetic rabbity thing, Sam & Max, séance, Telltale Games, The Devil’s Playhouse, The Penal Zone, Twilight Zone
Thu 5 Aug 2010
Posted by Jan Jacob Mekes under Non-Indie, Reviews
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After many years of development and troubles with finding a publisher, Autumn Moon Entertainment finally released its first game, A Vampyre Story. AME is the company of Bill Tiller, who is probably best-known for the fantastic backgrounds he created for Curse of Monkey Island. With Tiller at the helm, great quality visuals are pretty much a guarantee, but how does this adventure stack up in other aspects? (more…)
Tue 27 Jul 2010
And so the dreaded holiday season is in full bloom again. Which means that… here comes the long awaited second demaskatory report of my Summer 2008 visit to the famous town of mystery and adventure – Rennes-le-Chateau, France. Sorry for having kept you waiting an entire year for this exciting climax. But now you’ll see just how much deeper did Gabriel Knight 3 manage to bury itself in its lies…
Part II: Behind The Fence
…its lies and factual errors. (more…)
Tags: Adventure Games, Asmodeus, Believe It Or Not, Berenger Sauniere, Blood of The Sacred Blood of The Damned, conspiracy, conspiracy theory, Gabriel Knight, Gabriel Knight 3, Holy Grail, Jane Jensen, Rennes-le-Chateau, Rennes-le-Chateau Church, san graal, sang raal, Sauniere, Sierra
Mon 19 Jul 2010
Posted by Igor Hardy under Indie, Reviews
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Episode 1 of King’s Quest 9 is out. It’s short, shiny and everyone wants to check it out after 5 years of production. So after doing just that I spontaneously decided to review it, the main temptation being it seems that it takes just a couple of sentences to tell that… (more…)
Tags: adventurer's cap, Disney, Don Bluth, Dragon's Lair, fairy tale, fanfiction, fantasy, Graham, Ken Williams, King's Quest, King's Quest 9, Phantasmagoria, Phoenix Online, quest, Roberta Williams, Rosella, Sierra, Tale of A Hero, The Silve Lining, What Is Decreed Must Be
Fri 9 Jul 2010
Posted by Mark Richards under Non-Indie, Reviews
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They Stole Max’s Brain! Indeed, they have. But who is they? In the third episode of The Devil’s Playhouse, Sam sets off alone to find out just that.
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Tags: Egypt, episodic gaming, Film Noir, hyper-kinetic rabbity thing, noir, Sam & Max, Sameth and Maximus, Telltale Games, The Devil’s Playhouse, The Penal Zone, Tomb of Sammun-Mak, Twilight Zone
