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Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
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 Posted - 03/20/2009 : 12:26:15 PM
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I just finished playing Return To Mysterious Island, based on Jules Verne's Mysterious Island, a cross-continuity with 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. It's a puzzle game (or adventure game, whichever term you like), and I've gotta sound off about it. I lost interest in puzzle games with the conclusion of the Zork series, and while Return To Mysterious Island ain't no Zork or Myst, it's a very beautiful and solidly clever puzzle game that honors Verne's work excellently. As a game, the puzzles are more real-world common-sense puzzles than you usually find, and in the second half, the atmosphere is an excellent balance between the absolutely gorgeous (in sight and sound) island and the eerieness of "what happened here?" And in the third act, when the Verne connection takes over, the discoveries carry a punch that you could almost call shock.
SPOILER IN BEIGE AND TINY PRINT:
Finding the Nautilus had my mouth hanging open, and its condition made me feel sad, the game drew me in THAT much.
Strangest of all, this game seems to have been targetting to the teenage girl demographic. Do teenage girls read Jules Verne? Would the makers have expected them to? Apparently so, because the game treats Verne and his creations with excellent respect.
What are some of your most/least favorite PC games based on movies and literature. How do they do both as games and as tributes to their source material? |
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Neville
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
Spain
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Posted - 03/20/2009 : 4:42:37 PM
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I barely play new PC games these days. The current trend is to upgrade your computer every 12 months so it's up to date, in the end you start having second thoughts.
However, I'm a lot into emulators and old videogames, and I can think of several games based on novels or similar.
a) Graphic adventures based on novels, mostly the Cthulhu Mythos or in Lovecraft directly: Alone in the dark I-III, Shadow of the comet, Prisoner of Ice, Waxworks, Darkseed, Neuromancer, Discworld.
b) Text adventures based on novels: Shogun, Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, The mist, The lurking horror, The hobbit, Shadows of Mordor, Gateway & Gateway II.
There are also several Dune strategy games, the latest of the bunch are "Dune 2000" and "Emperor: Battle for Arrakis". They both feature video cutscenes inspired by the film adaptations.
Most of these are DOS based games, you'll need to use DOSBox to play them in modern computers. The rest will probably have Atari ST or Amiga versions, you'll need an emulator for those systems. |
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Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
342 Posts |
Posted - 03/20/2009 : 5:20:21 PM
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I've played the Dune game, the one by Westwood Studios. It really doesn't have much to do with Dune, but it was good fun.
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Neville
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
Spain
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Posted - 03/21/2009 : 01:18:23 AM
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There are also a bunch of Sherlock Holmes graphic adventures, now that I think of it. Some of them are fairly new, you won't need to fiddle with emulators and stuff to play them.
As for the Dune games, I did play a lot the first two back in the days. The first one was a very beautiful graphic adventure / strategy game and it more or less followed David Lynch's movie. The second was the template after which the Command and Conquer series was created. It had some annoying things, like not being able to control more than one unit at the same time, but the gameplay was really intense. Dune 2000 is basically a Windows remake of the second game in the series. |
Edited by - Neville on 03/21/2009 01:23:04 AM |
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