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Instead of having a series of connected locations the main areas are spread out over a larger space connected by mostly empty areas. The game doesn’t break any new ground in the genre, or even experiment with it, but this doesn’t get in the way of the fun. Chris Barrie from Red Dwarf provides the voice for the titular petulant teenager who is plucked from his life and sent on a quest to rescue a wizard. Instead of coming across like a cheap knock off this game stands up on its sold writing and imaginative set pieces. It’s a shame about the slump that occurs when the ‘action’ kicks in.ĭuring the heyday of the Lucasart’s era of point ‘n’ click adventure British studio Adventuresoft got on the bandwagon with Simon the Sorcerer, a game that unashamedly borrows from another very popular title that appears on this list. A new thought process is required for the different style of puzzles making it feel unique in the field. The characters are very cool (especially the arch-villain voiced by Mark ‘The Joker’ Hamill), the quasi-futuristic setting is used to good effect. Published by Lucasarts and designed by Tim Schafer this puts it high up in the adventure game standard. It was a refreshing approach to the genre that came at the time when they were all starting to look the same. He was the leader of a motorcycle gang who has a very straight forward approach to puzzles. Guybrush is a weakling wannabe pirate, Simon is an obnoxious teen, Bernard is a massive geek and so on.
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Most adventure games focus on the underdog hero, the nerd.
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Still it’s a great game that is worth a dive into. The second game cleared these issues up but wound up being very dialogue heavy. The first came was pretty nifty but held back by middling controls and some downright silly puzzles. Visiting Klatch, Four-Ex and even Death’s Realm this is a treat for fans of the fantasy world. Putting characters into the shoes of failed wizard Rincewind (wonderfully voiced by Eric Idle) you travel the flat planet looking for the Grim Reaper who managed to blow himself to kingdom come, preventing people the world over from being able to shuffle off the mortal coil. The odd world of Discworld, the meta-fantasy epic, is the perfect setting for a classic point and click adventure with a whole cast of screwballs to interact with. Terry Pratchett’s unrelenting Discworld book series has developed into almost 50 volumes, movies, animated shows, cookbooks and everything else – a video game was inevitable. Being available on many current platforms there’s no reason not to enjoy this classic. The great story and voice acting have kept it popular for over a decade and spawned multiple sequels.Īlthough the art style is reminiscent of old school animations it is much more serious in tone that most games of the genre, making it popular among adult gamers. Playing as an American tourist who gets caught in a bomb blast in Paris, you must try and unravel a conspiracy involving the Templar order across Europe and the Middle East. Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templarsīreaking the mold of the usual fantasy game settings of colourful, magical, fantasy worlds Broken Sword is set in the real world (mostly). These days there are a number of brilliant indie made games of this ilk, and Telltale have successfully turned out some games based on popular titles, but today we’re going to cast our gaze back to the time when pixel sprites still looked better than polygons and remember these gems.ġ0. With no money to be made the genre slipped under the waves of progress. The games translated poorly to the now popular gaming machines and audiences lost interest. As the console gaming market began to develop past simple sprites the genre started to flounder. In short, you’d direct a character around a location finding items to pick up, characters to speak to and puzzles to solve that will inevitably lead you the mcguffin du jour and onto the next part of the game. They were simple fare, forsaking action and speed for slower paced, story focused games that were driven my environmental interaction and puzzle solving. Back in the good ol’ days when gaming was primitive (the 1990s) there was a large and popular genre called ‘point-n-click’ adventure games.