The Book of Unwritten Tales is the best adventure game to come out since last year’s Gray Matter from Jane Jensen. It’s another throw back to the glory days of Sierra Online and LucasArts point and click games. The Book of Unwritten Tales features great voice acting, beautiful graphics, and a story that is chock full of jokes, witty comments, and a brilliant cast of characters. It has a lot in common with Gray Matter-you get to control more than one character, you can find all clickable items with a touch of the space-bar, and characters tend to hand invisible…
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Extra Lives
I then realized I was contrasting my aesthetic sensitivity to that of some teenagers about a game that concerns itself with shooting as many zombies as possible. It is moments like this that can make it so dispritingly difficult to care about video games. ~author Tom Bissell I’ve been an adventure game addict since I bought my first computer back in the Dark Ages of 1982-the game that hooked me was Infocom’s Zork. My latest video game love is The Witcher 2, an adventure game with a lot more fighting and running than puzzling and thinking. I still find myself…
Adventure Games
My first true love of the computer universe was Infocom. This company made Adventure games, more specifically, Text Adventure games. These were games that were both fun and mondo annoying. They were fun as they were often funny and zany and they had all kinds of off the wall references. They were annoying as you could never be sure exactly what the game writers wanted you to type into the text line. They were also a bit more challenging than modern games-as there was no Universal Hint System to sneak a peek or grab an instant solution to a tough…