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There are certain things in this world that just the sight of conjure up strong emotions. Lighthouses are one of those things. Lighthouses seem to invoke a kind of mystery that few things do. It’s a wonderful premise for a game but one the designers don’t base their whole story on. They build an interesting […]

Let me start out by saying that I played this game at my parent’s house. What does this have to do with Atlantis II? While playing my father wandered into the computer room to see what was up. Within minutes he was seated and started playing the game with me. In short he really enjoyed […]

Let’s start this review with some background information. For those unfortunate souls living under a rock for the past few years, The Crystal Key II is the sequel to The Adventure Company’s best-selling game of the same name. The first game has sold in excess of 500,000 copies in North America alone, so no doubt, […]

Noir, as in film noir, is that completely co-opted genre of filmmaking that was originally invented to showcase movie directors’ cynicism with the world. In great movies like Out of the Past and The Big Sleep, clever plot twists, hard-boiled dialogue, and dangerous dames offered viewers an exciting glimpse of society’s underbelly. Noir the game, […]

Mysterious Journey II: Chameleon (MJII) is the sequel to Mysterious Journey: Schizm. In MJII the main character, Sen, awakens after two hundred plus years to find out that he is being held responsible for a war that almost wiped out his world. Not sure if he is guilty, and unsure of what happened to divide […]

Are you a world-beater? A person who is the best there is at games? A champion who knows no suitable challenges? Well if you are, then Blue Ice is the game you have been searching for. In a story reminiscent of Titus Groan, you enter the world of Icia. A barren and frozen wasteland that […]

Inspired by the adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Mystery of the Mummy has Holmes investigating the disappearance, and assumed death, of a famed Egyptologist. Elizabeth Montcalfe has asked Holmes to check out the Montcalfe Mansion, a Victorian home that doubles as a museum, for clues to her father’s disappearance. You quickly find yourself exploring the house’s […]

The Messenger is one of the best edu-tainment games on the market. However, to think of it as merely a history lesson is too limiting and unfair to the sprit of the game. Though developed with the help of the Reunion des Musees Nationaux, it is more than just a guided tour of the Louvre […]

In Reah you play an overly ambitious reporter, who has been selected to travel to a ultra secret military installation to cover a story. Reah, as the player is told, is a barren planet that is barely habitable, this however has not impeded the military from setting up an area 51 type base there. Why? […]