Marek

Those who believe in the absolute purity of adventure games have probably been dismayed (however misled that may be) by our first three days of E3 hype. Dreamfall and Fahrenheit and their “action elements,” Booby Trap and its “puzzle mode”…what’s a pure adventure gamer to do? Well, our fourth E3 preview brings the answer in […]

Now on my list of “really, really great people” are the producers at Legacy Interactive, who are super, super nice people and–amazingly enough–really, really sincere adventure fans. The third in the Law & Order series, Justice is Served, is a much better-looking game that is actually designed to appeal more to adventure fans; there are […]

We squeezed our way into Microids’ press room for a ten-minute demonstration of Still Life, a very dark murder mystery that uses an improved version of the Syberia engine. I can best describe it like this: imagine the grim darkness of Post Mortem with the point & click third-person goodness of Syberia, then mix in […]

A beaming representative of Revistronic Games, developer of Fenimore Fillmore: The Westerner, happily told us just half an hour ago that a North American publisher has been secured. At this time the contract is not signed, and thus they were unable to tell us who the publisher is, but the deal is apparently all but […]

Objective journalism fails me; Fahrenheit is absolutely fricking amazing. Everything about it excited me. Anyone who is a fan of the movie Memento, or the TV show 24, will absolutely love what’s being done here. It is a crime that GameSpot has actually classified the game as “action.” The action sequences are there, I won’t […]

Ubisoft Montreal gave us a very nice demo of Myst 4 this afternoon, and I must say it was extremely impressive. Here are some of the key points: – The interface is fantastic and actually very fun to use, assuming all areas will be implemented as well as the demo one. – The game has, […]

We spent half an hour this afternoon with Ragnar Tornquist, watching a special trailer of Dreamfall: The Longest Journey (which appears to be the full title), followed by fifteen minutes of a playable build, with Ragnar demonstrating some of the unique features. Two things became evident by the end of the meeting: 1. Get used […]

We spent an hour or so this morning on a tour of the upcoming lineup from The Adventure Company. There were show floor demos for Aura: Fate of the Ages, Atlantis Evolution, and Missing (aka In Memoriam). Dark Fall: Lights Out and Return to Mysterious Island were not shown, but are confirmed. We also spoke […]

Well, the five of us (with one still to join) have made it to E3 safe and sound, and completely sleep-deprived. Another shot of adrenaline to go, please! What better way to begin our journey, though, than a one and a half hour sitdown with Jane Jensen. She talked at length about Gray Matter and […]

Developer Quantic Dreams has just posted three brief in-game footages from the upcoming horror themed Fahrenheit at their developer’s site, along with fresh screenshots and more detailed information about the game. Fahrenheit, slated for release by Vivendi late this year (Q4 2004) for Playstation2, Xbox, and PC, promises a departure from traditional adventure game gameplay […]