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ALIEN INCIDENT
Always those Aliens
If aliens, lecherous for conquering, were sucked against their will into another galaxy
during a hunt trip, they are in an understandable rather bad mood. Who gets in their way,
should be bargained for everything ... The story published by Gametek and
developed by the Finnish Housemark-Team isn't excessively original. Benjamin is the hero
of Alien Incident. His uncle, a likewise unsuccessful and crazy inventor, just on
Halloween finally reaches the break-through - with the help of accoincidentally hitting
lightning he opens "a wormhole " into another, 60 billion light-years distant
galaxy.
Actually a reason for celebrating, but unfortunately by return the first extraterrestial
visitors come through this hole, and they aren't nice at all, because this spaceship was
hunting a mysterious energy being, now stupidly disappeared on earth. That means trouble,
both for the crew and for our coincidence Einstein, because the green-skinned commander of
the prettily rendered ship shorthand takes the scientist, in order to call him to account
for the disaster by titillation torture in the orbit high above.
Our hero Ben now walks mouse driven through a comic-style world à la "Day of the
Tentacle" (but without such colorful graphics), collects passwords, codes, fuses and
what one needs in an adventure game, talks to a few fellow men from time to time, cracks
safes walks through a few small mazes. Thereby the inventory is available simply by click,
like all of the controls are not difficult at all.
The sound is of quite different kind - unfortunately it's as uninspired as large sections
of the graphics, which often look somewhat outdated. Encouraging basic approaches can be
found with the generally quite logical puzzles and the gamer is not forced to visit the
same places again and again as we know it from other adventure games. Now and then really
genuine humor flashes out ...
Leute hingegen, die einfache, nette Adventures mögen, und auch Einsteiger ins Abenteuergenre kommen bei Alien Incidenet durchaus auf ihre Kosten.
Novice-friendly
Highly visible are the many resemblances to various classic LucasArts games,
without achieving the their class. And so hardcore adventuregamers may down-look
snobbishly on the quite homemade looking graphics and splatter something like "much
too easy and childlike". However people, who like simple, nice adventures, and also
novices to the adventure genre will get their money worth with Alien Incident.
What was noticeable to us:
+ very simple handling
+ rather logical puzzles
- very uncomfortable installation
- dark graphics don't let humor come through correctly
Rating:
- Graphics: 2 of 5
- Sound: 2 of 5
- Comfort: 4 of 5
- Total: 2 of 5
System requirements:
386/25, 8 MB, VGA, 2x CDROM DRIVE, approx. 27 MB on hard disk
Publisher: Gametek
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PC play, © 10/96
adventurearchiv - 01-07-00