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Quest for Glory III: Wages of War - With A Little Help From My Friends - WON!
By Alex Please note that the above bit of artwork is an unused asset from Quest for Glory III, but it’s such a good picture that’s so representative of the game’s end sequence that I had to put it in....
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Game 96: B.A.T. II – The Koshan Conspiracy (1992)
By IlmariI am afraid I am in the difficult position of a vocabulary apprentice replacing two very able wordsmiths. Firstly, we usually let a single reviewer do one series so that through cumulative...
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Inspector Gadget - Deja-Vu in London, Too
Written by Joe PranevichWelcome back! We’ve been traveling around the world so much we will soon need to hire Rockapella. (What? Is that reference too dated?) In the last two weeks, we’ve rescued one...
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Discussion Point: What kind of game deserves a high score in Puzzles and...
By The TAG TeamIt’s certainly easier to make a bad than a good adventure game, and therefore it is no wonder that we’ve seen a lot more examples of the former than the latter. Indeed, our reviewers...
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Quest for Glory III: Wages of War - Final Rating
by AlexQuest for Glory III: Wages of War was not planned. It was an afterthought, a bridge, a diversion based on the idea that Rakeesh and Uhura’s homeland and story was too interesting to just be...
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B.A.T. II - Fighting the machine
By IlmariLast time I had just finished creating my B.A.T. agent, Andy Panthro, and released him in the planet called Shedishan, where Koshan trust was trying to get a monopoly for the production of...
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Inspector Gadget - I Escaped a Crane Down in Africa
Written by Joe PranevichThe voice of the people have spoken! Although I had considered fast-forwarding through the remainder of the episodes, you have convinced me to savor the events as they come. As...
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Discussion point: What kind of game deserves a high score in Interface and...
By The TAG TeamInterface and InventoryWe have seen many different kinds of interface in adventure games, starting from parsers and ending with various mouse driven setups. We are accustomed to...
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B.A.T. II - All Roads Lead to Roma
By IlmariLast time I had got the mission to check out the major deed holders of echiatone industry, but before that I wanted to take a tour of the town. I had just doubled my capital and I was...
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Inspector Gadget - From Russia with Gadgets
Written by Joe PranevichInspector Gadget isn’t a bad game by any stretch, but as I am inching closer to the end it is becoming… boring. The writing is still good (and occasionally brilliant), but the...
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Discussion point: What kind of game deserves a high score in Story and Setting?
By The TAG TeamStory and SettingIf puzzles are the defining element of adventure games, story and setting are essential for a full adventure game experience. In the beginning, adventure games often had...
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B.A.T.II - The Great Bank Robbery
By IlmariAfter fully exploring the city of Roma, I had found one quest - get the minority shareholders of echiatone mining in Bedhin 6 sell their deeds to you, so that you can kick the Koshan family...
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B.A.T. II - The Simulator Conspiracy
Written by IlmariLast time I had a problem how to continue, since I had no clue where to find any more deeds. Well, it turned out that the solution was to search through the belongings of everyone...
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Discussion point: What kind of game deserves a high score in Sounds and...
By The TAG TeamSounds and GraphicsThere’s a central dilemma in reviewing this category: should the scale reflect the technological development or be completely independent of it? In other words, should...
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Inspector Gadget - Home of the Shiny Green Suit
Written by Joe Pranevich Here we are at last, Hong Kong! In my west-to-east tour of the world of Inspector Gadget, this is the last stop. I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t ready for the game to be over...
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B.A.T. II - Lost!
By IlmariWill they ever release me from this torment?The developers of Koshan Conspiracy have shown how they love doing simulators. Now they decided to create the most realistic prison simulator ever,...
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Discussion point: What kind of game deserves a high score in Dialogue and...
By The TAG TeamDialogue and Acting(No, we haven’t forgotten E, we are just leaving it as the last category.)Although the name of this category mentions acting, it is just dialogue most of the games...
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B.A.T. II - Final Rating
By IlmariFor game developer, a hybrid appears to a lucrative possibility. Why satisfy yourself with selling a game to adventure game fans, when CRPG fans might also be a potential target of marketing?...
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Inspector Gadget - Won!
Written by Joe Pranevich We made it! After madcap (get it?) adventures across four continents and rescuing all of the U.N. environmental ambassadors, we finally arrive back in New York. For acclaim and...
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B.A.T. II - Won!
Written by TornadoHello, I’m Tornado, and I'm a relatively new reader of this wonderful blog. Through it, I've been able to relive games I played years ago and learn about those I missed. And so, I’m...
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