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Halloween 2015 Gaming Special, Day 4: “Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers – 20th Anniversary Edition” (PC)
Remakes are difficult to do, especially when it comes to gaming. So does Pinkerton Road’s Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers – 20th Anniversary Edition have enough new content and stay true to the original point-and-click adventure, while also being … Continue reading
Posted in Game reviews, Gaming
Tagged adventure game, Angel Heart, Anniversary Edition, cinema, cinematic, classic gaming, DRM-free, fiction, Gabriel Knight, GOG, Good Old Games, history, horror, Jane Jensen, mature, mystery, Phoenix Online Studios, Pinkerton Road, point-and-click adventure, puzzles, remake, Sierra, Sierra On-Line, Sins of the Father, storytelling, thriller, Voodoo
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Halloween 2015 Gaming Special, Day 3: “Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned” (PC)
When 3D engines took over the games industry, adventure games tried to jump on the bandwagon, but usually failed to impress. Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned might not have succeeded in setting the world … Continue reading
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Tagged adventure, adventure game, Blood of the Damned, Blood of the Sacred, Broken Sword, Christianity, DRM-free, France, Gabriel Knight, GOG, Good Old Games, Henry Lincoln, history, Holy Blood, Holy Grail, horror, Jane Jensen, Michael Baigent, point-and-click, puzzles, religion, Rennes-le-Château, Richard Leigh, Robert Holmes, Serpent Rouge, Sierra, Sierra On-Line, SYDNEY, thriller, Tim Curry, vampires
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Halloween 2015 Gaming Special, Day 2: “The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight Mystery” (PC)
There was a time when FMV (full motion video) games were all the rage, but few succeeded as well as Jane Jensen’s The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight Mystery did. A game that even surpasses the first Gabriel Knight and … Continue reading
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Tagged adventure game, Bavaria, censorship, Dean Erickson, DRM-free, FMV, full motion video, Gabriel Knight, Germany, GOG, Good Old Games, Halloween, Herrenchiemsee, Jane Jensen, King of Bavaria, Ludwig II, Munich, Neuschwanstein, Nicholas Worth, Peter J. Lucas, point-and-click adventure, puzzles, Richard Wagner, Sierra On-Line, The Beast Within, The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight Mystery
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Halloween 2015 Gaming Special, Day 1: “Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers” (PC)
Halloween is over, but our gaming special week is just about to begin. If you’re wondering what happened to the counting method of 2013 (as Costume Quest being Day 8), just remember that this wasn’t really the eighth day of … Continue reading
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Tagged adventure game, Angel Heart, cinema, cinematic, classic gaming, DRM-free, fiction, Gabriel Knight, GOG, Good Old Games, Heavy Rain, history, horror, Jane Jensen, King’s Quest VI, Life is Strange, LucasArts, Mark Hamill, mature, Michael Dorn, mystery, point-and-click adventure, puzzles, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Sierra, Sierra On-Line, Sins of the Father, Star Trek, Star Wars, storytelling, The Walking Dead, thriller, Tim Curry, Voodoo
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Kickstarter adventures: Moebius: Empire Rising (PC)
It’s been quite some time since Gabriel Knight creator Jane Jensen returned to the adventure game genre. With the help of Kickstarter and Cognition publisher Phoenix Online Studios, is the classic point-and-clicker Moebius: Empire Rising a true return to form … Continue reading
Posted in Game reviews, Gaming
Tagged Jane Jensen, Phoenix Online Publishing, Phoenix Online Studios, Pinkerton Road Studio
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