- Developer: Activision, Inc.
- Genre: Adventure
- Originally on: Windows (1997)
- Works on: PC, Windows
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It's Friday Night And It's Channel Four. I'm watching the end of the American sit-com Cybill. The plot of this week's LA-based adventure concerns Cybill and her best friend Maryanne attending a friend's wedding and inadvertently disrupting the event.I've laughed approximately three times during the entire twenty-four minutes it's been on. Not a good sign.
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Sep 22, 2017. Zork: Grand Inquisitor is a graphic adventure game developed and published by Activision, and released for Windows in 1997; a second edition for Macintosh was released in 2001. The game is the twelfth in the Zork series, and builds upon both this and the Enchanter series of interactive fiction video games originally released by Infocom.The game's story focuses on the efforts of a salesperson. This was a free game released by Activision to celebrate and promote their newest game, at the time, Zork: Grand Inquisitor. It is a text only adventure done in the style on the original Zork games.The year in 1066. You're a private, 7th class, in the Inquisition Guard. After getting relieved of your post at the Port Foozle Inquisition Gift.
The show ends, the adverts come on and lead us up to the American sit-com Frasier. Five minutes into this latest tale of everyone's favourite Seattle-based radio psychologistand I've already been reduced to a weeping pile of laughter on the floor. A very good sign.
Jump forward several weeks and the adventure game Broken Sword is coming to an end. I've been playing it for approximately three evenings and encountered roughly four really challenging puzzles. Not a good sign.My next assignment for PC is to review Zork: The Grand Inquisitor. The discs are installed and the game begins. Half an hour in and I've already encountered three stunningly designed puzzles. A very good sign.
And your point?
The point is this; be it adventure games or TV comedies, when you have something that is well written and well designed, it shows from the start. ZGI is one such game and, coming so soon after the relative disappointments of Broken Sword 2 and Riven, it shines all the brighter for it.
One of the most notable aspects about the game is how close it actually feels to the original (or 'classic') Zork text adventures. One of my overriding fears for any long running series is when the creative hands are no longer those of the original author(s), that the essential 'magic' will be lost. Look what happened to the Batman movies once they ditched Tim Burton. Fortunately, Laird M. Malamed, Elizabeth Storz, Margaret Stohl and the other designers, artists and programmers behind the game have succeeded in pulling off a Zork adventure that superbly manages to capture the same atmosphere, sense of style and wit and the same feeling of challenge that the original Zorks had in abundance and that the more recent effort of Zork Nemesis didn't manage to achieve.
Although ZTGI may seem to be yet another of these interminable Myst-clones (all glossy graphics and no game), it's as far a cry from the ethereal nonsense of the Mac-loving favourite as Stan Collymore is from an effective strike force. Mainly it's fun. The intro is brilliantly edited and sets the style of the game perfectly, the performances throughout are flawless (including a welcome appearance from The A-Team's Dirk Benedict!) and the puzzles are well designed. Unlike a lot of adventures, you actually have to think about how to solve challenges. Download adobe xd mac crack download.
I do have reservations about the control interface. I was never a really big fan of the 360 panoramic control system in Nemesis and I'm still not sure I like it here. Also there isn't really any character interaction to speak of. But because the rest of the game is so well designed you find yourself overlooking these points. Zork: The Grand Inquisitor is a welcome return to form.
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Zork: The Undiscovered Underground
Windows - 1997
Also available on: Mac - Commodore 64
5 / 5 - 2 votes
Description of Zork: The Undiscovered Underground Windows
Zork: The Undiscovered Underground is a fun Zork game designed by ex-Infocom designers Michael Berlyn and Marc Blank, released as freeware to promote the release of Zork: Grand Inquisitor.
The game is set in the same period as Activision's game; you are a Private in the Inquisition Guard, assigned by the Grand Inquisitor to explore a recently uncovered area of the ancient Great Underground Empire. No sooner had you entered the cave than the entrance collapsed immediately behind you. It seems that you will not only have to explore the mysterious empire, but also find your way out alive.
Although it has been over a decade since Berlyn and Blank's last Infocom games, the designers clearly have not lost touch with the zany humor that made Zork so compelling. In every way, ZTUU is good enough to be an Infocom game, although hardly their best works. The writing is excellent - on par with earlier Zork games in terms of humor and atmosphere.
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As a whole, the puzzles are easier than Zork Zero but more challenging than, say, Beyond Zork. There is even a neat form of in-game hint system to help if you get stuck. The game is shorter than an average Infocom game, but that is by design due to its status as a promotional title.
Despite some pretty far-fetched off-the-wall humor and obscure clues to a few puzzles, ZTUU is a welcome addition to Infocom's Zorkian legend, and one that will delight long-time fans. Recommended!
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- Year:1997
- Publisher:Activision, Inc.
- Developer:Activision, Inc.
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- Year:1997
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