This second episode in a series of five is really good. Strong Bad the hilarious comic web character is back, in another exciting point click adventure from Telltale. The game begins with Strong at his usual best replying to his emails. Unfortunately all is not going well as the king of the town who incidentally is a Santa impersonator is taxing the use of email. This couldn’t be worse for our hero as it is his life’s work.
This game is the collaboration of two unique styles namely point click adventure plus flash cartoons to make a superb new series of games involving Strong Bad. The character is a suave sophisticated man with attitude, cool quirky and off beat or so he would have us believe anyway. In reality he is a weird looking green eyed monster who wears boxing gloves and is the main character of a web based comic. Released for the Wii it is a first rate addictive game that I have had many a happy hour playing.
This is the final game in a series of five that have been a superb collection of adventure stories featuring our favourite duo Sam and Max. Our intrepid pair of dog plus rabbit detectives are still trying to solve the mystery of Bosco’s missing soul. This episode sees them travelling to Hell where they hope the answer to the case lies. Another great point and click adventure from Telltale gives us hours of game play fun while answering a build up of questions from the previous episodes.
Chariots of the Dogs is the fourth episode in what is proving to be an excellent series of point and click adventure games. Featuring our stalwart detectives Sam and Max, a dog and rabbit comic duo who are brought to the game world by Telltale Games, it brings together the previous three episodes in a very clever story that is both engaging and amusing.
I wasn’t so sure when I heard the next episode in the Sam and Max detective adventures was going to involve zombies as there are so many of these games around but there was no need for concern. This point and click game is very good plus it loses none of the humour or excitement of the previous episodes in this series. It is full of fun and great puzzles while capturing the essence of a good zombie story. Sam and Max of course are still the quirky dog plus rabbit duo we have come to know and love.
Sam and Max our comic book detectives are back in a great point and click adventure game that sees them stepping into the Bermuda Triangle and on to Easter Island. The intrepid dog detective that walks on two legs, wears a Homburg hat, along with his side kick a quirky looking rabbit, are on the road to solve yet another strange mystery. Fans of the Sam and Max games will love puzzle solving while helping the detective duo complete their assignment.
Sam and Max are back with a whole lot of festive fun to entertain you for hours. This fantastic double act of a dog who walks on two legs and rabbit detectives is yet another superb point and click 3D adventure game from the Telltale Games Company. Packed full of a variety of puzzles, tasks plus dialogue interaction you will have hours of fun playing Ice Station Santa.
The game begins with our dynamic duo battling against a giant robot, (that was a Christmas present), destroying their town. Once you have destroyed the robot Sam and Max are on their way to The North Pole where Santa has gone berserk sacking all his elves, while he is holed up with a gun shooting at anything or anyone that moves. The only 3 characters Santa has ignored are the massive headed Soda Poppers, so here is where the game proper begins.
In Puzzle Agent 2 we once again join Nelson Tethers where we left him at the end of the last game. Tethers is an FBI agent in charge of puzzle solving and is still in Scoggins Minnesota investigating strange happenings at the eraser factory even though his superiors have actually closed the case. This is a great sequel to the first game with the same areas to traverse plus similar puzzles to solve. That said if you enjoyed playing episode one and hoped for a fun follow up you will not be disappointed.
Puzzle Agent is very much what it says on the packet, it is a puzzle game but it isn’t just any old puzzle game far from it. Created by Telltale Games this point and click puzzle game is jam packed with brain teasers that will keep you occupied for hours. There are plenty of laughs, along with a good challenge and a great little story that will amuse plus engross the player young or old.
We are back again in Clappers Wreake the tawdry town where drug dealers, hookers and general low lifes are the norm. The evil mastermind that has haunted our intrepid hero Detective Inspector Hector is still at large. This is the third episode in what has been a great series of adventure games from Telltale. Newcomers who haven’t played the first two episodes have missed a real treat so I would definitely recommend the games to you but just to bring you up to speed here are a few details regarding Hector.
Being the hero plus the main character in the game doesn’t necessarily mean that Hector is all good. I have a good deal of affection for the character myself but adjectives that describe him accurately are foul mouthed, belligerent, politically incorrect and devious. He does nothing by the book and is not averse to the odd bit of violence to get his way. That said he does have a certain charm as well as being hilariously funny so if you do not offend easily plus can see the funny side of life you will love this point and click game.
Chief Inspector Hector’s back once again in a hilariously lewd adventure that will amuse, with his none political correctness, along with all his other foibles such as ignorance, foul mouthedness, corrupt nature plus hatred of everything and everybody attitude. The last we saw of him he was in a sticky situation stuck in a death trap scenario. Will he escape? I do hope so as I have come to like this loveable rogue.
For those of you who are not familiar with the TV series featuring Hector I will give you a little background so he isn’t a complete stranger. Hector in fact is a detective inspector that has some not so pleasing attributes. He basically loathes just about everyone, is the most unpolitically correct person you could meet,is ignorant to the extreme, is foul mouthed plus hates kids. Apart from all that he’s great! He is actually hilarious so will have you in stitches as he goes about solving crime while most of the things he says or does are done pretty tongue in cheek so shouldn’t offend anyone with a good sense of humour.
The survivors is the last in this series of Jurassic Park adventures. Here we see our main character David Vaughn the security man on the island which has been closed to visitors. He has the unenviable task of keeping the surviving dinosaurs on the island without of course becoming a tasty meal himself. His boss however has other ideas and has sold out to another outfit who wants dinosaur DNA so that they can carry on breeding the monsters. David’s task is to stop this from happening while at the same time rescue fellow security officers plus characters bringing them to safety.
This next episode, the third of the Jurassic Park series begins with the problems from the previous episode being sorted out without delay so the story can continue, heading along in another direction. This time around our heroes discover there is a fault with the geothermal power plant on the island so have to rectify this before the whole island is blown to smithereens. Fans of the films will have been waiting for this episode hoping it will not disappoint and for the most part it doesn’t.
This is the second game of four in the series following on from The Intruder which was a great introduction to the Jurassic Park story. Just in case you are new to the game plus have not seen the films this adventure game is set on an island that is inhabited by dinosaurs. These creatures have been recreated by scientists but as with such projects things soon begin to go wrong. We pick up the story where we left it with our characters stranded on the island while three mercenaries are air lifted down onto the terrain to try to rescue them.
The mercenaries namely Oscar, D-Caf and Yoder soon find the heroes from last time around but end up being split from one another. Now their task is to reunite and find a way off the island without being eaten by the dinosaurs. It’s an interactive game where you have to listen to the conversations of the characters plus solve puzzles along the way by point and click method.
Based on the comic book series by Robert Kirkman The Walking Dead Episode 1, the first of five, is a zombie tale of the undead that fans of ghoulish adventures will love. There are many zombie games around so you could be forgiven for thinking this is just another one of the many but you would be wrong. This game has originality and style that surpasses the rest proving that Telltale once again have their finger on the pulse when it comes to transferring great comic book stories into the game realm.
Jurassic Park was a phenomenal film full of adventure and edge of the seat tension. Telltale Games have now brought this dinosaur epic to life again in the form of Jurassic Park the game. The game has got that hide your eyes fear factor plus is a good adventure game that has been well produced.
The story is really interesting and begins as Dennis Nedry a worker at the park steals the DNA of the dinosaurs to sell on to a rival company. Dennis meets with a grisly end on the way so never reaches his destination. The rivals decide to enter Jurassic Park to find Dennis, not such a great idea! The characters are very diverse including the vet Gerry Harding, his daughter Jessi, Nima the mercenary, Dr Sorkin a scientist plus two mercenary soldiers there to protect them all. The interaction between the characters is really interesting plus is important to the game play so listen to what they are saying to one another.
This is what the previous four games have been building up to! The grand finale of the Back to the Future series which has been awaited with much anticipation and does not fail to deliver. The final game is phenomenal and that is no exaggeration. The story, the graphics, the soundtrack, the puzzles, are simply superb. With all us seasoned adventure gamers having such high expectations for this final game Telltale must have felt somewhat under pressure but it really does not show as the game lives up to everything expected of it and more.
Outatime! Is the culmination of all the adventures plus puzzle solving leading to a natural ending to the story of Marty and Doc our beloved heroes. The puzzles in this game are certainly challenging in parts but are plentiful in nature so there is plenty to get your teeth into. Some of the scenes are fantastic such as the car chase where we see the DeLorean tearing along at break neck speed or the near gun fight in the local saloon that adds plenty of edge of the seat nerves to the pot. There is of course the statutory optional hint system again this time round that is great if you get really stuck or frustrated with a particular puzzle.
We have now reached the penultimate game of this series and what a fantastic one it is. Double Visions has all the qualities of the previous episodes and more. Fans of the Back to the Future films like myself will find this episode full of nostalgia and fun as once again it brings to life our heroes Marty McFly and Doc Brown plus loads of Sci Fi generated adventures to keep you occupied for hours.
Double Visions begins where episode three left off back in 1931 at the precise point where everything went pear shaped. Doc is head over heels in love with Edna Strickland much to Marty’s annoyance so the object is to get Doc to see her for what she really is and basically dump her. This is achieved once again through the solving of puzzles plus collection of items using the point and click method.
As the third game in this series Citizen Brown suffers a little from mid term blues in my opinion but never the less is a good game that suggests that future episodes will be great. It has all the same hallmarks as the previous two episodes with Marty mainly and Doc in the thick of it as usual problem solving and working out puzzles to achieve their goals.
The story begins as Marty McFly returns to 1986 to find that Hill Valley the leafy town he knows and loves has been transformed into a kind of fortress with a “Big Brother is watching you” attitude. Doc Brown is now First Citizen with the towns new motto being “Relax we have everything under control”control being the key word here. Marty has to somehow discover what has happened and hopefully bring the town back to its former state.
