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Belief and Betrayal (Tech Gamer)
July 24, 2008
Belief and Betrayal is a ‘Point and Click Adventure game’ – something you see a lot less of these days in the age of photo-realistic graphics and free-roaming open-ended game worlds. The ‘Point and Click Adventure’ was a type of game which saw real success back in the 90s - those were the days of great games like Monkey Island, Grim Fandango, Broken Sword – unfortunately here’s where the likeness ends!
Belief and Betrayal states on the box “Unveil dark secrets that could destroy humanity” and “Become enthralled in a secretive and mysterious world of power and intrigue; truth and conspiracy” – which I initially thought, “this sounds an awful lot like the Da Vinci Code, but it might be good all the same”, I think it’s fair to say the developers have taken some inspiration from it!
I installed the game – it took a while, so I went away and make a hot beverage, came back to find it was still installing – it eventually finished, I took this to be a good sign - there must be lots of high quality graphics and audio to make for a really polished game experience. Unfortunately once I loaded the game up I found that this certainly wasn’t the case!
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June 28, 2008
I’ve got great memories of playing the original Lucasarts ‘Sam & Max: Hit the Road’ point and click adventure game back in the 90s - those kind of games were great!
The Sam & Max franchise now continues in an episodic gaming format now from Telltale Games who are one of the pioneers with regard to episodic gaming. The first season of 6 episodes was well received and now that the second season of 5 episodes having finished I’m sure the development team are now really finding their feet with these games.
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