De tien beste oldskool adventure games van Sierra

RDJ134 9 februari 2012 om 19:02 uur

Ooit in een ver verlende was Lucas Arts en Sierra de ongekroonde koningen van het adventure genre, iets wat helaas nu bijna zo goed als dood lijkt te zijn. Maar gelukkig hebben we nog genoeg oude games om op terug te kijken, en dat is precies waarom de website Topless Robot deze top tien met Sierra adventure titels gemaakt.


10) Police Quest II: The Vengeance

Of Sierra's Quest Family, Police Quest is probably the most underappreciated series. The concept was ambitious, as Ken Williams and former police officer Jim Walls sought to create an interactive crime thriller not only set in the real world but beholden to actual regulations and procedure. In the first game, in which series hero Sonny Bonds was a California patrol officer in the fictional town of Lytton, it meant pulling people over and spending a lot of time gambling undercover. In this sequel, Bonds has been promoted to detective, and while protocol is still an issue, the activities you get to do are a little more varied and engaging than giving speeding tickets. You must track down your old foe, criminal mastermind Jessie Bains (supposedly based on a real person) before he kills you, your girlfriend and the others who testified against him. This necessarily leads to gunplay, SWAT team raids, bomb disposal and even a scuba diving mission. And as with the first game, one unlawful move could sink your entire career and net you a finger-wagging endgame message from the pixelated head of Jim Walls himself (the Game Over screen in the third Police Quest was even more hilarious). So not only can you not draw your gun willy-nilly, you have to make sure you're in a situation when doing so is legally justified. You would think all of this would make the game too strict, but it actually makes it more fun, in a weird way, since there's at least logic to the puzzles, even if it's government-mandated logic. Don't forget the funky synthesizer score, another element that makes this feel like an episode of some lost '80s cop show. In a good way. The best, in fact.




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