![]() ![]() Repeat play is also enjoyable characters may respond differently, affecting how you reach the end, if not the end itself. ![]() Nits aside, Titanic is a spectacular, creative adventure. And the puzzles are too easy the solutions are almost always close at hand. Although Smethells, your steward, occasionally provides hints and tips, he rarely offers specific advice. You could wander the ship for hours without any action. The ship’s recreation is stunning, the characters are diverse and interesting, and the plots, subplots, and puzzles mesh well with the setting and characters. The clock is ticking and you must resolve your dilemmas before the ship sinks in just two and a half hours (the real Titanic’s sink time). Each character has a distinct personality and responds differently, depending on what statement you select from the pre-scripted menus.Īnd then there’s the iceberg: Now, the game turns into an action thriller in real time. In this phase, you interact with more than 25 crew members and passengers at your own pace. The first half of the game is event based - you explore the ship, figuring out who knows what and what to do next. A detailed map of the ship’s eight decks provides guidance and a helpful “jump-to” feature lets you move around the ship quickly. A helpful direction indicator glows green when you can move forward and red when you can’t. The arrow keys are your feet and, the cursor changes into a hand whenever it’s over an object that you can pick up or manipulate, or when it’s over a character you can interact with. The game interfece is simple and familiar. And Titanic includes several interesting puzzles based on the technology of the day, such as the steam engine and wireless telegraph. The storyline and subplots are in the best secret agent tradition. You’ll also become entangled in one or more subplots involving a Russian double agent, a diamond necklace and its fake replacement, and an unscrupulous steel baron. Your top secret mission is to recover a priceless book, trade it for secret documents, then get into a lifeboat and escape before the ship sinks from its iceberg encounter. You are a British secret agent on a mission as you move through a stunning (and historically accurate) 3D-recreation of the ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic: Adventure Out of Time is one of the the best Myst-like mystery/suspense games released in the past year. ![]()
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