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Summary: a wonderfull game!
Review: Absolutely one of the best pc games I've ever played. Funny, intelligent, absorbing. The problems and puzzles are well designed, so your stratagies and problem solving yield results which move you forward in the game. I never wanted it to end. I'm waiting for the next Zork.
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Summary: A Great Game, but Needs More Stuff
Review: As a longtime player of Infocom's original Zork series and other text adventures and having played a number of other graphical adventure/problem-solving games, I enjoyed Grand Inquisitor a lot. In retrospect, however, I found the puzzles to be a bit obvious and forced in many places (would Activision dare to release something as challenging as "Spellbreaker" in graphical form?). I also wish there was a bit more terrain to explore. Quite honestly, I found Zork Nemesis more challenging despite it being sinister and not in the spirit of Zork.The interface is part of the problem. While necessary to some degree, I sometimes wish the changing/highlighting cursor interface could be downplayed a bit. The 360-degree motion is a nice improvement over typical "slide show" adventure games such as Myst and Riven, but the graphics and rendering are still a tad subpar. If there was fluid motion throughout the environments (i.e., true forward and back motion), well that would truly be something. The pop-up "menu bars" for inventory and spells is useful. The humor in Grand Inquisitor is about right: a bit corny at times but always with its tongue-in-cheek sarcasm intact. The use of low-key actors such as Dirk Benedict, Rip Taylor, Erick Avari and Michael McKean as the voice of the Dungeon Master were all well-chosen and the video sequences were good. Here's hoping the Zork legend continues...this time though, I hope Activision strives to make the next one bigger, more challenging and with an improved interface.
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Summary: Enjoyable, but lacking in many areas
Review: As a longtime player of Infocom's original Zork series and other text adventures and having played a number of other graphical adventure/problem-solving games, I enjoyed Grand Inquisitor a lot. In retrospect, however, I found the puzzles to be a bit obvious and forced in many places (would Activision dare to release something as challenging as "Spellbreaker" in graphical form?). I also wish there was a bit more terrain to explore. Quite honestly, I found Zork Nemesis more challenging despite it being sinister and not in the spirit of Zork. The interface is part of the problem. While necessary to some degree, I sometimes wish the changing/highlighting cursor interface could be downplayed a bit. The 360-degree motion is a nice improvement over typical "slide show" adventure games such as Myst and Riven, but the graphics and rendering are still a tad subpar. If there was fluid motion throughout the environments (i.e., true forward and back motion), well that would truly be something. The pop-up "menu bars" for inventory and spells is useful. The humor in Grand Inquisitor is about right: a bit corny at times but always with its tongue-in-cheek sarcasm intact. The use of low-key actors such as Dirk Benedict, Rip Taylor, Erick Avari and Michael McKean as the voice of the Dungeon Master were all well-chosen and the video sequences were good. Here's hoping the Zork legend continues...this time though, I hope Activision strives to make the next one bigger, more challenging and with an improved interface.
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Summary: Great Adventure Game!
Review: I play adventure games with my children, and we LOVED this game! I am an old-time Zork fan, so I recognized much of the humor and some of the places, etc. This was fun, never too difficult to figure out, but always just challenging enough to keep us thinking. We would highly recommend this game to anyone who enjoys a good challenging adventure game.
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Summary: Great Adventure Game!
Review: I play adventure games with my children, and we LOVED this game! I am an old-time Zork fan, so I recognized much of the humor and some of the places, etc. This was fun, never too difficult to figure out, but always just challenging enough to keep us thinking. We would highly recommend this game to anyone who enjoys a good challenging adventure game.
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Summary: One of the Best!
Review: I play tons of adventure games and found this game to be one of the most well balanced games around. I don't like alot of fighting in my games, and this didnt have that at all. It was funny, great storyline and made for people who want to do more with games than blow things up. I played Zork Nemesis and wasn't too inpressed, but this one is pretty dang cool.
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Summary: Zork has returned
Review: I played Zork back when it was only text and it got me started on Adventure games. Once the graphics were added and playing Return to Zork and Zork Nemisis I thought the Zork I grew up with was gone. It's back! Z:GI has the same sense of humor and playing style of the orginals. I especially appreciated going back to the little white house where it all started. I laughed until my sides hurt.
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Summary: Zork has returned
Review: I played Zork back when it was only text and it got me started on Adventure games. Once the graphics were added and playing Return to Zork and Zork Nemisis I thought the Zork I grew up with was gone. It's back! Z:GI has the same sense of humor and playing style of the orginals. I especially appreciated going back to the little white house where it all started. I laughed until my sides hurt.
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Summary: A Great Game, but Needs More Stuff
Review: I received this game (believe it or not) FREE with my computer. I had no idea what it was, but I tried it out. It's pretty cool! It ranks up there with Myst and Riven, but it has more interaction, more video sequences, more comedy (which, I must say, I have never seen in Myst or Riven.) Anyway, I just wish that there was more stuff you had to do, like, after you beat the game, you unlocked a portal to a new challenge, or to a harder level or something. Bottom line is if you like adventure, but don't want to get involved in something as complicated as Riven (now, I'm not saying Riven's a bad game; it's an awesome game), then Zork: GI is for you!
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Summary: More Zork
Review: If you've played any of the Zork games, you know how much fun they are. Grand Inquisitor is no exception - funny, challenging, and intelligent. I just wish they would make another sequel already.
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