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Article #805Re: WHAT IS 7th GUEST LIKE???
From: cd... Nate Carterette
Date: Sun, 09 Jan 1994 04:19
Date: Sun, 09 Jan 1994 04:19
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In a previous article, da...@metronet.com (Mike Golobay) says: >In article <CJBJ2...@cs.dal.ca>, CRF <falk...@ug.cs.dal.ca> wrote: >>Hey, what is 7th guest like?? I though it was something like Alone in the >>Dark. Am I right?? >> > >7th Guest, from Virgin (The Company With The Perpetual BUSY Signal) has >the most astounding multimedia effects ever. The live action samples and >3D rendering of the inside of the mansion, where the story takes place, >are stunning. The quality of the audio and video of this game are >unparralleled anywhere! > >However, the game is painfully tedious and I was completely bored with it >after about 2 days. The monotony of watching the stunning video and >listening to the bloody astounding audio EVERY time you round or corner, >or EVERY time you're trying to solve a puzzle was maddening. The puzzles >were ludicrous, and the game play was dreadfully dull and unimaginitive. >I sold mine to a friend, and never have missed it. > >The producers of 7th guest threw everything into a multimedia orgastic >explosion, and succeeded! However, to sit down and actually *play* the >game left me either frustrated at the tedium of the multimedia blitz or >yawning at the drab game play. > >-- >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >Mike Golobay >da...@feenix.metronet.com >--------------------------------------------------------------------- > Well actually i would recommend it. its really cool and stuff and also it comes wif a videotape. its really not boring and its really scary and i LIKE all the talking nate -- "Spam spam spam humbug," said the Avatar to Iolo.
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmd.de!xlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!cleveland.Freenet.Edu!cd732 From: cd...@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Nate Carterette) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.adventure Subject: Re: WHAT IS 7th GUEST LIKE??? Date: 9 Jan 1994 04:19:23 GMT Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA) Lines: 41 Message-ID: <2go0kb$do5@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> References: <CJBJ2p.DrI@cs.dal.ca> <CJBzuy.M2x@metronet.com> Reply-To: cd...@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Nate Carterette) NNTP-Posting-Host: nextsun.ins.cwru.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit