Syberia II improves upon the first game by introducing more realistic character animation. This game is not a sequel to the first game, but rather a continuation or second chapter. The game includes a recap of the first chapter, so therefore does not require the player to have experienced the first game. Sokal's latest adventure game Paradise has no connections to Syberia but does use the same high quality artwork and a similar interface.
Syberia II continues the adventures of American lawyer Kate Walker from the first game as she abandons her increasingly stressful life in New York in order to accompany an eccentric inventor to a remote land in Russia known as Syberia where surviving remnants of prehistoric mammoths still live. But unknown to Kate, her controlling employer isn't about to let her just disappear on a wild adventure.
Kate begins at a small frontier town called Romansburg, and continues her journey to Syberia with Hans.
Much of Syberia II is spent talking to the denizens of the world. You'll meet tons of interesting and quirky characters, including the lovably neurotic automaton Oscar, but the protagonists are hardly involving. There’s a lot of backstory involving Kate and her reasons for leaving her life behind to follow Hans that should be intriguing, but she’s an awfully bland person and doesn’t seem to have any characteristics other than being an American and a woman. Hans, too, the nutty old inventor you spend the entire first game chasing after, comes off more as an craggy lunatic who’s following a dying dream.
Enough said already, just enjoii the game. I wont spoil the fun by telling the story further.
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