Mafia

Mafia - Adventure


I have my own sweet memories attached to Mafia, but even otherwise that its one of the best games i have played till date. I used to play this game way back in my college days surrounded by my friends, ho used to enjoy it like a real story. As it progressed I found myself totally immersed in to story, and started getting the feel of the character. Nothing emotional just trying to describe the realism of the game, created by true to life graphics and involving story.



Its a car drive game at times, and suddenly it becomes a first person shooter. Or all of a sudden it gets a third person action game. There are different variations in the game that everybody will enjoy. You can steal a car, drive a cab picking n dropping passengers, or carry on with your mission. The whole game is setup in a city called "Lost Heaven". After months of driving and following the same roads, I started to get the feel of a real city. I used to easily locate the way without looking at the map later on.


Mafia is set in the 1930s, between the fall of 1930 through to the end of 1938, during Prohibition. The game is set in the fictional American city of 'Lost Heaven' (loosely based on New York City and Chicago of the same time period).


The player takes the role of taxi driver Thomas (Tommy) Angelo, who, while trying to make a living on the streets of Lost Heaven, unexpectedly and unwillingly becomes involved in organized crime as a driver for the Salieri crime family, led by Don Salieri.


Through the events of the game's story, Tommy begins to rise through the ranks of the Salieri 'family', which is currently battling the competing Morello family, led by the sharply-dressed Don Morello.


Eventually becoming disillusioned by his life of crime and violence, Tommy arranges to meet a detective in order to tell him his story, to be given witness-protection, and to aid the detective in the destruction of the Salieri crime family. The 'Intermezzo' chapters of the game depict Tommy sitting in a cafe with the detective, relating his life story and giving out important pieces of information at the same time.


Well I used to play it on weekends and it went on for 2 months. And that was great time of my life. Am eagerly waiting for the sequel for this. Looking forward to old times again.

The Road to El Dorado

The Road to El Dorado: Gold & Glory

Well the game is totally based ont he movie "The Road to El Dorado". Its hard to decide which is more fun. Personally I had played the game first and then saw the movie so for me it was fun every single bit of it.


The story begins in a seaside Spanish town, where a pair of bumbling con men, Tulio and Miguel, discover their faces unceremoniously featured on a "wanted" poster, which even they can figure out means it is time to move on. Tulio is a schemer with an overactive imagination and lust for fortune that makes him the perfect partner for Miguel, who is more the adventurer looking for glory before gold.


As the player, you will alternately assume and control the characters of Tulio and Miguel, who often require you to work with them in a sort of teamwork approach in order to meet the many challenges and avoid the numerous traps in the game.

Starting in the Spanish town's marketplace, where you will need all of your guile and luck to escape capture by the town officials, you will come into possession of a map that seems to illustrate a route to El Dorado.


Well ... the fun, humor, and discoveries are just beginning as you move on to new worlds of adventure from the brig aboard Cortes's ship to the jungles of South America and eventually stumble into the magical city of El Dorado, where you will find that life is not as simple as you might have wished and you are drawn into the scam of a lifetime.

Along the way, the lives of Tulio and Miguel will be complicated by other characters that they meet, including Altivo, a proud war horse, Tzekel-Kan, the high priest of El Dorado, and Chel, a beautiful native girl, who's a bit of a con artist herself. There is always a lot of humor to balance the nonstop challenges of the puzzles and the traps that you will encounter, and it is evident that in order to succeed you will need to have the skill to play as Tulio and Miguel in a teamwork fashion.


So ... as Tulio and Miguel strive to fulfill their dreams of gold and glory, their friendship will be tested, and they will eventually discover that the fate of El Dorado will be determined by their stealth, wits, and actions.

Can they outwit the schemes of Tzekel-Kan and the fierce Stone Jaguars? Will they save El Dorado from the plundering of Cortes? What will happen to the treasured gold of El Dorado?


I found the story to be captivating, and there are many features in this game that made it a real joy to play, but I would be remiss if I did not report that Gold and Glory: The Road to El Dorado is easy to moderate in difficulty and also quite short in the time that it should take the average gamer to complete the game. I consider myself to be a plodder when it comes to game play, and I was able to finish the game in about six hours, clearly a personal best for me with regard to brevity of game play.

Post Mortem

Post Mortem

Syberia II

Syberia II - Adventure Game


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.

Syberia

Syberia adventure game


Syberia is a 2002 computer adventure game conceived by Benoît Sokal, developed by Microïds and published through The Adventure Company.


It is a third-person, mouse-driven, semi-realistic/semi-surrealistic adventure game in which the player must solve various puzzles and follow certain procedures in order for the linear storyline to proceed. As a pure graphical adventure game, Syberia follows the guidelines first introduced by LucasArts : It is impossible to die or to get stuck at any moment in the game, which allows the user to fully immerse him/herself in Syberia's universe without the fear of making a mistake or the constant need of saving the game.


The game contains a dramatic subplot, conducted via calls received on Kate's cell phone, involving Kate's deteriorating relationship with her fiancé.


In the game, the player controls the actions of American lawyer Kate Walker, who is sent to a remote European village in order to finalize the take-over of a toy factory there. Once at the village, Kate learns that the woman who owned the factory has just died, and that she has a brother who must be contacted in order for the takeover to proceed. Her mission takes her across thousands of miles, and leads her to question her own lifestyle.