Have you played Amerzone?

by **avskum** » Fri 18 May 2007 23:47

Hello. Have any of you played the first Benoit Sokal game - Amerzone ? i finished it yesterday. I played it on a brand new computer with vista, but it went fine! And i found it for only 10 kronor ( about a dollar or a euro ) on a cheap supermarket. What a bargain!

It is very good, but not as good as Syberia. The graphics are of course a bit cruder, the colours are much darker, and one thing that is a bit boring is that the whole game is in 1st person view and you never get so see or hear the main charachter talk.

But still very good and stunningly beautiful, especially the cut scenes.

by **gail** » Sat 19 May 2007 15:02

Glad you could play Amerzone. I too enjoyed this game. Walking under water was a new experience in a game for me.

by **Pifou** » Sat 19 May 2007 17:00

yes, Amerzone is a great game...
the only disadvantage is that it is an old game...
i would appreciate very much if it could be remasterized with modern softwares...

:wink:

by **V.N.** » Sat 19 May 2007 22:00

avskum wrote:and one thing that is a bit boring is that the whole game is in 1st person view and you never get so see or hear the main charachter talk.

I haven't played it, but I think they made the game in 1st person so the player would feel that he/she was in charge and not just 'following' another charachter, if you understand what I mean, and then it wouldn't be possible to hear what the main charachter says, because the real main charachter is the person playing the game..

I talk too much of something I know nothing of :-/

10 kroner is very cheap! Is the game in a good condition then?

Pifou wrote:
yes, Amerzone is a great game...
the only disadvantage is that it is an old game...
i would appreciate very much if it could be remasterized with modern softwares...

Another of my fav-games is almost ten years old, and it can be played perfectly in XP, and to be able to do that, you just need to know how...

(That sort of leaves a big gap)

by **phil1908** » Sun 20 May 2007 17:17

nice to see you between us...
amerzone was naturally a fine game but with the evolution od the technics, the 2 syberia are sure a level higher

by **avskum** » Sun 20 May 2007 18:29

V.N. wrote:
10 kroner is very cheap! Is the game in a good condition then?

yes it wasn´t used. It was brand new. The cover wasn´t very appealing, grey and blurry ( like the cover of the old book in the inventory) and it said nothing on the back of the cover either. http://www.abcgames.sk/?p=cdobaly_zobraz&ID=227

Hadn´t i know what it was, hadn´t i already played Syberia i would never have noticed this game, let alone bought it.

By the way - i didn´t know Amerzone was also realeased to Playstation: http://www.vgames-vjuegos.us/catalog/Amerzone.jpg

So was Syberia II, but not Syberia I, right ?

by **gail** » Mon 21 May 2007 21:21

This is what my boxed version of Amerzone looks like with a cover that opens up to very colorful screen shots of the game. Bet you are glad you bought it.

by **avskum** » Tue 22 May 2007 09:17

i almost got stuck in the swamp near the end of the game. i walked around forever without finding my way! Eventually i had to look at a walkthrough on the internet!

by **gail** » Tue 22 May 2007 11:07

Walkthrough's have saved me before too... especially for Fahrenheit.

by **Pifou** » Tue 22 May 2007 18:58

gail wrote:This is what my boxed version of Amerzone looks like with a cover that opens up to very colorful screen shots of the game. Bet you are glad you bought it.

What a nice boxed version of Amerzone you got Gail... :shock:

i am now trying to find collector version of every B. Sokal games...
each time i see one i buy it and sometimes i offer it to somebody who count a lot for me...

by **avskum** » Tue 22 May 2007 19:48

what is so special about the collectors editions? what do they contain?

by **Pifou** » Wed 30 May 2007 19:29

xcuse me for the late answer...
in collector editions you can find (in france) low price packs (approx. $15) with :
- Amerzone, Syb1 + Syb2 or
- Amerzone + Syb1 and extras or
- Syb1 + Syb2 + 30 mn making off and pictures of Syberia universe...

++
Pif

by **Sunich** » Thu 31 May 2007 12:56

the game's too old for me to play it now.

dated visual will disable me from enjoying the game.

by **avskum** » Thu 31 May 2007 20:17

Sunich wrote:the game's too old for me to play it now.
dated visual will disable me from enjoying the game.

but you CAN play it right? i played it recently on a brand new computer with windows vista on it

by **avskum** » Thu 31 May 2007 20:18

Pifou wrote:xcuse me for the late answer...
in collector editions you can find (in france) low price packs (approx. $15) with :
- Amerzone, Syb1 + Syb2 or
- Amerzone + Syb1 and extras or
- Syb1 + Syb2 + 30 mn making off and pictures of Syberia universe...

++
Pif

what do you mean "and extras" ?

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