12th January 2003, 10:37 PM
Adventure = Graphic Adventure. The two words mean exactly the same thing... well, except Graphic Adventure means its got to have graphics, while Adventure also include text-based ones.
Adventure games aren't dead. They are FAR less common than they used to be, true, but they are NOT dead... if you think they are, tell that to the companies still making them. It'd surprise them to hear that the genre doesnt exist anymore. :)
2002 had one real good adventure game: Syberia for the PC. I played the demo... its pretty good. Not the best graphic adventure ever, by far, but good. There were others (most published by the aptly named The Adventure Company, par of DreamCatcher, a company that mainly seems to publish European adventure games here in the US). Syberia is one of their games... and one of the best they've published. Most of their games eem to not have been noticed at all and got pretty average reviews at best... but Syberia is good.
http://www.adventurecompanygames.com/tac/pc.html
Adventure games aren't dead. They are FAR less common than they used to be, true, but they are NOT dead... if you think they are, tell that to the companies still making them. It'd surprise them to hear that the genre doesnt exist anymore. :)
2002 had one real good adventure game: Syberia for the PC. I played the demo... its pretty good. Not the best graphic adventure ever, by far, but good. There were others (most published by the aptly named The Adventure Company, par of DreamCatcher, a company that mainly seems to publish European adventure games here in the US). Syberia is one of their games... and one of the best they've published. Most of their games eem to not have been noticed at all and got pretty average reviews at best... but Syberia is good.
http://www.adventurecompanygames.com/tac/pc.html