The interface is cumbersome, requiring that you either cycle through your entire inventory or access the submenu, which, thankfully, is at least controlled with the mouse. It rarely works well, especially when it erratically swings around while running down narrow corridors. Most of the time the camera is pointed directly behind Simon, but in indoor segments, it tends to change to a static angle. The mouse controls have been ditched for direct keyboard control, which is far from great. The world is bright and colorful, but that’s about the best thing to say about it. (Later in the game you can transport around a map via a Doctor Who-style telephone booth, but even that’s limited.) It feels padded, tedious, and overly long, because it takes forever to go anywhere or do anything. The world design suffers from the same problem as many early 3D games – it’s just simply way too big and empty, and it takes forever to traverse, even when you’re running. It doesn’t help that the 3D renders on the covers of the Puzzle Pack released in the seven year gap between the second and third games set some measure of expectations, which were missed entirely. If it wasn’t for the higher resolution, it would look like a PlayStation game from at least five years prior – and not a particularly good one at that. This was typical of early 3D, but that is no excuse for Simon 3D, which was released in 2002.
All of the environments are totally 3D too, but they’re pasted with the same textures ad nauseam. The character models are very boxy and extremely low quality. The same can’t be said of Simon the Sorcerer 3D.įirst, the graphics. This evolution was particularly unkind to the adventure game genre, but while games like Broken Sword: The Sleeping Dragon and Escape from Monkey Island aren’t exactly the pinnacles of their respective series, they’re at least still pretty good. The canon of video game history shows a number of 2D franchises which totally screwed up their transitions to 3D. After that more or less failed, they formed Headfirst Productions and returned to Simon, deciding to take him into the third dimension. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.After Simon the Sorcerer II, Adventure Soft took a break with The Feeble Files, another humorous adventure game, this time focusing on science fiction. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior.
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