LucasArts Bringing the Adventure Back – Game NewsWritten By Roy
When the graphics card finally started gaining popularity in the mid nineties and games like Quake took centre stage, it seemed like gaming had changed forever and the 2D point and click adventure game was something that was truly a thing of the past. Indeed, for a good decade very little was done with the adventure genre, while RTS and FPS games filled the shelves. With a few notable exceptions such as 1999’s amazing Grim Fandango and the brilliant The Longest Journey it seems like point and click adventure games had gone the way of their text based predecessors, never to be seen again.
Then, digital distribution started to take hold and things rapidly changed. The episodic Sam and Max Series was hugely popular and has seen releases across all major formats, while new handhelds like the DS have also seen a return to classic adventure games thank to their intuitive control system. Most recently, LucasArts have also announced a complete remake of one of the most popular PC adventure games of all time, The Secret of Monkey Island as well as new episodic content from the series.
This is great news from the company that only five years ago cancelled development of a new Sam and Max game and laid off their entire adventure gaming team and it’s shown what a huge difference digital and episodic gaming has made to the genre, despite the games themselves remaining quite similar in content and style – with the obligatory graphical facelift, of course.
The next great news from the company is that they are bringing even more classics to a new audience through steam. These aren’t remakes, so we won’t see any updated audio or graphical changes – everything will be as it was ten years ago. However, that doesn’t mean these games aren’t worth playing especially if you never got the chance to play them when they came out.
The first ten titles are as follows:
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Loom, The Dig, Armed and Dangerous, LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventure, Star Wars Battlefront 2, Star Wars Republic Commando, Star Wars Starfighter and Thrillville: Off the Rails.
There’s definitely some garbage mixed in with the gems there, and while some truly amazing Star Wars games have come out from the company, most of them aren’t actually that good at all, with Starfighter being a particularly dull experience. However, just seeing the original Indiana Jones adventure games and Loom (the game that can really be credit with starting it all) is enough to make us very happy about this decision.
This is the first time the games have been available digitally, so if you haven’t already heard of any of these titles, now might be a great time to go pick them up.
The News Release was written by: Roy who produces professional
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