Point And Click Adventure Games Full Of Characters

It helps that the game has some brilliant dialogue and the voice-acting (Tony Planas performance as Manny in particular) is top-notch.

There are the usual suspects to consider of course; games that have become classics of the genre and as such have deservedly secured their places in the point n click hall of fame.

Games that aspire to greatness and come tantalisingly close to achieving it but then, for one reason or another, fall short.

And of course, there are the games I havent played and therefore cant comment on without looking like an ignorant muppet (like thats never happened before).

It ruins immersion and in a genre so heavily reliant on narrative and puzzle-solving, it becomes little more than an annoyance.

The game employed red herrings -- items that were unbeknownst to you, entirely worthless, thus you spent the entire game carting around pocketfuls of random crap for no apparent reason.

Worse, it was possible to use up critical items early in the game, rendering it unwinnable.

And dont get me started on the compulsory Giant Maze of Doom you encountered at roughly the halfway mark.

This is the sort of game design that induces uncontrollable fits of explosive profanity, which is a shame because Legend Of Kyrandia was otherwise beautiful, brilliantly voice-acted and a joy to play.

The second game, Hand Of Fate, redeemed the series until the horrendous hybrid-3D abomination Malcolms Revenge ruined it all over again.

Based on comic book characters created by artist Steve Purcell, the game chronicles the adventures of Sam, an anthropomorphic dog, and his sidekick Max, who is loosely described as a hyperkinetic rabbity thing.

During the course of their investigation, the wise-cracking duo criss-cross America visiting such notable sites as The Worlds Largest Ball of Twine, Frog Rock and The Celebrity Vegetable Museum.

Sam and Max are both deeply dysfunctional characters, and the interplay between them is consistently entertaining, particularly Maxs penchant for solving problems through the judicious application of extreme physical violence.

Sams sardonic commentary on American popular culture is worth the price of admission alone.

Point And Click Adventure Games Full Of Characters

Chock-full of characters from the books, everyone from Lord Vetinari to Death makes an appearance here, and the dialogue is as amusing as youd expect.

Discworld is a fairly long game and some of the puzzles are notoriously tricky (largely due to having to traverse multiple locations and indulge in the odd pixel-hunt), so if youre expecting to cruise through this in an afternoon.

Some reviewers found the dialogue long-winded and not terribly funny.

These people are dangerously insane and should be institutionalised in the interests of public safety.

Mannys job is to make travel arrangements for the recently deceased prior to their departure for the Land of Eternal Rest, a journey they make according to how they lived.

Four years of trudging through hostile wilderness if you were a menace to society.

Four minutes of luxury travel on the Number Nine if you helped pensioners across busy intersections and rescued kittens from trees.

When Manny discovers someone is rorting the system, assigning tickets on the Number Nine to those who can pay an exorbitant fee rather than those judged deserving, he finds himself immersed in a deadly conspiracy with far-reaching consequences.

Everything from the film noir story, to the jazzy soundtrack, to the art deco aesthetic screams quality.