Alter Ego (computer game 2010)
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| Studio | Future Games | ||
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| Senior Developer | Jozef Német | ||
| composer | Zdeněk Houb | ||
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March 26, 2010 | ||
| platform | Microsoft Windows | ||
| Game engine | AGDS | ||
| genre | Point-and-click adventure | ||
| Game mode | Single player | ||
| control | mouse | ||
| medium | DVD-ROM | ||
| language | German, English, Czech | ||
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Alter Ego is a point-and-click adventure game from the Czech game developer Future Games . The player takes turns controlling two opposing characters who are involved in a fictional series of murders in British Plymouth in the 19th century. Alter Ego was released in March 2010 for PCs with the Microsoft Windows operating system .
action
1894: Sir William died in Plymouth. He was blamed for a series of murders and was called "the white beast". His corpse has disappeared from the family crypt, which encourages the press to all sorts of speculations. At the beginning of the game, the player controls Timothy Moor, an Irish crook who wants to emigrate to the USA but is arrested by the local police in Plymouth. He escapes and asks an old friend for help, whom he in return helps with a break-in in Plymouth. At the same time, you play Inspector Briscol, who takes on a managerial position with the Plymouther police and, among other things, has to close the case of the "White Beast". Briscol uses modern investigation methods. The aim of the game is to solve the case of the "white beast". The playing time is about ten hours.
Gameplay
Alter Ego is a so-called 2.5D point-and-click adventure . Characters that were created as three-dimensional figure models move in front of hand-drawn 2D backdrops. With the mouse, the player gives his characters Timothy Moor and Inspector Briscol action commands, moves them from place to place, examines the scenery, analyzes and combines found objects and talks to other characters. As the story progresses, more locations will be unlocked. An important element of the game is the detective work of the investigator Briscol, in which, for example, objects have to be compared with each other or examined with a magnifying glass and people have to be interrogated. Individual results of the investigation are automatically entered in the inspector's notebook.
Production notes
With the production of alter ego , the same team was entrusted, the 2003 Black Mirror had created the biggest financial success of Future Games. Alter ego was not a financial success. As a result, the Czech development studio Future Games had to cease business operations.
speaker
| role | German speaker |
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| Inspector Briscol | Oliver Krietsch-Matzura |
| Timothy Moor | Johannes Berenz |
| reporter | Gordon Piedesack |
reception
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Alter Ego received mediocre to poor ratings. The review database Metacritic aggregates 9 reviews to an average of 59. The German game magazine 4Players praised the gloomy mood of the game as well as the idea of allowing two different characters to visit the same locations and thus with two different perspectives, which makes the plot varied. The magazine criticized the two game characters as unsympathetic and rated the puzzles as not challenging enough. The specialist magazine Adventure-Treff pointed out that the player can follow the thought processes of the two protagonists, but this does not lead to a further bond with these characters, since they are fundamentally selfish (Timothy) or arrogant (Briscol) and above without a background story. Reviewer Sascha Pongratz noted negatively that the two storylines are only insufficiently interlinked and thus interrupt the flow of the game when changing perspective. The detective work is also superficial in places. The setting was positively noted; Voice recordings, score and background noise appeared professional, coherent and appropriate. The German GameStar criticized the animations of the characters: “ The wooden movements of the low polygons are reminiscent of marionettes. “Thanks to the exciting plot and proper dubbing, Alter Ego is overall a suitable adventure“ for in between ”.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Adventure-Treff.de: Alter Ego. Retrieved May 12, 2019 .
- ↑ Planete-Aventure.net: Future Games Interview. Retrieved May 12, 2019 . (PDF, 136 kB)
- ↑ Future Games at MobyGames (English)
- ↑ a b 4Players.de: Alter Ego. Retrieved May 12, 2019 .
- ↑ a b Gamestar.de: Alter Ego in the Test - New Adventure from the Black Mirror makers. Retrieved May 12, 2019 .
- ↑ PCGames.de: Alter Ego in the test: New adventure from the Black Mirror makers only average. Retrieved September 27, 2019 .
- ↑ a b Metacritic.com: Alter Ego. Retrieved May 12, 2019 .