Ankh: heart of Osiris

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Ankh: heart of Osiris
Studio Deck13
Publisher EuropeEurope Xider Noviy Disk
RussiaRussia
Senior Developer Jan Klose
Erstveröffent-
lichung		 October 30, 2006
platform Linux , Mac OS X , Windows
Game engine PINA
genre Adventure
Game mode Single player
control mouse
language German English
copy protection turntable
Age rating
USK released from 0
PEGI recommended for ages 12+

Ankh: Heart of Osiris is the sequel to the 2005 released 3D point-and-click - Adventures Ankh and the second part of the series. It was developed by the German development team Deck13 .

action

Since the end of his last adventure, the young Assil has not fared well: his relationship with Thara has broken up and, to make matters worse, his ankh was stolen. Osiris is still after him, too, but he lacks one thing to achieve final power: his own heart. Finding this before Osiris does so is now Assil's task. Parallel to this main plot and partly interwoven with it, the fates of the Pharaoh and Tharas are illuminated. The former fell victim to a conspiracy and now has to work as a slave in one of his own quarries. Thara, on the other hand, has made it her goal to steal a football cup and so embarrass the Pharaoh.

Game principle and technology

Like its predecessor, Herz des Osiris is a linear adventure game without any action. The main character Assil is moved from one point to the other by simply clicking the mouse or interacting with people or objects. In dialogues, multiple choice can be used to choose what the character is saying. The dialogues are displayed like in a movie with black bars at the top and bottom of the screen. The camera alternately pans back and forth between the two actors. Later in the game, the player also takes control of Thara or the Pharaoh.

Production notes

Instead of copy protection , the game comes with a so-called code wheel, as found in the older LucasArts - Adventures Monkey Island 1 and 2. At a certain point in the game, the individual discs of the code wheel must be rotated in such a way that pairs of terms mentioned in the game are formed, whereupon a security code can be read on the code wheel. In the Ankh trilogy, however, this code wheel is completely missing. A patch has been released that skips the code wheel position.

The voice actors are, the role provided in Heart of Osiris again occurs, the same as in the previous game.

role German speaker English speaker
Assil Oliver Rohrbeck
Fatima Dascha Lehmann
Thara Ranja Bonalana
dinar Ernst Meincke
Osiris Frank Glaubrecht
Palace guard Thomas Danneberg
Slave boss Thomas Vogt

The third part, titled Ankh: Clash of the Gods , was released in November 2007.

reception

reviews
publication Rating
Adventure Gamers 3.5 / 5
Meta-ratings
GameRankings 73%

From 13 aggregated ratings, Herz des Osiris achieved a score of 73% on GameRankings . The English-language trade magazine AdventureGamers praised the atmosphere of the game, the game's “charming” graphics and “entertaining” scenes, but criticized the content and form of the predecessor game Ankh , for example through the recycling of numerous characters.

Further review ratings:

Awards

German Developer Award 2006: 2nd place in the best German adventure category, 2nd place in the best story category, 3rd place in level design.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ GamesAktuell.de: Ank: Heart of Osiris - code disk. Retrieved November 29, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b AdventureGamers.com: Ankh: Heart of Osiris. Retrieved November 29, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b GameRankings.com: Ankh: Heart of Osiris. Retrieved January 21, 2017 .