Atlantis (game series)
Atlantis is one of the computer games belonging Adventure series, the first of Cryo Interactive Entertainment has been developed. After the company went bankrupt in 2002, Atlantis Interactive Entertainment took over the game concept. The series is in no way related to the video game Atlantis by Imagic from 1982.
General
The plot of the different parts are only loosely related and depending on the development studio. So the first two parts have the same background story. Part 3, on the other hand, no longer contains many elements of the original framework story. However, all parts are more or less linked to one another.
Similar to Myst, all games are played from the first person perspective and are completely in 3D . They also have a 360 ° all-round view. In Atlantis: The legendary adventure, the critics criticized the fact that there were no crosshairs in the middle of the screen, so that it was difficult for the player to orient himself at the beginning. A crosshair was therefore added to the follow-up games.
During the games, puzzles of different difficulty levels have to be solved. In some places it depends on the speed of the player. If he reacts wrongly or too slowly, the played figure dies.
Atlantis: The fabulous adventure
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 Cryo Interactive Entertainment
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Cryo Interactive Entertainment The Adventure Company
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| Erstveröffent- lichung |
September 30, 1997 | ||
| platform | Windows , PlayStation , Saturn | ||
| genre | Adventure | ||
| Game mode | Single player | ||
| control | mouse | ||
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| medium | 4 CDs | ||
| language | German English French | ||
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Atlantis: The Legendary Adventure (orig. Atlantis: The Lost Tales ) is the first part of a series which was developed by Cryo Interactive Entertainment and published on September 30, 1997 by Dreamcatcher Interactive . The game is named after its most important location, the island of Atlantis and the city of the same name on it.
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The player takes on the role of Eno, who comes to Atlantis to join the companions of Queen Rhea. Like most Atlanteans, Rhea is a follower of the peaceful moon cult of the goddess Ammu. But Creon, the prince consort, believes in the warlike sun cult of the god Sa'at. Creon wants to develop his own power and that of Sa'at and has the queen kidnapped by the palace guards, but makes everything look like a kidnapping by wild strangers. He wants to declare himself king and have the moon cult forbidden. Creon has the queen's companions guarded by his palace guard and forbids them to leave the city of Atlantis. But Eno manages to escape with the help of Agatha and other loyal people of the queen. Agatha's brother, a young flight pilot named Hector, helps Eno in his search for the queen. The people of Atlantis are in possession of crystals that trained pilots can use by thought to steer the flying ships. Eno visits five different continents before he can free her from prison and move her to a safe place. At the end of the game there is a final battle between Creon and Eno. In a dogfight between the royal flagship and Eno's flying ship, Creon unfortunately hits the volcano on the Atlantean island. In the end, Eno defeats the malicious Creon, but even he can no longer prevent the eruption of the volcano of Atlantis. Eno manages to escape the lava flows at the last moment and escapes from the island on a raft with Anna, a friend of his. Atlantis' fate was sealed and so the island finally sank into the vastness of the ocean.
Trivia
- The main character Eno is called Seth in the English edition.
- Atlantis: The Legendary Adventure is the most successful part of the three games in the Atlantis saga developed by Cryo Interactive Entertainment.
Atlantis 2: Beyond Atlantis
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Cryo Interactive Entertainment
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Cryo Interactive Entertainment The Adventure Company
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| Erstveröffent- lichung |
1999 | ||
| platform | Windows , Mac OS | ||
| genre | Adventure | ||
| Game mode | Single player | ||
| control | mouse | ||
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| medium | 8 CDs | ||
| language | German English French | ||
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Atlantis 2: Beyond Atlantis is the second part of the series. The game is similar in structure and design to Atlantis: The Legendary Adventure . After many complaints about the game controls in Atlantis: The Legendary Adventure , the development team improved them. Death after a wrong step has also been removed in this part, but reinserted in Atlantis: The New World .
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At the beginning of the game, the main character Ten, "bearer of light" and a descendant of Eno, is in his homeland of Tibet. When he chases an eagle he comes to the Tibetan highlands . There he meets an old shaman, the “keeper of the crystal” from whom Ten learns that a few centuries ago the inhabitants of Atlantis split the indefinable power that surrounded their island into light and darkness. The darkness has been locked in a metal head. A few residents left for Shambhala with the light. When Creon has freed the darkness from its prison, Eno has managed to take it in and imprison it again. The residents of Shambhala initially wanted to bring darkness and light back together, but were afraid that darkness might have dominated the light. Thus Eno and all of his descendants have been designated as "bearers of light" and the people of Shambhalas have been charged with the surveillance of darkness. One day a star appears in the sky, bringing the energy of light to life. Ten travels to Shambhala to find out if darkness has awakened too. During his journey, Ten receives different stones for successfully solving tasks.
On his journey to Shambhala, Ten wanders through 5 worlds, in which he slips into different characters. While the beginning and end of the journey are set in Tibet and Shambhala, the order of the three other worlds can be chosen as desired:
- Land of the Mayans : Ten enters this world as Tepek, a young member of the Maya tribe. Upon his arrival in Yucatan , he learns that the god Quetzalcoatl (feathered serpent) has fallen into a deep sleep and that the king's offerings are not enough to awaken him. Tezcatlipoca (the jaguar), twin brother of Quetzalcoatl, can always expand his power and demands a lot from the king. If he can't wake his brother, Tezcatlipoca will take power and sacrifice the old king first. At the last second Ten Quetzalcoatl is found and thus averted the king's sacrifice.
- Ireland : Ten takes on the role of brother Felim, a monk. Ten travels into the past with the help of a picture and learns of an ancient battle between Nuada, King of the Tuahta ( Túatha Dé Danann ) and Bres ( Bress ), King of the Fomorach ( Fomori ). A blacksmith forged an iron hand for Nuada, but it was stolen. On Tens search for the hand he meets the mentally confused brother Finbar. When Ten searches for a reason for this behavior, he finds the tomb of King Ailill. Disher had been murdered by the goddess Aime in an argument. Ten brings Ailill back to life and, with the help of the king, manages to recapture the hand of Nuada and defeat King Bres.
- China : Ten is the state employee Wei Yulan who is staying at the "House of the Depositing Purple" monastery. A dark shadow blocked the passage to the gate. The residents are at a loss as to how to drive him out as all the exorcists are busy with other spirits that are scattered across the country. The only way out is the exorcist Tan Yun, who lived 300 years ago. In case anyone needs his help, he has created a dangerous path back in time, but none has yet returned.
At the end of the game, Ten arrives at Shambhala. Rhea awaits him there, the last queen of Atlantis, who fled to Shambhala after the fall of Atlantis. Eno flies with a flying ship to the lost Atlantis, there he finds an old crystal that the inhabitants of Atlantis used to control their flying ships. Armed with the crystal, Ten can defeat the final boss , the creature from the first part, and thus destroy the evil once and for all.
Atlantis: The New World
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Cryo Interactive Entertainment
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Cryo Interactive Entertainment The Adventure Company
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| Erstveröffent- lichung |
2001 | ||
| platform | Windows , PlayStation | ||
| genre | Adventure | ||
| Game mode | Single player | ||
| control | mouse | ||
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| medium | 3 CDs | ||
| language | German English French | ||
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Atlantis 3: The New World (orig. Beyond Atlantis 2 ) is the last part of the series, which was developed by Cryo Interactive Entertainment. During the game you always return to the starting point of the game and receive new information.
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The background story takes place in a part of the Sahara , the Hoggar desert in Algeria . A young scientist will travel there in 2020. She is looking for the remains of the sunken world of Atlantis. After a car accident, she meets the young nomad Targi. Targi tries to free a well, which is essential for the desert inhabitants, from a group of mercenaries who have occupied the well. During the game you will always return to this starting point and receive new information about the secrets of Atlantis. This is where the metal skull comes from, which also played a role in the previous parts. With the help of the skull, the inhabitants of the city of Jerusalem once repulsed the conquest by the Egyptian Pharaoh Shoshenq. Similar to '' Atlantis 2: Beyond Atlantis '', the main character passes through a world gate into three different main worlds, the order of which can be freely selected:
- Ancient Egypt : a psychopomp tells the player about the Egyptian cult of the dead . With the help of the Psychopomp you repair an old flight ship of the inhabitants of Atlantis. This is one of the game's few connections to its previous parts. A priestess tells the player to find a way to save the soul of the deceased Pharaoh so that he can be reborn.
- Baghdad : as a young thief you roam the capital of Iraq , which has been transported back to a time of a thousand and one nights . There he falls in love with the daughter of a rich merchant who saves him from her father's guards. To win her heart he has to bring her a black rose.
- Stone Age : After a failed hunt for a mammoth , the archaeologist escapes into a cave. There she stumbles and falls into an abyss. She dies from her injuries. Now as a spirit she has to bring her own body back to life. After a successful resuscitation, she sets out again on a mammoth hunt.
After completing all tasks, the player returns to the Hoggar desert. After a final battle, the archaeologist can free Targi and flee with him.
Atlantis evolution
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Atlantis Interactive Entertainment
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Dreamcatcher Interactive Europe The Adventure Company
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| Erstveröffent- lichung |
2004 | ||
| platform | Windows , PlayStation | ||
| genre | Adventure | ||
| Game mode | Single player | ||
| control | mouse | ||
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| medium | 4 CDs | ||
| language | German English French | ||
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Atlantis Evolution is the fourth part of the series. After the bankruptcy of Cryo Interactive Entertainment in 2002 , many employees switched to the newly founded company Atlantis Interactive Entertainment , which took over the Atlantis series.
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The story takes place in 1904 . Photographer Curtis Hewitt is on his way home from Patagonia back to New York on board a ship when a violent storm breaks out. He escapes from the sinking ship in a lifeboat. On the open sea he is drawn into a strong vortex and sinks. When he regains consciousness, he is from a UFO on the island of Atlantis beamed . After the fall of the island, five residents took over the rule there. Led by the father of gods Zanat, the creator of the moon and the sun, they have been proclaimed immortal gods. Then they enslaved the rest of the population and condemned them to eternal labor. The player's task is to free the population from the hands of slavery and to rob the gods of their power. On his journey he meets a group of rebels who are hiding in a forest so as not to be captured by the followers of the gods.
Atlantis 5: The Sacred Legacy
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Atlantis Interactive Entertainment
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Nobilis CDV Software Entertainment
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| Erstveröffent- lichung |
2006 | ||
| platform | Windows | ||
| genre | Adventure | ||
| Game mode | Single player | ||
| control | mouse | ||
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| medium | 1 DVD | ||
| language | German English French | ||
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Atlantis: The Holy Legacy (orig. The Secrets of Atlantis ) is the last published part of the series. It was released on November 27, 2006 .
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The story begins in 1937 . The young engineer Howard Brooks is on board the Hindenburg on its return flight to New York when a machine problem occurs. Shortly thereafter, Brooks is attacked by strangers. They are looking for an old heirloom that Brooks received from his father shortly before his father died. Brooks learns that he is the last descendant of the Atlanteans. He then embarks on a world-wide journey to learn more about his past and that of his ancestors. He soon realizes that Atlantis is not only a legend, but also really exists. From then on his search for the mysterious place is concentrated. His trip takes him to Macau , Mesopotamia and New York, among others .
Web links
- Atlantis series at MobyGames (English)