The fantastic trip to Terra-Gon
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| Studio | Multimedia artists | ||
| Publisher | BMS Modern Games | ||
| Erstveröffent- lichung |
1996 | ||
| platform | Mac OS , Windows | ||
| Game engine | Splash | ||
| genre | Adventure | ||
| Game mode | Single player | ||
| control | mouse | ||
| medium | CD | ||
| language | German | ||
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Fantastic Voyage to Terra-Gon (Subtitle: The Sirius Mystery ) is a Adventure - Computer game . The player has to explore surreal, three-dimensionally modeled environments, operate numerous machines and put together many small logical puzzles as well as an all-encompassing one step by step . It is very similar to the game Myst and calls itself a mystical and surrealistic science fiction adventure .
action
In the year 2442 the earth is thrown out of its orbit by Halley's comet and spins towards the sun. Almost all of humanity dies in this catastrophe, only a handful of people can save themselves in underground bunkers. One of them is Professor Oman Tempel, inventor of a time machine that goes up to 150 million years before our time. Tempel theorized that an ancient African tribe had contact with aliens. With the help of Temple's time machine, the player should travel to Africa in order to find a way to save the earth with the help of the knowledge of the aliens. Places of worship such as Stonehenge , Nazca , an island similar to Easter Island, pyramids , oracles , Nepal and the planet Mars must be visited.
Game principle and technology
The fantastic journey to Terra-Gon is a 1st-person adventure, which means that the events are presented from the perspective of the player. A pre-rendered still image is always shown that shows the respective game environment in the current viewing direction. Using a static menu at the bottom of the screen, the player can turn 90 ° to the left or right (which shows a correspondingly different section of the game environment) or move forward. It is a point-and-click adventure; With the help of the mouse pointer, the player can interact with objects in the game environment. NPCs do not appear in the game; The background story is revealed to the player through the Oman Temple's diary entries scattered throughout the game.
Production notes
The attached soundtrack The Sounds of Terra-Gon includes the following seven pieces of music: Good bye (5:33), Through The Skies (5:46), Terra-Gon (5:44), Stonehenge (5:16), The Beginning (7:34), Moon (2:03) and Time (4:12).
reception
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The PC Joker rated The Fantastic Journey to Terra-Gon overall as an "entertaining experience", but criticized an antiquated presentation, moderate animation and confusing labyrinths. The PC Games noted "creepy" puzzles and "embarrassing" spelling mistakes and assessed that The Fantastic Journey to Terra-Gon "does not even come close to the great role model" Myst . The PC Player already saw the premise of the game that the player is chosen to save the earth, a logic problem and criticized a "poorly thought-out" control as well as content-related incoherent sections of the game. In summary, it is desirable that The Fantastic Journey to Terra-Gon "disappear forever in the depths of the universe".
Web links
- The fantastic trip to Terra-Gon at MobyGames (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b PC Games 4/97, p. 178: The fantastic journey to Terra-Gon. Retrieved April 16, 2017 .
- ↑ a b PC Joker 4/97, p. 96: The fantastic journey to Terra-Gon. Retrieved February 1, 2017 .
- ↑ a b Volker Schütz: Adventure for beginners to advanced: Terra-Gon . In: PC Player . July 1997, p. 100. (PDF)