The dagger of Amon Ra
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| Original title | The Dagger of Amon Ra | ||
| Studio | Sierra On-Line | ||
| Publisher | Sierra On-Line | ||
| Senior Developer | Bruce Balfour | ||
| Erstveröffent- lichung |
1992 | ||
| platform | DOS , Windows | ||
| Game engine | Sierra Creative Interpreter (SCI) | ||
| genre | Point-and-click adventure | ||
| Subject | Detective story | ||
| Game mode | Single player | ||
| control | Mouse & keyboard , joystick | ||
| medium | Floppy disk , CD-ROM , download | ||
| language | English German | ||
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The Dagger of Amon Ra ( english The Dagger of Amon Ra ; and Laura Bow II ) is from Sierra Online developed point-and-click adventure game that was released 1,992th It is the successor to The Colonel's Bequest and again has the young journalist Laura Bow as the protagonist.
action
The story is set in New York City in the 1920s. Laura Bow, a graduate of Tulane University, takes up a job as a journalist and, on her first assignment, is given the task of writing an article about the theft of an Egyptian dagger from a museum. While she initially collects her first knowledge at various locations in New York, the main part of the game that follows takes place inside the museum, where Laura is invited to an evening reception. After the first guests are found dead, it is up to the player to solve the murder cases.
Game principle and technology
The Dagger of Amon Ra is a point-and-click adventure game . From Sprites composite characters act before hand-drawn, some animated scenes. The player can use the mouse to move his character through the locations and use the mouse buttons to initiate actions that allow the character to interact with his environment. Laura can find objects and apply them to the environment or other objects and communicate with NPCs . As the story progresses, more locations will be unlocked. Dialogues with NPCs take place with the help of the multiple choice procedure.
In contrast to products from competitor LucasArts , it is typical for Sierra games from this time that a solution becomes impossible if the player did not take certain actions at an earlier point. In addition, there is a sarcastic humor, which is most clearly expressed in the fact that the character can die in an unexpected and sometimes banal way. This also characterizes The Dagger of Amon Ra , although not to the same extent as the parts of the Space Quest series.
Production notes
The Dagger of Amon Ra was the second and last game with the protagonist Laura Bow. It uses 8-bit VGA graphics that were in keeping with the times when the game was released. In contrast to The Colonel's Bequest , the game can only be controlled with the mouse . It was initially only released on diskette , followed in 1993 by a version on CD-ROM with voice output. In February 2017, a version of the game that ran on modern Windows systems was released on the Gog.com platform .
Although the Laura Bow series was discontinued, Sierra took up the subject of crime again in the first part of Gabriel Knight , which was published a year later. This contains a number of allusions to Laura Bow; Among other things, there is Tulane University, where an eighty-year-old professor named Laura Bow teaches.
reception
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From 4 aggregated ratings, The Dagger of Amon Ra achieved a score of 73 on GameRankings. PC Joker praised background graphics, animations and the "funny-snappy" dialogues, but criticized the sometimes cumbersome gameplay. The magazine pointed out that the plot could "take on any Agatha Christie crime thriller again this time". In May 1992, Power Play magazine gave it a 69% rating. The website Adventuregamers.com awarded 2.5 stars out of 5 in 2006; Above all, the confused, sometimes illogical action and the awkward operation of dialogues were criticized.
Web links
- The dagger of Amon Ra at MobyGames (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b PC Joker 5/92, p. 27: Laura Bow 2. Accessed April 8, 2017 .
- ↑ a b Volker Weitz: Laura Bow: The Dagger of Amon Ra . In: Power Play . September 1992.
- ↑ a b GameRankings.com: Laura Bow in The Dagger of Amon Ra. Retrieved February 1, 2017 .
- ^ Johann Walter: Laura Bow: The Dagger Of Amon Ra. Adventuregamers.com, February 24, 2006, accessed August 9, 2012 .