Memento Mori 2
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| Studio | Centauri Production | ||
| Publisher | Dtp entertainment | ||
| Senior Developer | Karel Matějka | ||
| composer | Martin Linda, Lumír Hrma | ||
| Erstveröffent- lichung |
June 15, 2012 | ||
| platform | Microsoft Windows | ||
| Game engine | CPAL3D | ||
| genre | Adventure | ||
| medium | DVD-ROM , download | ||
| language | German English | ||
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Memento Mori 2 (full title: Memento Mori 2: Guardian of Immortality ) is an Adventure - Computer game of the Czech development studio Centauri Production from the year 2012. It is the sequel to the 2008 released Memento Mori is.
action
After the events in Memento Mori , the protagonists Lara and Max got married and are spending their honeymoon in Cape Town . Although she is on vacation, Lara accepts an assignment from her superiors at Interpol : Pascal Katlego, operator of the renowned CT Art Gallery in Cape Town, unsatisfied with the work of the local police, contacted Interpol via private contacts Please investigate two statues stolen from him. Lara and Max, who supports her, find out that the local police are covering a suspect and that an influential family is responsible for the theft. But then Max disappears without a trace in an alleged car accident and is declared dead by the authorities. Lara returns to Lyon , reluctantly resumes her work at Interpol's headquarters and has to face competition within the department. FBI agent Keira Sheehan, who is a friend of her, causes Lara to be assigned to a case in San Francisco: Workers engaged in renovation work have disappeared from the basement of a church, traces of blood on the floor indicate an act of violence, and the perpetrator is depicted with blood of the Archangel Gabriel painted on a wall, in which he reproduced sections of real paintings such as the Annunciation by Frederico Barocci in great detail. Lara's investigations expand into a hunt for a serial killer who kills people around the globe and then carves unknown symbols into their bodies. Circumstances suggest that Max could be the killer. Lara's further investigations lead her to Finland and Mexico.
Characters
- Maxim "Max" Durand
Max Durand is a painter and former art forger. At the start of the game he is newly married to his wife Lara. Some time later, he disappears without a trace during the investigation into the art theft. German voice: Sascha Draeger .
- Larisa "Lara" Durand
Lara Durand (née Svetlova) is a Russian-born director of an art theft department at Interpol. German voice: Nana Spier .
- Pascal Katlego
Katlego is the owner of the CT Art Gallery. He has no trust in the work of the local police and asks Interpol for help.
- Desmond Nomusa
Nomusa is the inspector of the Cape Town Police Department and was in charge of the investigation into the break-in of the gallery. He put the break-in to the files very quickly and is covering a suspect. It turns out that he was acting on behalf of Zenzele LeClerq.
- Zenzele LeClerq
The ancient LeClerq is the head of a long-established family who lay claim to the stolen statues and initiated the theft of them. LeClerq is deeply involved with West African magic.
- Charlotte Renier
Lara Durand's boss. Has a strong urge to interfere in running Durand's department.
- Keira Sheehan
Sheehan is an FBI agent who is friends with Lara from San Francisco. A few years ago, Sheehan of Irish descent and Lara Durand (then Svetlova) worked together to solve a case in Macau.
Game principle and technology
Memento Mori 2 is a 3D point-and-click adventure . For polygons composite, three-dimensional figures act before also three-dimensional, pre-rendered scenes. The player controls the character - mostly Lara, sometimes Max or Keira, with the mouse through the game world. With the mouse buttons he can initiate actions that allow the respective game character to interact with his environment. He can find objects, apply them to the environment or other objects and communicate with NPCs . Dialogues are controlled by a single choice selection of topics given by the game that fit the situation. As the story progresses, more locations will be unlocked. The camera shows what is happening from a partially variable perspective. Initially, she has a permanent position. If the player moves a bit out of the picture, the camera moves along and focuses again. If the player leaves the current room, the camera is transferred to the new room and again assumes a fixed position there. Cutscenes are decorated in game graphics. The game is divided into seven chapters. There are two different endings in terms of content; which of these the player gets to see is determined by his decisions during the course of the game.
Production notes
The previous game Memento Mori had different endings depending on the actions of the player. Memento Mori 2 follows on from its predecessor, but for reasons of consistency is limited to a specific end of Memento Mori . In the margins, Memento Mori touches on two socio-political issues. In Cape Town, for example, injustices in dealing with water scarcity are discussed, which the city was still concerned with years later. The publication of the game for the Anglo-American language area, which appeared in German-speaking countries in 2012, dragged on until 2014. The reason was localization difficulties. Scottish singer Jill MacDonald contributed three songs to the game's soundtrack.
reception
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Memento Mori 2 received mixed reviews. Metacritic aggregates ten reviews to a mean value of 65. The German trade magazine Adventure-Treff praised the “breathtaking” and realistic graphics, the character drawing, dialogues and synchronization. The slow dramaturgy at the beginning of the game was criticized. In sum, the magazine rated Memento Mori 2 as "graphically, it is certainly the most complex adventure game apart from Heavy Rain ". The Swiss magazine GBase positively emphasized "exciting and very varied" puzzles, an intuitive and powerful interface , numerous animations of the game world and the large scope of the game and noted negatively that the story was slow to pick up speed at first and that with some mini-games Boredom would arise. Overall, the magazine saw Memento Mori 2 as a “fast-paced mystery adventure”. The trade magazine Adventure Classic Gaming drew parallels to the novel Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown . The magazine tested the English version of the game, praised the setting of the roles of the main characters and highlighted the quality of the graphics, which use sophisticated technical processes such as volumetric shadowing, particle and light throwing effects. It criticized the spokespeople for the supporting roles, gross blunders in localizing it into English, and numerous twists and turns in the development of the game's story that made it difficult to follow the game and ultimately understand what happened. The US magazine GameSpot criticized unimaginative puzzles, wooden animations and technical inadequacies in localization. The English-language trade magazine Adventure Gamers pointed out that the game's story had potential and always had good twists and turns, but that it always left essential questions for the player unanswered. It criticized that different decisions made during the course of the game had only a marginal effect on the final of the game.
Web links
- Trailer on YouTube
- Memento Mori 2 at MobyGames (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ AdventureCorner.de: Memento Mori 2: Guardians of Immortality. Retrieved February 3, 2018 .
- ↑ Spiegel.de: We understand that panic overcomes many. Retrieved February 3, 2018 .
- ↑ a b AdventureClassicGaming.com: Memento Mori 2: Guardians of Immortality. Retrieved February 3, 2018 .
- ^ A b AdventureGamers.com: Memento Mori 2: Guardians of Immortality. Retrieved February 3, 2018 .
- ↑ a b Adventure-Treff.de: Memento Mori 2. Retrieved on September 28, 2019 .
- ↑ a b GameSpot.com: Memento Mori 2: Guardians of Immortality. Retrieved February 3, 2018 .
- ↑ a b GBase.ch: Memento Mori 2: Review. Retrieved February 3, 2018 .
- ↑ a b Metacritic.com: Memento Mori 2. Accessed February 3, 2018 .