Shivers (computer game)
| Shivers | |||
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| Studio | Sierra Entertainment | ||
| Publisher | Sierra Entertainment | ||
| Erstveröffent- lichung |
1995 | ||
| platform | Mac OS , Windows | ||
| genre | Adventure | ||
| Game mode | Single player | ||
| control | mouse | ||
| language | German English French | ||
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Shivers is the first game in the Shivers series from Sierra Entertainment . The designer Marcia Bales designed this scary mystery game together with Roberta Williams .
The sequel is Shivers II: Harvest of Souls .
action
Shivers is set in the village of Mount Pleasant, Ohio, USA . There, the defamed in his native Britain had Para scientist Sir Hubert Windlenot set up a museum for the results of his research, the "Professor Windlenot's Museum of the Strange and Unusual". In 1980, Windlenot disappeared without a trace before the museum opened; since then the building has been considered a haunted house by the locals.
In 1995 the player had to break into the museum as a test of courage agreed with his friends and spend a night there. It turns out that 15 years earlier, two teenagers broke into the museum and accidentally released ten evil spirits called “Ixupi” from pre-Columbian Peru , who killed the teenagers and Sir Windlenot. The player is given the task of catching the ten ghosts by sunrise and freeing the ghosts from Windlenot and the teenager.
Game principle and technology
Shivers is a 1st-person adventure, which means that what is happening is shown from the perspective of the player. A partially animated still image of the player's surroundings is displayed, which he can examine with the mouse cursor. If the shape of the mouse cursor changes at a so-called hotspot, interaction with this point is possible. Shivers is a game in which you have to solve puzzles in order to clear objects and secret passages. All 10 Ixupis must be caught. In each case, the combination of a suitable vessel with a suitable lid and the corresponding Ixupi is crucial. Only one vessel and lid can be transported. Shivers integrates FMV into the action: Scenes filmed with actors are inserted into the pre-rendered and, in some cases, post-processed backgrounds.
reception
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The PC Joker praised the presentation and atmosphere of the game, but criticized the "annoying" gameplay and the "confused" story, and stated that Shivers was "a Myst cut (...) that was down to the cult status of the (...) original adventurously far away ".
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ JeuxVideo.com: Test: Shivers. Retrieved March 29, 2018 .
- ↑ a b PC Joker 1/1996: Shivers. Retrieved March 5, 2017 .