Titanic: Adventure Out of Time
| Titanic: Race Against Time | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Titanic: Adventure Out of Time |
| Studio | Cyberflix |
| Publisher |
 Bomico GTE Entertainment
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| Senior Developer | Andrew Nelson |
| Erstveröffent- lichung |
October 31, 1996 |
| platform | Mac OS , Windows |
| genre | Adventure |
| Game mode | Single player |
| control | Keyboard & mouse |
| medium | CD-ROM , download |
| language | German English |
Titanic: Race Against Time is a computer game for Mac OS and Windows that was developed by Cyberflix in 1996. It is a 3D adventure from the first person perspective , which tells a fictional agent story against the background of the historically accurate replica of the luxury liner Titanic . The ship is completely and freely accessible. Cyberflix employed a historian for the development work, who was responsible for the authenticity of the replica. Numerous original documents and objects were used for the work.
action
The focus of the plot is the player character Frank Carlson, a British secret agent who is supposed to find a German spy among the passengers. By being able to complete your mission in different ways, you can change the real course of historical events. The name Frank Carlson can also be found on the surviving passenger lists of the Titanic, but there is no connection between the game character and the historical person. He never started the trip due to a traffic accident. The jeweled book of the "Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám" is also historically documented.
The game begins in a one-room apartment in England at the start of the German bombing raids on Britain during World War II . The player character Frank Carlson is a former Secret Service agent who is charged with failing on a secret mission on the Titanic 30 years earlier. Accordingly, he had not been able to find a German spy among the passengers. Because of his failure he is said to be partly to blame for the outbreak of both world wars. When an aerial bomb explodes in front of the window of his apartment, Frank is thrown back into the past and finds himself on board the Titanic. This gives him the opportunity to make amends for his failure at that time and thus change the course of historical events for both good and bad.
Characters
- Frank Carlson is the player. He is a former British secret service spy. On April 14, 1942, he was taken back in time and thus got a second chance to complete his orders on the Titanic after all and thus change the course of history.
- Penny Pringle is Frank Carlson's client and contact person on the Titanic. She is pretty upset because she couldn't ride in first class and was transferred to second class.
- The third officer Morrow guards the bridge and the radio room on the port side. He's a good person, but doesn't always obey the rules. He was involved in the second Boer War and was surprised by the enemies on a moonless night while their leader was drunk.
- John Smethells is Frank Carlson's steward. It's very useful when you need to know who to go to when you have a problem.
- Lady Georgia Lambeth is a woman who Frank Carlson knows from before but has not seen in five years. On board the Titanic, she seems desperate because she doesn't get along well with her husband Lord Charles. And the man she was in love with a year ago also turned out to be a crook.
- Colonel Alfred Zeitel is the main antagonist of the game. He was supposed to steal the rubayiat in order to exchange it for a painting after the trip.
- Leyland Sachum Trask is a fortune teller and has psychic powers. For example, he can read the origin and history of many objects from them by just looking at them.
- Edgar Troutt is an American missionary returning from a religious mission in Nyasaland. Unfortunately, his wife died there.
- Willi von Haderlitz is a young Austrian and studies, as the Colonel calls it, “children's fables” at the University of Vienna. He and the Colonel spend a lot of time together until Haderlitz is electrocuted and found dead in the electric bath. He was on his way west to study Indians, he said. He's actually a Russian agent.
- Andrew Conkling is the owner of Conkling Stahl Ltd. and made the steel for the Titanic. However, this steel is very sulphurous and the document that says it was stolen by his former housekeeper, Shailagh Hacker. If the letter were published in the press, the reputation of Conkling and his wife Beatrix would be ruined.
- Buick Riviera is a Frenchman who can be found in the smoking room on the A - deck at the gaming table. In the last part of the game you can play blackjack against him in an alternative solution and bet on one of his valuable items (the rubaiyat, the painting or the real diamond necklace). If you win, you get an entry card for the lifeboat from him. Beware: you only have one chance!
There are other characters in the game. Depending on how you accomplish your mission, you may not even meet some of the characters not mentioned. As soon as you enter into dialogue with the characters, the otherwise computer-generated figures are replaced by portraits of real actors.
Game principle and technology
Titanic: Adventure Out of Time is a 1st-person adventure, which means that the presentation of the event is from the perspective of the player. The camera can be freely rotated on the X-axis. The player controls his character with the help of the keyboard through the environment and can interact with virtual objects and people with a click of the mouse. Much of the game consists of long dialogues with the other passengers. There are also some classic object puzzles and smaller mini-games such as blackjack or fencing . At a certain point in the game, the Titanic collides with the iceberg. From this point on, the player is under time pressure to solve the last puzzles and to take objects. The outcome of the game changes depending on the result of his investigation. The player can wander through the entire ship, or to move faster, switch directly between the individual locations with the help of a floor plan.
In addition to the actual game, there is an alternative inspection mode in which the user can explore the ship without time pressure or tasks. Spread across the ship, the user encounters a number of characters from whom he can learn details about the ship, its crew or the events that led to its sinking from conversations. The original game contained three of these virtual witnesses, and ten more were later made available for download from the company's website. Later versions of the game included this as a bonus.
Production notes
According to William C. Appletons, developer of the DreamFactory technology used in the game, the game has sold over five million times.
In December 2017, the digital platform GOG published a version for download that can run on modern computers .
reception
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Titanic: Adventure Out of Time received mixed reviews. The Metacritic review database aggregates 5 reviews to a mean value of 70%. The trade magazine Adventure Gamers placed the game at number 100 in its 2011 list of Top 100 All-Time Adventure Games .
“Is Titanic a good game? Yes and no. Yes, there is an interesting story, a visually sumptuous and often thrilling re-creation of the ship, and much to do and see. But a disproportionate amount of time is taken up watching twitchy talking heads natter endlessly. "
Titanic is a very well crafted adventure game with a complex, engaging plot. It also offers a visually stunning, accurate recreation of the famous (or should I say infamous?) Ocean liner. The puzzles may not be particularly hard, but the game gives you so many different things to do that the puzzles never take center stage.
On the occasion of its TV documentary Titanic - Raising a Legend , the Discovery Channel used graphics from the adventure to illustrate its theme website and advertised the game in a section on this page. Other Titanic-themed documentaries and books used screenshots and animations of the game.
Web links
- Titanic: An interactive journey at MobyGames (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cyberflix : The Titanic Game ( English ) In: Official company website . Archived from the original on June 2, 2004. Retrieved March 23, 2012: “ Historically accurate digital reconstruction of the RMS Titanic with stunning, photorealistic graphics. Easy to navigate, fully explorable 3D environments. "
- ↑ Cyberflix : History ( English ) In: Official company website . Archived from the original on December 6, 2000. Retrieved on March 23, 2012: “ CyberFlix employed a full-time historical researcher as part of the production team for the entire duration of the title's production. Time-yellowed shipbuilders' documents, archival photos and historical treatises were consulted in making sure the ship was visually as close to the real thing as possible - right down to the tile pattern on the floor in the Turkish Bath and the crest on the china in the Cafe Parisian. "
- ^ Leo Marriott : Titanic . Haynes Publishing, 1997, ISBN 1-85648-433-5 , pp. 131 .
- ^ William Appleton: Publications ( English ) In: The Cloud Warrior (private blog) . November 15, 1996. Archived from the original on November 30, 2011. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved March 24, 2012: “ Titanic: Adventure out of Time has sold over 5 million copies, one of the most successful CD-ROM games of all time. "
- ↑ a b GameSpot.com: Titanic: Adventure Out of Time. Retrieved July 3, 2018 .
- ↑ a b GameRankings.com: Titanic: Adventure Out of Time. Retrieved July 3, 2018 .
- ↑ AdventureGamers.com: Top 100 All-Time Adventure Games. Retrieved January 2, 2016 .
- ↑ Wojciech Kotas: Reviews - Titanic: Adventure out of Time ( English ) In: MacGamer . Archived from the original on February 26, 2007. Retrieved March 24, 2012.
- ↑ Discovery Channel : Virtual Titanic ( English ) In: Official company website . Archived from the original on May 29, 1997. Retrieved March 24, 2012.
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from April 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
