This Is Not Your Father's Zork!
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TM #118 Special "Jt's Alive!;, Issue Zork Nemesis This Is Not Your Father's Zork! The first part of the quest chal Stone, not overlooking the extermi t's a long way from the Little lenges you to find four elements - nation of Nemesis in the process. White House to the Forbidden earth, fire, air and water. Each corre Lands, where the latest in the sponds to the work of a particular Panavision Revisited classic series unfolds. Designed alchemist. These are hidden in the Visually, Zork Nemesis is stunning. by Cecilia Barajas and Mark temple, and only after you have I Not only are the graphics and videos Long, Zork Nemesis begins in the returned them to the altar can you beautifully conceived and executed, Temple of the Ancients, where you operate the mechanism that teleports but a fascinating 3D-style display have traveled in search of four miss you to four destinations that com called "Z-Vision Surround ing alchemists: prise the bulk of the game .. Technology" allows you to "pan" Upon You around the room in a 360-degree discov may circle. The smart cursor alerts you of ering visit the objects, places and people with they are asylum whom you may interact. Many of trapped where these are depicted with full-window inside Dr. pictures when you move closer. stone Sartorius The spartan interface consists sole sar conduct ly of right and left mouse clicks. cophagi, ed his There is no inventory box. You cycle you set experi through objects by clicking the right out to ments button, and use the currently select rescue on ed item by hitting the left button. them by cadav Dialogue is mostly one-way and tracking ers, rem used mainly to advance the plot and down iniscent provide clues. People may speak to Nemesis. This is the demon responsi of Dr. Frankenstein's work, or Castle ble for the evil curse that threatens to Irondune, home of another of .... Continued on page 14 spread from the Forbidden Lands alchemist. Letters, books and full across the Great Underground motion video sequences gradually Empire. unveil an engaging story line. The Ye Contents four alchemists, each seeking the Stonekeep ................................ 3 The Book of Philosopher's Stone, joined forces at Clues Ill, only the Temple of the Ancients in order I Have No Mouth ...................... 4 to obtain the Stone before Nemesis Journeyman Project 2 ...............5 $9.95 could do so. That's when he snared them - so your ultimate goal Thunderscape ........................... 6 if ordered by June 15, 1996. becomes to plumb the depths of The Dig ................................... 7 Nearly half-price! Get 20 alchemy and get the Philosopher's Quest for Quests ......................8 solutions for less than Keys to the Kingdoms ... ......... 10 50 cents each! See page 11. Walkthru: ............................... 12 ·Qllil JDWRI i Back in the Saddle other month. Renewals have been content for AOL, and other online reduced to $10 (for 6 issues) to services as well as direct Internet We're back - and you are probably reflect this, with a $3 surcharge for where we've been. The story didn't access are ir~ the offing. Games First Class delivery and $ 15 for make CNN, but QuestBusters was include Descent, Dragon Dice, MUD overseas. taken hostage by terrorists! Only II, Battle Chess 4000 and more, with yesterday did the note from ALF up to fifteen by the end of 1996. (Adventurers Liberation Front) did New Quests reveal their demands: "Order The While few games are released in the E3 Lineup Book of Clues III today - and get summer, we can look forward to We will not be attending the E3 one for a friend too!" several from major companies. show in Los Angeles this year, So here's the deal: to compensate Access will have The Pandora's which unfortunately coincides with for the delay between issues, we are Directive, the latest Tex Murphy the World Series of Poker in Las offering an amazing discount on the interactive movie, out soon. Vegas. But here are some titles that new clue book - $9.~5 for a $17.95 Domark is shipping a quest that will be showing there (look for book, nearly half off. (See page 11.) features the Word "Sword" in it. (I details in issue #119.) Legend Your order must be postmarked by know, because they sent a letter Entertainment will ship Callahan's June 15 to get the discount. (Enclose opener that's an eight-inch sword, Crosstime Saloon in October. Based $3 for shipping; $8 for overseas.) but didn't put the name of the on the comic sci fi novels, it was After that, it will cost $17.95. game on the base). produced by Josh Mandel. Sierra Unfortunately, we no longer accept LucasArts' Indiana ]ones and his will show Phantasmagoria 2, Rama, credit cards: the machines cost so Desktop Adventures is already here. The Time Wmp of Doctor Brain and much to rent, that we actually lost It's a simple but addictive treasure money for the past four years by Lords of the Realm 2. OB hunt that randomly rescrambles offering this service.) the story, world and objects in Every dime in the Guild treasury went into printing the book - and each new quesl,.allo•1,ng for "bil lions" of possible games. New ....... we had to fill the postage meter with Editor: Shay Addams a credit card! With sky high priµting World Computing's Heroes of Might Managing Editor: Dora McCormick and mailing expenses, QB is already and Magic is also out now. Editorial Consultant: Edgar Schrock News Editor: Jackie Collins an iffy break-even project. The Contributing Editors: Fred). Phillip, Clancy books are what keep QB going, so if Ultima On-line Shaffer, Paul Shaffer, Al Giovett( Russ Ceccola, you ever plan to buy this book, do it Bernie Yee, Ken St. Andre, Brian Smith, Bruce Electronic Arts and Origin recently Wiley, Duffy, This Reviewer today. And get a great price too! launched a test of online gaming with a multiplayer Ultima . The first QuestBusters, ye offi.cialjournal of the QuestBusters Guild, is published practically Web Site for QB? test was scheduled to run 24 hours every month or so by Eldritch Ltd. Annual With the cost of printing and a day for a week, with over 3,000 Dues: $19 ($6 extra for Adventure Express). postage continuing to escalate, how people from around the world. Canada/Mexico: $26. Overseas: $36. ever, we are considering turning QB QuestBusters, The QuestBusters Guild, Adventure Road, The Book of Clues, Clue into a Web ·site, or at least making it Interplay On-line? Books Express and Keys to the Kingdoms are available online in some way. If you trademarks of Eldritch LTD. TM is a trademark Brian Fargo has spun off Engage would prefer to get the Adventurers of Shay Addams. Contents copyright 1996 Games Online to move Interplay Eldritch, LTD . Copying without express per Journal on the Web, let us know. products into online gaming. mission is prohibited and punishable.by writ Until then, we will publish every ing on the board 1000 times "I am a level 32 They've already signed to provide Intellectual Property Thief." 2 a-••·· Review ···· · ·············· ~···· ··· ····· · ···~·· STONEKEEP walls, the look of the monsters and it Bards Tale 5 with a certain degree often tell folks that there are NPCs, and the pace and play of the I. of accuracy. As Oedipus once said to only two reasons for playing game, · jocasta, computer games - fun or the "Don't money. Critics and reviewers resem you just Ihave it both ways, though far blances love less often than one might suspect. are obvi incest7" Stonekeep reminds me of a third ous. Yet , Be reason: nostalgia. Replaying a fave it's a "we that as it like Wizardry or Bards Tale years later can do it may, fits this definition for sure; but better, what I Stonekeep, an absolutely brand and did" really spankin' new, I love the smell of look and · love shrink wrap in the evening ... release, feel. The about nostalges me into warm smiles and results this inventing terrible verbs. give game is the Slow Starter Stonekeep a wee-bit old fashioned fla Faerie Realm. Humor in a CPRG is vor that is refreshing and compelling. usually honored in its absence, or It took Interplay four years to pro duce Stonekeep , and that represents And a lot of fun. And nostalgic. slandered by its juvenilia. Not so generations in the game business, here. Forget what you know about Faeries; the ones inhabiting both technologically and stylisticalli It's All in the Family Stonekeep's world can bring guffaws At a time when electronic games Interplay made its name a decade to the calloused. Each has its own compete more and more on technol ago with Bard 's Tale, a CRPG distinct personality and each is beau ogy, not story - my SVGA+++ reso described by many at the time as tifully acted. Since good writing and lution is better than yours, nah, nah, Wizardry with color .graphics. The good acting are rarely found in this nah! for example - Stonekeep's VGA game was distributed by Electronic game genre, the Faerie level alone is looks dated. Where side-steppin', Arts, which owns the copyright to worth the price. fast-shootin', a million mega-mon the name Bard's Tale . The two com I also delighted in a gamble sters around every bend is the panies eventually parted, leaving Interplay took. While there is ample expected, this game has a leisurely, Brian Fargo and Interplay.