It has to be my personal favorite historical suspense/thriller packaged neatly as a point-and-click game. I love it the most for the excellent recreation of the late soviet atmosphere, with all its seediness and decadent grayness. The plot involving snuff movies, criminals and prostitutes, CIA and KGB agents, and both hardline communist and neo-nazi Pamyat conspiracies (along with standard spy stuff like double and triple cross etc) is also great. I mean, you witness and then take part in some pretty disturbing scenes-- which kinda become part of the allure and the aforementioned atmosphere. My favorite scene is what happens at the cinic on "Progress of Mankind Street" (great name, that! ) with Professor Tsibulenko-- here, one gets the idea of the Soviet Union was a biopunk / psypunk dystopian state founded on restructuring of human psyche and ESP. Now that's disturbing!
Anybody else here a fan? Anybody interested in sequels or fanfics detailing the later exploits of Captain Rukov? Or a dystopian AH where the New Birth conspiracy suceeds when Comrade Protopopov makes that speech?
For those who have never played the game, and would like to, abandonia has a copy for download. The Amiga version has better music, though. Ahh... I wish there were more gritty, disturbing and tough adventure games like this.
Anybody else here a fan? Anybody interested in sequels or fanfics detailing the later exploits of Captain Rukov? Or a dystopian AH where the New Birth conspiracy suceeds when Comrade Protopopov makes that speech?
For those who have never played the game, and would like to, abandonia has a copy for download. The Amiga version has better music, though. Ahh... I wish there were more gritty, disturbing and tough adventure games like this.
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