Reviewers Liked
- Authentic remake
- In-game hints are well-designed to give you just enough help
Reviewers Didn't Like
- Silly dialogue
- Graphical overhaul is competent but lacking soul
Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers 20th Anniversary Edition
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The eponymous Gabriel Knight is a womanizing, struggling novelist who owns a used bookstore in New Orleans' French Quarter. He's also the star of Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Father , the classic Sierra adventure, freshly remade for its 20th anniversary...
By Digital Trends onOver twenty years ago, a rash of bizarre serial killings rocked New Orleans with its grim voodoo trappings. Yet the Voodoo Murders did more than just turn The Big Easy on its side; they kicked off a dark, mature mystery, shaking up a landscape of...
By GameSpot onAdventure gaming has changed a lot since 1993, and Sins of the Fathers is a product of its time. When it first came out, Gabriel Knight was one of the first dark and scary adventures in a sea of light-hearted fare like King's Quest and Monkey Island. How...
By in.ign.com onGabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers is a good point and click adventure game, and its 20th Anniversary Edition is a very bad port. Technical issues abound, the high-definition graphics look far worse than their DOS forebears, and nearly every change that’s been made is for the worse.
By HardcoreGamer onThe game follows Gabriel Knight, a struggling author and bookstore owner living in New Orleans, right on Bourbon Street. A series of voodoo-themed killings inspire him to write a horror...
By CGM onWhen adventure games took off in the early 1990s, they were cartoonish, fanicful flights of light-hearted adventure. Not that there was anything bad with that, but those games weren't exactly stretching the medium to create adventures with a more mature...
By CriticalHit onDas neu aufgelegte Gabriel Knight ist ein spannendes Point-and-Click-Adventure mit viel Voodoo-Zauber, das durch seine Story und die schöne Grafik überzeugt.TestergebnisProduktnameGabriel Knight: Sins of Fathers 20th Anniversary...
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Thema verfehlt: Das Remake spielt sich gut, die Rätsel haben sich gehalten, die Story eh, aber die Stimmung ging...
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Es ist absehbar, dass sich „Gabriel-Knight“-Puristen an dem einen oder anderen Detail des Remakes stoßen werden. Wer massiv auf den Grundfesten des Originals besteht, wird sich über die aufgebohrte Grafik, das entschlackte Interface und die neuen...
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