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Road to India
A preview by slydos, 21st March 2001
After Microids showed us with Amerzone an imaginary Central American country, the gamer now is led into a conflicting yet fascinating India with its centuries of history, its traditions and the colourful crowds of its lively streets. Locations are, among others, New Dehli, the Taj Mahal and the temple of the Kali-worshipper.
The American student Fred Reynolds arrives at Neu Dehli airport, to join his indian fiancèe Anusha, who he met first at the university, visiting her relatives for a few weeks. But everything changes when Anusha gets kidnapped by the mysterious sect of the Thugs, who are bent on human sacrifices and overthrow of the Indian government. Fred now must make his way in a foreign land with its different culture, of which he only knows little, to rescue his fiancèe and stop the Kali worshippers.He has 3 days to do this. During the game each day is broken down into two very different parts: reality (day and night) and on the other side Fred's dream world, when Fred is asleep. Fred must rescue Anusha either in dream and in reality. But while he has to solve puzzles set into postcard-like India in his dreams, he'll carry out a more effective investigation exploring a more contemporary, contrast-filled India in reality. So there are two different stories in one, whereas there is more puzzle-solving in the dream-phases, while Fred gets ahead in modern India rather through interaction with other characters. Fred can interact and speak to seven main characters and meets a couple of supporting secondary caracters.
In Road to India all characters are real-time 3D-animated and evolve in prerendered environments with the freedom of 360 degrees vision in first-person-perspective. Every time, the gamer has solved a puzzle and progress should be shown, the gamer is rewarded by action-packed cut-scenes (around 15 minutes in total).
The game length is more or less 20 hours. It's an adventure game, that besides beautiful graphics and suspenseful story also presents a new location with the country of India, not visited by game designers until now.
Estimated release date: 23rd May 2001.
| Platform PC CD-ROM Hardware requirements Pentium II 200 Mhz 32MB RAM CD-ROM 8x 3D-card 8 MB Software requirements Win95/98/2000 |
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adventurearchiv - 21-03-01
