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AmerzoneReleased: 1999 Manufacturer: Microids
Demo Review:If you go to the Amerzone web site you won't be able to download this demo. When I wrote to ask them about it, they said Microid never even told them there was a demo, they heard about it from readers. They also said that, as it's a 160 meg download (in a single file, they didn't even bother to break it up into something reasonable), not that many people are going to be able to get it anyway.
What you get for this huge download is a very pretty little demo with two really annoying puzzles that I had to cheat on. I've actually played part of this game, although not enough for a review, so I knew when I had done everything I could, but this demo doesn't tell you when you're finished with it. Certainly this demo won't sell anyone in terms of gameplay.
It looks darn nice, though. There are a couple of animated cut scenes with pretty cool, creepy looking characters who's voices sound like they've been done by the people who dub foreign films (which is probably the case -- this is a French game by a fellow named Benoit Sokal). Visually the game is very nice, with birds wheeling across an ash-gray sky and an old, run-down lighthouse. It looks very Myst-like, but unlike Myst you can pan in any direction, and have a 360 degree view of this world. Unfortunately this made me dizzy really really quickly. It's actually worse than the 3D shooters.
Based on the demo and what I've played of the game I think it would be entertaining but with unsatisfactory puzzles, and I think I'd be ill from vertigo. Unless you have an easy time of doing a 160 meg download it's not really worth getting. -- Charles Herold -1999
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