The once noble series about Atlantis impoverished and lost the remnants of past glory. Previously, the game was known as "Atlantis V», but during the development of the serial number fell off. Apparently, the risk to fall off and Atlantis itself.
No kidding. Often we are involved in the events, with Atlantis in no way connected. That does not make the game worse, but does not avoid the feeling that our expectations are disappointed. Forget the exotic: a good half of the game takes place in everyday environments. No exciting trips - we wandered through the corridors of Empire State Building and flirting with middle-aged secretaries. Every time we need from them some nonsense: a glossy magazine, hairpins. You were life adventure?
 | |  | The people ran up so fast that nobody even took away the dishes. No wonder: according to impact, the airship crashed into the iceberg. It remains to find out where in the sky come from icebergs. | | Game could be recommended for children, if not need to explain why this young lady at the bar said that the works, though nothing like busy. |
Raincoats and hats Last century, the end of the thirties. Howard Brooks, an engineer who participated in the creation of the world's largest airship "Hindenburg", is back in this very airship home. Suddenly the airship stops, if someone struggling pulled emergency brake. Passengers hardly stay on their feet, and to our hero fit two unsmiling man in a raincoat and hat. "You, Mr. Brooks?" - "Yes, I am. What's happening? "-" Nothing, just wanted to make sure ... "is followed by a blow with a blunt object, and the hero is turned off. During this brief conversation the characters' mouths do not open: "budget" game easier to turn heroes into ventriloquists than spend money on additional animation.
When Howard wakes up, Airship helplessly hanging in the air, passengers are requested not to leave the cabin, and the team patches the damaged lining. Our task - to fix several mechanisms airship, or risk getting stuck between the clouds for a long time. Solution to the problem suspiciously resembles the work of a plumber. Do you like to change the tube?
 | |  | In the second half of the game we finally pulled out of the ordinary corridors to meet long-awaited exotic. | | Perhaps the game was still willing to eight years ago, but this time had forgotten someone on the far dusty shelf? |
Indiana Jones and the World of Tomorrow The game is clearly gravitating toward the "film noir" genre of the noble and win-win. Borrowing some of its features, the game does not correspond to its spirit, and eventually obtained a funny hybrid - "Glamour-noir."The protagonist - a loner, not derelict, and a successful engineer, and his words - not so much bitter sarcasm, as gentle humor. Femme fatale is absolutely harmless. Long shadows are combined with colors so gaudy that it seems we're back in the days of 256 colors. However, this was not the worst of times.
If you constantly remind yourself that the show originates from the last century, and if you want, even from the last millennium, then a lot can be regarded as following the tradition. Then it was considered commonplace, that the hero is placed in the pockets as outdoor ashtray (height - about three feet) and the ladder length is three meters. Then it was in the order of things, not only lock the safe clever puzzles, but also to specify the solution directly above the door.
 | |  | Among other things, we'll have to play poker. | | Lengthy interviews with movie stars as a bodyguard. |
Crossword puzzle on the last page Generally, to create entertaining puzzle is very hard, and special achievements in this area we did not expect: all the same episode, does not pretend to be the very, very, but simply trying to survive. But we have the right to require the original puzzle, and at the show, even with these difficulties. How did the "Atlantis" allowed itself to use as puzzles have long been plain-old patterns (how about a party in Sokoban?), And this series does not scruple to use the same vile trick. Sudoku player makes awkward avert their eyes, what to expect next, crossword puzzles? About pyatnashki can not even ask, of course, they are the most common, four by four.
Probably, when the show stops still exist, the authors will be selling collectors collected the World Wide Web essays.
Completes the picture of zero complexity of the game. Moreover, all that happens is divided into many tiny pieces: here are a couple of rooms, we decided artless puzzle, passed in the next couple of rooms. Lack of active points in the inventory is almost no items, everything is obvious. Five minutes to an interactive book. But if we started the game, you should not throw it halfway.
City of lost opportunities Since then the unexpected happens. In the second half of the game as if beginning to wake up from sleep. Discarding the last inappropriate noir allusions, it throws the characters in exotic ancient palace, which must be in the game about Atlantis. And then, at the very end, in front of us suddenly appears full-fledged quest: to loose the tasks with lomyaschimsya of inventory items and compelling way for action. This metamorphosis all the more enjoyable, which is quite unexpected. But before the curtain, there is very little.
If this was the whole game, but today in her address would be spoken at all other words and put another score, but someone has too long harnessed.
 | Airships |
"Hindenburg" - a symbol of greatness and decline of the era of airships. 250-meter giant, able to carry onboard more than 130 people, of whom slightly less than half - the crew. The airship was not the fastest or the practical mode of transport, but the most luxurious and romantic. Unlike aircraft, taking off and landing are still suggest the passengers panic, Airship soared into the air almost silently and unnoticed. In addition, airships until then had been perfectly safe mode of transport: the previous airship "Graf Zeppelin" flew more than half a million miles without a single accident.
End of era airships came in May 1937, when the "Hindenburg" approach after a transatlantic flight from Europe to America. Flash fire turned the car into a giant flaming torch. The presumable cause of the accident - ignition of skin caused by a spark from the accumulated static electricity. Forty seconds the airship was destroyed, killing more than thirty persons, the era of giant celestial ship is gone. Seems like forever.
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