Amerzone: The Explorer's Legacy

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Description

In 1932, Alexandre Valembois was a young explorer who, with his native friend Anonio Alverez, wanted to make a name for himself by exploring the mysterious Amerzone region. Befriended by the natives of the region, he witnessed a strange ritual involving a giant egg of the famed white birds. Wanting to prove that the white birds existed, Alexandre stole the mysterious egg and betrayed the natives' trust Returning to France, nobody believed Alexandre or his journals about the Amerzone. Sixty years have passed and the world has changed. World War 2 has come and gone, the Amerzone remains unexplored and closed off to outsiders by it's despotic leader, Anoino Alverez. Monsieur Alexandre Valembois is an old man at the end of his life, living alone in a lighthouse and wishing to fix his mistake. At this time, a young reporter comes to visit the old Alexandre Valembois regarding his adventures...

Amerzone is a first person adventure game, similar to Myst, taking place between different rooms and areas. The player assumes the role of the reporter and must unravel the clues left by Monsieur Valembois, travelling over several picturesque locations and eventually reaching the fictional Amerzone region. The adventure game takes place over a series of areas. The player can click on arrow icons to change the orientation or to move to different areas. Objects of interest change the cursor to a magnifying glass icon. Objects that can be interacted with or picked up change the cursor to a hand icon. An icon of gears represents a mechanism which must be manipulated before it can be properly used. The player's inventory can be accessed at any time.

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Alternate Titles

• "L'Amerzone: Le testament de l'explorateur" -- French title
• "Amerzone: Testament Odkrywcy" -- Polish title
• "Amerzone: Il Testamento dell'Esploratore" -- Italian title
• "Amerzone: El Legado del Explorador" -- Spanish title
• "Amerzone: Das Testament des Forschungsreisenden" -- German re-release title
• "Amerzone: Das dunkle Vermächtnis" -- German title

Part of the Following Groups

• Inspiration: Comics
• Middleware: Phoenix VR
• Theme: Steampunk

User Reviews

Decently fun to play	Windows	ThE oNe (178)
Another "Myst-clone" that just doesn't measure up.	Windows	Jeanne (75627)

The Press Says

Jeuxvideo.com	Windows	Feb 22, 1999	18 out of 20	90
Power Unlimited	Windows	Sep, 1999	8.3 out of 10	83
Jeuxvideo.com	PlayStation	Dec 16, 1999	16 out of 20	80
Adventure-Treff	Windows	Jun 25, 2003	75 out of 100	75
PC Gameplay (Benelux)	Windows	Sep, 1999	73 out of 100	73
Power Unlimited	PlayStation	Mar, 2000	7 out of 10	70
PC Joker	Windows	Oct, 1999	62 out of 100	62
Aventura y Cía	Windows	Apr 21, 2004		60
UHS (Universal Hint System)	Windows	Jun 03, 2000		60
IGN	Windows	Dec 01, 1999	5.5 out of 10	55

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Trivia

Comic

Amerzone is based on a graphic novel by Benoît Sokal L'Amerzone. Published in France in 1993 by Casterman, it is part of the Inspecteur Canardo series started back in 1978. Canardo is Sokal's best known character. In Canardo, most of the characters are animals (Canardo himself is "somewhere between Philip Marlowe and Donald Duck") but the universe is much like a dystopian Disney: very dark, filled with melancholy and disillusion.

The original comic book tells the adventure of the P.I. Canardo, hired by Valembois' family to find the old explorer, who was missing since he went to Amerzone on a last expedition. Valembois hopes to find the legendary White Birds before he dies...

The game differs a lot from the graphic novel, which is more dark and violent, but the background universe and the country of Amerzone itself are very similar.

Title

Amerzone is actually a pun on Amazone (french for the Amazon river) and "amer" which means "bitter".

Related Web Sites

• Amerzone -- The Adventure Company's official Amerzone site
• Amerzone -- Microids' official Amerzone site
• Amerzone - FAQs & Guides -- Various guides posted on GameFaqs.com
• AmerZone: Review and Walkthrough -- A short review of The Explorer's Legacy at Balmoral Software, which is followed by a detailed chapter by chapter walkthrough of the game (Nov. 18th, 2002).
• Amerzone-The Explorer's Legacy Walkthrough -- by Jim Blanchard
• Amerzone Walkthrough -- Walkthrough for Amerzone
• Hints for Amerzone -- Give you question and answer type clues before the final solution is revealed.
• Wikipedia: AmerZone: The Explorer's Legacy -- Information about AmerZone: The Explorer's Legacy at Wikipedia
• Zarf's Review -- A PC review of The Explorer's Legacy by Andrew Plotkin (December, 1999).