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Macintosh
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4.1
Nintendo DS
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Windows
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3.7

Description

Ankh is a remake of the 1998 RISC OS point-and-click adventure Ankh: The Tales of Mystery. Assil, a young Egyptian architect's son, steals the key of the great pyramid in Cairo to throw a party, but once inside he accidentally knocks over some ancient urns. Struck by a death curse of a disturbed mummy, he has very little time left. At the same time, however, he receives the magical ankh, and he may be about to meet the woman of his dreams. The pharaoh is the only one who can help you, but you are just a pleb, so you need to travel through the Egyptian locale and find a way to attract his attention.

The game uses a 3D engine with a fixed camera and everything is controlled by the mouse. Upon hovering over items, the appropriate action appears: walking, running, looking, picking up, talking or using. Items are gathered in the inventory at the top of the screen. You can examine them, use them in the environment, or combine to create a new item. At certain moments, you control multiple characters and need to exchange items to solve the puzzles. The tab button brings up a list of all open quests.

Although there is no time dependency, the curse's effects become visible when the magic takes over control of Assil's body, and mystical tattoos appear progressively. The graphics and humour are reminiscent of the LucasArts adventures, and Telltale Games, with many ex-LucasArts employees aboard, took on an advisory role for the project.

Alternate Titles

  • "Анк" -- Russian title
  • "La malédiction du Roi Scarabée" -- French DS release
  • "Ankh: Klątwa Mumii" -- Polish title
  • "Ankh: Der Fluch des Skarabäenkönigs" -- German DS title
  • "Ankh: Curse of the Scarab King" -- English DS title

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The Press Says

Adventure Zone Windows Aug 14, 2008 9 out of 10 90
Just Adventure Windows Apr 13, 2006 B+ 83
Pro-G Windows Dec 01, 2006 8 out of 10 80
Mystery Manor Windows Jan 23, 2007 8 out of 10 80
Adventure Advocate Windows Apr 11, 2006 4 Stars4 Stars4 Stars4 Stars4 Stars 80
Fragland.net Windows Mar 29, 2006 75.7 out of 100 76
Computer and Video Games (CVG) Windows Feb 13, 2006 B 75
La Aventura es la Aventura Windows Nov 23, 2007 70 out of 100 70
Absolute Games (AG.ru) Windows Apr 12, 2006 67 out of 100 67
Inside Mac Games (IMG) Macintosh May 01, 2007 6 out of 10 60

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Trivia

At the event "GameStar/GamePro Leserpreis 2006" (23. February 2006) Ankh received the trophy "Best German PC Game in 2005" after the reader's voting of German gaming magazine GameStar.


This entry was contributed by Charly2.0 (12035) and Sciere Bronze Star Contributing Member (119175)
 

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