Bureaucracy

Bureaucracy ist ein selbst für Infocom-Verhältnisse ungewöhnliches Adventure. Die immer wieder auftauchenden Formulare, die Punkte-Zählung mit dem Blutdruck, die zahlreichen Gags und Anspielungen auf unser tägliches Leben und allerlei Konsumgüter (wie das Buch »Hitchhiker's Guide ...«), all dies macht Bureaucracy zu einem Adventure-Erlebnis, das man so schnell sicher nicht vergißt.

Bureaucracy really represents interactive fiction's best side. You can almost feel the authors must have had much fun writing it! A game with heart and soul.

Back to what I said at the beginning, love of Douglas Adams and love of interactive fiction will translate easily to love of this game. The puzzles can be overly tricky, you'll need to maintain your saves, and you'll need to be a little too reliant on the "try everything" approach to decipher Adams' insane world. Otherwise, a satisfying adventure, and a fitting follow-up to Infocom's Hitchhiker's.

This game has become the standard by which almost all tongue-in-cheek games about real life are measured, and has been imitated many times, but seldom equalled.