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Death Gate

Description

Two thousand years ago, an advanced race known as Sartan split the world into five realms. The mensch races - the humans, dwarves, and elves - were split between four of those worlds named for the four elements, and the race of Patryn was banished to the deadly Labyrinth. After those two thousand years, some of the Patryn have found their way through the Labyrinth's exit. The game's protagonist is a young Patryn named Haplo, and his mission, given to him by his lord Xar, is to sail through the Death Gate into each of the other worlds to find each world's seal piece, so that the Patryn may reconstruct the planet and have revenge on the Sartan.

Death Gate is an adventure game that follows the tradition of interactive fiction with graphics. The entire game is viewed from first-person perspective and has plenty of text interaction through selectable verb commands, text descriptions, and dialogues with multiple choices. There are also many puzzles in the game, most of them inventory-based. A unique gameplay feature is Haplo's ability to cast magic spells, which are essential for solving many of the game's puzzles.

Part of the Following Group

• Literature-inspired games

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User Reviews

A wonderful literature-inspired game that translated well.	happy-porcupine (1463)
Very clever and immensely enjoyable, a must try!	Tal Cohen (29)
Interactive fiction at its peak	Unicorn B. Lynx (60371)
An excellent adventure game	El-ad Amir (111)
One of the best games ever	Mr Creosote (139)
A surpisingly exceptional spin-off of the Death Gate Cycle books	Gutter Snipe (24)
Were this game a spiky club, I'd take up masochism	Alex Man (32)

The Press Says

The Good Old Days	Dec 22, 2001	6 out of 6	100
Just Adventure	1999	A	100
Coming Soon Magazine	Feb, 1995	91 out of 100	91
GameBoomers	2002	9 out of 10	90
Joystick	Jan, 1995	80 out of 100	80
All Game Guide	1998		80
Quandary	Jan, 1995		80
Power Unlimited	Feb, 1995	7.6 out of 10	76
High Score	Mar, 1995	3 out of 5	60
Just Adventure	Dec, 1994	C	50

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Trivia

The game includes two sets of artwork: a high resolution 640x480 SVGA version, and a low resolution 320x200 MCGA version. The graphics of the latter are not automatically scaled down from the SVGA version; they were manually redrawn to take advantage of the lower resolution.