Advertising Blurbs
MicroProse Entertainment Software Catalog (1992):
The legendary Phantom of the Opera has returned to the Paris Opera House! As Inspector Raoul Montand, you're the only one who can pursue The Red Death into the past and prevent him from terrorizing the present!
This animated graphic adventure will have you searching for clues along the catwalks, wings, and backstage rooms of the opera house. Interviewing witnesses and suspects. Pursuing the Phantom through a labyrinth of subterranean catacombs. And finally confronting the Phantom face-to-face!
It's a backstage pass to mystery and intrigue in Return Of The Phantom!
Contributed by Corn Popper (66198) on May 31, 2005.
MPS FTP:
Battle The Legendary Phantom of the Opera!
The Phantom of the Opera is dead, or is he?
That's the question you must answer in MicroProse's new animated
graphic adventure, Return of the Phantom, a vivid, computer-driven
theater production drawn from the events of the classic novel by
Gaston Leroux first published
in 1911.
The story begins in the summer of 1993. You are Inspector Raoul
Montand, visiting the famed Paris Opera House to attend the premiere
of the legendary Don Juan Triumphant, supposedly composed by Erik, the
Phantom of the Opera. But a ghastly accident stops the production
before it starts, and all the evidence seems to indicate that the
Phantom himself is still alive!
Then things take a truly bizarre twist. While investigating the crime
you are pushed from a catwalk by an unseen assailant and plunged
backward in time to 1881! Suddenly, everyone believes you are Raoul de
Chagny, lover of the beautiful opera singer Christine Daae, and rival
to the real Phantom of the Opera.
What follows in Return of the Phantom is a brilliant blend of mystery,
suspense, and high drama. According to game designer Raymond Benson,
Return of the Phantom borrows a great deal from theatrical melodrama.
"It's very much like a theater piece. The story is very much character
oriented and the story unfolds mostly through dialogue you will have
with other characters. Conversations are not incidental in the game,
they are critical for moving the plot forward so you must be paying
attention at all times. The story is also told in scenes, and the
characters often make the kinds of dramatic gestures seen in theater
productions."
At the heart of the game's dramatic presentation is MADS, the
MicroProse Adventure Development System first used in Rex Nebular and
the Cosmic Gender Bender, MicroProse's first animated graphic
adventure game. The system features dazzling animation and rotoscoping
of actual human movement and motion to give characters the most
realistic look ever seen in an AGA, all set against a backdrop of
evocative, sensual art that fully captures the spirit (no pun
intended) of 19th Century Paris. Return of the Phantom expands MADS
with multi-plane scrolling rooms, character portraits in dialogue
boxes, and an enhanced conversation system more appropriate to the
plot, making the game even more realistic.
Unlike many AGAs, Return of the Phantom is designed for computer
gamers new to animated graphic adventures as well as veteran AGA
players. "There are lots of mysteries and clever puzzles to solve, but
the game is very accessible and would make a great introduction to
these kinds of games. There's lots of conflict and action, but there's
also lots of drama to keep players constantly entertained," Raymond
said.
Having a strong theater background from which to draw inspiration for
a game such as this doesn't hurt, either. "I majored in Theatre and
have a degree in Directing, and spent 11 years working in New York on
various productions," Raymond explained. "I have an interest in film
and theatre and I look for story-based games that allow me to develop
characters. I tend to look for ways to tell a story with pictures as
well as dialogue."
Return of the Phantom
IBM-PC/compatibles
286/386/486 (12+ MHz) รน DOS 3.1+
2 MB RAM
Keyboard, mouse
MCGA or VGA graphics
Roland, Ad Lib, Soundblaster and Covox
Contributed by Itay Shahar (1728) on Jan 02, 2004.
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