Flight of the Amazon Queen

Combine all this and you got a quality game. While it may not be a classic in the same league as Monkey Island, it's still more than worth giving a go. Some may find the humour less catching but I guess this is all down to taste. Personally, I loved it and it's a solid 5 out of 5 to me.

Die Handlung und das Gameplay sind ausnahmslos gut. Joe King könnte ebensogut Indiana Jones heißen und macht auf mich einen besseren Eindruck als seinerzeit Indy IV. Nicht verpassen!

Wohl keiner Firma haben die Amiganer so nachgetrauert wie Lucas Arts, doch nun machen Australier deren Amiga-Embargo vergessen: Interactive Binary Illusions hat unter den Fittichen von Renegade ein Adventure abgeliefert, das keinen Vergleich mit den US-Abenteuern zu scheuen braucht!

Même si l'on a une impression de déjà vu en jouant à ce soft, on n'en apprécie pas moins la substance et on commence à l'aimer au bout d'une demi-heure. Il possède une longue durée de vie, mais ne parvient tout de même pas au niveau de Guilty ou de Discworld, les deux grands jeux d'aventure du moment.

Som jag nämnde i början av texten är Flight of the Amazon Queen ganska enkelt att klara. Det enda jag igentligen hade problem med (och som de flesta Amazon Queen-spelare förmodligen kommer att ha) visade sig kunna lösas med en enkel knapptryckning. Detta till trots, Flight of the Amazon Queen är ett mycket stort äventyrsspel som bjuder på stunder av god underhållning, mycket god till och med, och även rutinerade äventyrare kommer att ha roligt framför datorn med det här spelet.

Promozione a pieni voti per questo Flight of the Amazon Queen, un gioco da non perdere per tutti gli amanti delle avventure grafiche che cercano valide alternative ai classici LucasArt.

Overall, I would recommend this game but with reservations related to technology. I think that there are a lot of younger computer users out there who have never had to deal with DOS issues, and unless you are comfortable with older technology or really like to fiddle with drivers and configurations and what not, you should probably avoid this game. I think it would be difficult, if not impossible, to actually get it to run under Windows 95 or 98, in either a DOS box or with a DOS reboot, but don't take my word as gospel. If you think you can get it to run, I would recommend it most heartily. Even without the sound effects and voices, I enjoyed Flight of the Amazon Queen a lot.

Flight of the Amazon Queen from Australian developers Interactive Binary Illusions is described as "an irreverent pastiche of the adventure serials that were popular during the 1940's". It is certainly that, and more. It pays homage not only to adventure serials, but also to adventure games. In particular, the influence of LucasArts' Monkey Island and Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis is very noticeable. The humour, whilst not side-splitting is very much tongue-in-cheek and pokes gentle fun, with the net result that you play through much of the game with a smile on your face.

Take Flight of the Amazon Queen, a humorously entertaining point-and-click adventure released in 1995 for Amiga and DOS. A timeless piece of fun, FOTAQ is like a classic film, one with enough unique character, and a bit of light-hearted stereotyping, to transform wrinkles into nostalgia. Though understandably not for all, appreciative adventure fans may want to gear up for this daft and enjoyable trip.

Amazon Queen ist kaum das Bollwerk kühner Geniestreiche, an dem Freaks monatelang knabbern werden. Die Puzzles sind einfach gestrickt, nachvollziehbar und nie zu abgehoben. Alles in allem ein Adventure, durch das man sich ganz gerne spielt, ohne dabei in Euphorie zu verfallen. Sympathisch, aber nicht weltbewegend.

If point-and-click adventure were to have a name (and LucasArts didn't exist) it would be Flight of the Amazon Queen. The classic tale of 1940s pilot-for-hire Joe King is entertainingly steeped in antiquated notions of story and puzzle-solving that lend a nostalgic flair to this remake.

Adventurers, eh? They never set out to get involved in stopping plots for world domination. Usually they're just the average guy or girl on the street, living life as best they can. Somehow they meet a strange person and in the click of a finger find themselves fighting Nazis, saving Holy Grails, defeating evil of all shapes and sizes, finding lost cities...the list goes on and on. Sadly the number of poorly done adventure games is almost as long. So where does Flight of the Amazon Queen fit in? Is it comparable to Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis? Or perhaps - I shudder at the thought - another Secret Mission? Let's have a look.

Was kann da noch großartig schiefgehen, wenn man sich als Programmierer an den LucasArts-Standards orientiert? Erschreckend viel - Flight of the Amazon Queen beweist einmal mehr, daß zwischen "Gut gemeint" und "Gut gemacht" ein himmelweiter Unterschied besteht: Animationen und Grafik auf dem Stand von 1993, mäßig übersetzte Dialoge ohne Saft und Kraft, null Gags, vorhersehbare Puzzles und die unprofessionellste deutsche Sprachausgabe seit langem lassen die Motivation dahinkränkeln.

While "Flight of the Amazon Queen" is reasonably entertaining adventure game fare, and as a spoof it does have its humorous moments, it has its limitations as a truly enjoyable game. Because of its simplicity, it is not likely to be much fun to play again and again, and the characters are only superficially amusing. The graphics are not particularly stunning, and the plot, once solved, doesn't provide enough branching to give you many options next time around. However, it is relatively inexpensive, and as such, has the opportunity to provide some limited entertainment.