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Ankh

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

Part of the Following Groups

• 3D Engine: OGRE
• Ankh series
• Egyptian setting

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The Press Says

Yiya	Nov 17, 2005	B+	83
Just Adventure	Apr 13, 2006	B+	83
Adventure Corner	Nov 16, 2005	82 out of 100	82
videogamer.com	Jan 12, 2006	8 out of 10	80
Pro-G	Dec 01, 2006	8 out of 10	80
Adventure Lantern	May, 2006	79 out of 100	79
FOK!games	Mar 05, 2006	79 out of 100	79
PC Gameplay (Benelux)	Feb, 2006	78 out of 100	78
GameStar (Germany)	Oct, 2005	78 out of 100	78
Gamer.nl	Mar 12, 2006	6.5 out of 10	65

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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.