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The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight Mystery

Description

The Beast Within is a direct sequel to Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers, the first in the supernatural mystery adventure series telling the story of a bookstore owner and writer Gabriel Knight, the last offspring of generations of Schattenjaegers (shadowhunters), whose task is to fight the evil forces that abound in the world.

After leaving New Orleans, Gabriel moves to the Ritter Castle in Bavaria, Germany, his family heritage. One day, a group of peasants approach the castle, and the elder tells you about a terrible death of a little girl, who was killed by a vicious wolf. Suspecting the wolf could be a supernatural creature, the peasant asks you, the Schattenjaeger, to purge the evil. The investigation brings Gabriel and his assistant Grace Nakimura to the mysterious Hunter Society and to Bavaria's dark past.

The Beast Within utilizes a cast of live actors and full-motion video technology: the actors are filmed over photorealistic images of Munich and its surroundings, and nearly every interaction with the environment leads to a FMV sequence. However, unlike most interactive movies that were popular in this era, The Beast Within is a full-fledged adventure game, with a lot of dialogues, detective work to do, and puzzles to solve. Unlike the first game, it is entirely controlled through point-and-click actions. All the icons have been replaced by a single cursor.

Alternate Titles

• "狩魔猎人2" -- Chinese title (simplified)
• "תעלומת Gabriel Knight: החיה שבתוכו" -- Hebrew spelling
• "The Beast Within: Ein Gabriel Knight Krimi" -- German title
• "TBW" -- Common abbreviation
• "Ta'alumat Gabriel Knight: Ha-Khaya she Betokho" -- Hebrew title
• "GK2" -- Informal abbreviation
• "Gabriel Knight: The Beast Within" -- Informal title
• "Gabriel Knight: A Fera Interior" -- Brazilian title
• "Gabriel Knight 2" -- informal title

Part of the Following Groups

• Gabriel Knight series
• Game Engine: Sierra's Creative Interpreter (SCI)
• Games made into books
• Werewolf-inspired games

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User Reviews

Is it possible for something to be above the best!? Yup, I guess it is :)	MAT (35183)
The Gabriel Knight Series sets the bar for other adventure games to beat	mclazyj (28)
Very good, but WHY an interactive movie style?	Gav Powell (26)
A gripping story and a true achievement	jTrippy (53)
More good than bad things	frin (148)
The Quality FMV Game	Game22 (42)
Excellent, but what does Richard Wagner and King Ludwig II have to do with werewolves?	Black Wolf (37232)	unrated
A victim of the dreaded FMV-death	Joakim Kihlman (267)
One of the better FMV efforts available	Afterburner (478)

The Press Says

Tap-Repeatedly/Four Fat Chicks	Mar 09, 2002	5 out of 5	100
Just Adventure	Mar 07, 2003	A+	100
Puntaeclicca.it	Mar, 1999	9.5 out of 10	95
Adventure-Treff	Jun 09, 2003	92 out of 100	92
PC Player (Denmark)	1996	91 out of 100	91
Adventure Gamers	Jan 23, 2004		90
Adventure Zone	Aug 19, 2008	9 out of 10	90
Gamezilla	1996	89 out of 100	89
GameSpot	May 01, 1995	8.3 out of 10	83
High Score	Apr, 1996	3 out of 5	60

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Trivia

Gabriel Knight 2 (AKA "The Beast Within") was named #17 overall among the “150 Best Games of All Time” by Computer Gaming World Magazine (15th Anniversary Issue--November 1996).