Death Gate

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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.

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Part of the Following Groups

• Games with included books (fiction)
• Inspiration: Literature
• Sound engine: AIL/Miles Sound System

User Reviews

Interactive fiction at its peak	DOS	Unicorn Lynx (181441)
Very clever and immensely enjoyable, a must try!	DOS	Tal Cohen (33)
A wonderful literature-inspired game that translated well.	DOS	jlebel (2206)
A surpisingly exceptional spin-off of the Death Gate Cycle books	DOS	Gutter Snipe (26)
An excellent adventure game	DOS	El-ad Amir (124)
One of the best games ever	DOS	Mr Creosote (353)
Were this game a spiky club, I'd take up masochism	DOS	Alex Man (32)

Critic Reviews

Adventure Classic Gaming	DOS	Aug 11, 2008		100
Coming Soon Magazine	DOS	Feb, 1995	91 out of 100	91
Freak	DOS	Apr, 1995	87 out of 100	87
PC Joker	DOS	Jan, 1995	85 out of 100	85
All Game Guide	DOS	1998		80
Privat Computer PC	DOS	1995	4 out of 5	80
Secret Service / New S Service	DOS	May, 1995	240 out of 300	80
Power Unlimited	DOS	Feb, 1995	7.6 out of 10	76
Play Time	DOS	Jan, 1995	67 out of 100	67
High Score	DOS	Mar, 1995	3 out of 5	60

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Trivia

Extras

Packaged with the game was an exclusive short story set in the Death Gate universe, by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman.

Graphics

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.

Inspiration

Based on The Death Gate Cycle, a series of novels by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman.

Voice acting

Lead designer Glen Dahlgren provided the voice of Sang-Drax.

Information also contributed by Kamnari and Ye Old Infocomme Shoppe

Related Web Sites

• Death Gate (official website)