Lure of the Temptress (DOS)

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Description

The medieval town of Turnvale has fallen into the hands of the evil sorceress Selena. She is controlling an army of an orc-like warrior race skorl, who serve her with devotion. The skorl hate humans and have terrorized the town and the nearby land. Diermot is an ordinary fellow who was captured by the skorl and thrown into prison. His first task will be to escape. After gaining his freedom, Diermot will also have to find out how to liberate his entire homeland from the clutches of the villains.

This adventure game utilizes a special system called Virtual Theater. Non-playable characters will walk around and perform different actions regardless of the player's interaction with them. There is a variety of options and commands, including the possibility of interaction with a supporting character, whom the player can give orders in order to solve some of the game's puzzles.

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Part of the Following Groups

• Game Engine: Virtual Theatre
• Games with manual lookup copy protection

User Reviews

Greetings, stranger. What is your name?	Katakis | カタキス (39491)
It can't get any worse than this.	MAT (188240)

Critic Reviews

Joystick (French)	Sep, 1992	91 out of 100	91
Génération 4	Sep, 1992	90 out of 100	90
Freegame.cz	Oct 18, 2005	87 out of 100	87
ASM (Aktueller Software Markt)	Oct, 1992	10 out of 12	83
Play Time	1992		80
FreeHry.cz	Aug 02, 2007	80 out of 100	80
The DOS Spirit	Nov 14, 2005	4 out of 6	67
Adventure Classic Gaming	Jun 23, 2011		60
The Freehare	2006		60
Computer Gaming World (CGW)	Mar, 1993	Unscored	Unscored

Forums

Topic	# Posts	Last Post
GOG download - no sound	5	Jeanne (76515) May 24, 2011

Trivia

Bugs

There is a bug in the game which prevents you from completing it. To fix this, you have to choose the 'Restart Game' option, as soon as the game begins. If you don't do this, then at least one vital item (the tinderbox) will not appear.

Freeware

On April 1st, 2003 Revolution Software has released Lure of the Temptress as freeware. You can download the game on Revolution's website.

Title

There was no temptress in the game until very late in production. When the team had to decide on a name for the game Lure of the Temptress was jokingly brought up. The publishers liked the name, so they decided to rewrite the story to include a temptress.

Unique features

With their debut Lure of the Temptress, Revolution Software introduced several unique features to graphic adventure games. The most notable ones are the “Virtual Theatre” system, meaning that all characters in the game have a fixed daily schedule and wander around the world; and the technique called “Auto Routing”, which avoids collisions with obstacles automatically, so that the player doesn’t need to maneuver his protagonist around rocks etc.

Awards

• ST Format
  • January 1993 (issue #42) - #22 in '50 finest Atari ST games of all time' list

Trivia also contributed by hydra9 and vedder.

Related Web Sites

• Lure of the Temptress (official website)
• Lure of the Temptress (Revolution's page with free downloads of the full PC game in French, German and English.)
• Revolution Fans (Fan site for all of Revolution's games.)
• ScummVM (Supports Lure of the Temptress under Windows, Linux, Macintosh and other platforms.)
• Walkthrough for Lure of the Temptress (Full solution posted on Revolution's web site)