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│ Day of the Tentacle is quite a
┌─┐ ┌───┐ │ leap forward for adventure games.
┌─┘ │┌───┐┌─┬─┐ ┌───┐│ ─┬┘ │ The quality of the graphics
│ ─ │├─_ ││ │ │ ─ ││ ┌┘ │ combined with the superb
└───┘└───┘├── │ │└───┘└─┘ │ digitised sounds (including
└───┘├ ├┐┌┐ │ speech) make for a thoroughly
│ ││├┘ │ enjoyable game. For the hard disk
└┘└└└┘ │ installable version, the intro,
│ which takes about 15 minutes,
▀▀█▀▀ █▀▀▀ █ █ ▀▀█▀▀ ▄█ ▄▀▀▄ █ █▀▀▀│ lets our heroes Bernard, Laverne
▐▌ ▐▌ ▐█▌▐▌ ▐▌ █ █ ▐▌ ▐▌ ▐▌ │ and Hoagie introduce themselves.
█ █▀▀▀ █ ██ █ █▄▄█ █ █ █▀▀▀ │
▐▌ ▐█▄▄ ▐▌ ▐▌ ▐▌ █ █ ▀▄▄▀▐█▄▄▐█▄▄ │ This is the only section of
│ the game that has the nice
By: Lucasarts Games │ digitised speech. If you want
│ speech for the entire game, you'd
ß√ ±επ ≥∞Φ≤τ │ best run out and buy the CD-ROM
│ version. It seems that storing
Press σ¢ σ£ σ¥ for a look at the game. │ speech is quite expensive in
This is a sample review, every edition │ terms of disk space (the hard
will contain a number of game reviews.
disk version needs just over 15 │ tentacle, thus enabling him to
Meg of hard disk space). │ use his evil mutant powers and
│ enslave all humanity - to quote
A brief synopsis of the plot is │ Dr. Fred. This is where the intro
as follows: │ leaves off and we begin the game.
│
Our heroes venture to 'The │ Your job is to follow up on
Mansion' to rescue Purple and │ some clues provided by Dr. Fred
Green tentacles (that's their │ and stop Purple tentacle from
names - really!) from certain │ taking over the world.
death at the hands of the │
diabolical Dr. Fred, an evil │ The game is packed with
genius. Unfortunately, it turns │ puzzles you must negotiate in
out the evil genius is actaully │ order to put a stop Purple
Purple tentacle. We find this out │ tentacles reign of terror. On
in the intro, but our digital │ successful completion of many of
personas Bernard, Laverne and │ the larger puzzles, you are
Hoagie are not quite so bright. │ rewarded with cute animated
│ sequences showing you the
Bernard releases purple │ consequences of your actions.
│
At times the game is a little │
frustrating, as some of the │
puzzles are not as intuitive as │
others, but a little persistence │
pays of in the end. │
│
In all, Day of the Tentacle │
was quite enjoyable and worth the │
money you pay for it ñ │