Review: Titanic: Adventure Out of Time

[Gary Oswald]

Discuss this article by @M_Kresal here

 

[Coiler]

The note about the plausibility (or lack thereof) of the endings leads me to why I'm more sympathetic for bad plots in video games than in other media: Because they have to justify the gameplay.

 

[Thande]

This one sounds really interesting - belongs to that period in the mid-90s when people put a lot of effort into productions like this. Interesting it had no connection with the James Cameron film. I always think of Douglas Adams 'Starship Titanic' which I think came out at the same time (or a remake of it? - I remember seeing it on the shelves).

 

[FriendlyGhost]

Coincidentally, the BBC just published this article – The book that sank on the Titanic and burned in the Blitz – about the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. The true story is, of course, somewhat different from the story in the game, but as Coiler noted above, gameplay usually trumps reality or the game just won't work.

 

[Charles EP M.]

That sounds like an amazing amount of effort for the time period, bloody hell.

as the video above attests, all but one of the outcomes leads to generally darker alternatives

And that is an amazingly bleak way of doing a time-travel story, "almost everything you do will make things far worse, not even just different, it'll be real shit"

 

[Fenwick]

I had Dust: The Wired West and soon picked this up. Really liked it.

In the same idea of things but... just a tad different is Last Express. Which has a nice backstory to it in being one of the worst selling games ever. I somehow bought a copy and played the shit out of it.

 

[Ogrebear]

I have this game, but all I find myself doing is wandering the Titanic rather than playing it.