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The Longest Journey (PC-CD) - Rare Adventure Game
The game is good condition. The 2 game discs and casing as shown in the picture are all included. The is a rare point and click adventure game in the vein of broken sword. The script and voice acting is top notch. Please contact me should you require any information or additional images.
Product Description
This game is an epic futuristic tale of adventure, magic and intrigue. Now, an age of great turmoil and chaos threatens to tip the scales and bring terrifying dreams to life.
Before embarking on The Longest Journey, check your preconceived notions of reality at the door. While this may play like a traditional adventure game, the story is anything but conventional. As art student April Ryan you'll soon discover you have the ability to bridge two worlds--the 23rd-century, science-oriented Earth that you live in, and its counterpart, Arcadia, where magic is reality and technology is the stuff of legends. Telling you more than that would spoil the story, but suffice it to say that your ability to cross between the two worlds must be used to save both.
The game spans four CDs and needs all that space to hold both the gorgeous graphics and hours of high-quality speech. Everyone you meet has plenty to say, and you'll want to listen to everything because the game contains some of the most brilliant voice acting ever recorded. Each character has such a distinct and engaging voice that you could play this game with your eyes closed and it would maintain much of its beauty, although you likely won't want to blink after your first glimpse of the game's detailed environments. The graphics run at a feeble maximum resolution of 640 x 480 but are packed with enough atmosphere and animation that they look great even on a large monitor.
The Longest Journey obviously excels from a technical standpoint, but it's the writing that really makes it memorable. April maintains a diary that can be read to give players further insight into the game's strange events, and into April's mind as well. Lengthy conversations that seem tedious at first later serve to really make you care about the game's characters. They become more than simply people who exist to dispense items or tell you where to go next, and it's fascinating to watch April develop as she slowly absorbs the gravity of the situation into which she's been thrust. This game may seem like the longest--and most boring--journey at the beginning, but after a few hours adventure fans and anyone else who likes a good story will probably wish it would never end. (Note to readers: this game has an ESRB rating of Mature, and contains a lot of adult language.)
Pros:
* Outstanding production values
* Terrific writing
* Should run well on practically any computer
Originally released in Europe, The Longest Journey has earned international accolades as one of the best adventure games ever made. You play as April, an 18-year old art student who can travel between the twin worlds of Stark and Arcadia, shifting between realities as if stepping through a doorway. Save the balance among the worlds, between order and chaos, science and magic. Along the way, you will discover more than 100 unique locations and encounter more than 50 characters. In this point-and-click adventure game, you will be asked to solve a variety of story-related puzzles. Each scene is displayed using more than 16 million colors, and the characters are rendered in real time and consist of more than 1000 polygons each.
