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The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight Mystery | List Price: $29.99
Discount Price: $119.95
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Platform: Windows 95, Windows 98
Brand: Sierra
Binding: CD-ROM
ESRB Age Rating: Mature
Features: - The Beast Within is a direct sequel to Sins of the Fathers, the first in the supernatural mystery adventure series
- The Beast Within utilizes a cast of live actors and full-motion video technology: the actors are filmed over photorealistic images
- The Beast Within is a full-fledged adventure game, with a lot of dialogues, detective work to do, and puzzles to solve
- Unlike the first game, The Beast Within is entirely point-and-click: all the icons were replaced by a single cursor
One of the best from the Golden Age of adventure games [Posted on 2005-04-03]
This really is one of the very best computer games ever made -- gripping, funny, scary, heart-pounding, challenging without being impossible, and compelling. If only they made them like this all the time!
Writing and acting are both first-rate, A-movie level. Graphics are utterly believable -- whatever isn't live action or photographic is beautifully done. Interface is intuitive and requires little or no time to learn. The puzzles are seamlessly integrated into the story; no sudden chess problems because hey, we have to have a puzzle and we don't know what else to do. The story is definitely Mature, partly because there's sexuality, butchery, and monsters, and partly because the storyline deals with complicated adults doing complicated things. Watch especially for a subtle undertone of homoeroticism. Sizzling!
One caveat, however. This game won't play easily under anything more recent than Win 98, and it would really prefer Win 95 or DOS (hah! as if). You can wriggle around to make it play on a more advanced machine, but it's not easy and the game crashes often. If you have an older machine, however, this game's for you.
Nope. Not for me. [Posted on 2005-04-18]
Just didn't like the genre. Fairly good adventure game but certainly not the best. So-so for me.
Download patch to play on Windows XP [Posted on 2005-07-26]
I just recently was able to play this game for the first time since I bought it back in the early 90's. Fortunately, I was able to find a program created by this gamer over in Italy, of all places, who has spent his free time creating patches for this particular game. There are 2 programs - one that just allows you to play the game on later Windows platforms (since the game came out before Windows 95 was even around) & one program that also allows you to save all 6 discs on your hard drive (rather than putting each in to play & can make the game run slowly) or to create one dvd for the whole game. There is also a download to make the first game, Sins of the Fathers, playable as well.
It was an extremely easy download & I was able to play the whole game through with no flaws or errors with Windows XP. I was so happy, because I love the Gabriel Knight series. All these years later I had just as much fun playing as the first time.
So, if you have either of the 2 older games, or are considering buying them, the website with the downloads can be found at http://www.vogons.zetafleet.com/gkpatches/ (found info on a message board at http://forums.adventuregamers.com/showthread.php?t=5590&page=5&pp=20).This way you can enjoy the games for many years to come. I think Beast Within holds up particularly well after all these years.
A rare scare for gamers [Posted on 2006-04-20]
This was an interesting mystery game that proceed to get more and more creepy as I went along..They just don't make game stories like this anymore, where you actually feel like you are a part of the story as opposed to having some story shoved down your throat...I miss the integrity the Gabriel Knight mysteries used to provide, in fact I just plain miss old school adventure gaming in general...
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