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Issue 18 - March 11, 1999
 
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Blatant Plug

Dear Future Gamer

Top magazine, cyberzine, e-mag, whatever you want to call it. Let’s have more pictures and GBColor coverage. Enough praise for now though, I would like to share what is, in my opinion, the best adventure game ever, with your readers.

The game in question is Little Big Adventure. It may look rubbish compared to the latest PS or N64 walk-'em-up, but let me tell you my friends, this game has SOUL. It was released at a time when games weren't about whose graphics engine could shift the most polygons, whose heroine had the biggest jugs, or who could release the most sequels in a year.

The game's programmers weren't afraid to add some surreal ingredients to the mix, such as giving Twinsen, the eggheaded desperado, the ability to tiptoe or duck to hide from killer elephants, or enabling the player to steal a pirate flag from a museum using only a jetpack which held the player about two inches from the ground.

In places the game does have the tendency to annoy but you will find yourself being drawn into the strange and colourful world, and totally unable to escape. Some people will find the game too wacky and French but all serious adventure gamers should check out this superb game.

Anon


FG: I don’t really think this is a blatant plug from the game’s programmers, but it sure sounds like it. Don’t do it again.

Got an opinion or a question? Write to me at andy.smith@futurenet.co.uk...

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