Sentences with phrase «graphical adventure game»

Sysiac Games latest project called «The Captain», is the lovechild of graphical adventure games like Monkey Island and Full Throttle, and also uses RPG and Strategy elements to craft a unique open world game play experience.

is the fifth entry in the Leisure Suit Larry series of graphical adventure games published by Sierra On - Line.

The formal experimentation of early graphical adventure games had by this point completely calcified.

For the adventure genre, the twin peaks of the early 1990s and the late 1990s saw the releases of many classic graphical adventure games such as the King's Quest and Monkey Island series as well as many survival horror adventure hybrids such as the Clock Towers, Fatal Frames, and Resident Evil (Biohazard) series.

During the heyday of graphical adventure games, from the tail end of the text adventure in the 80s through to late 90s, there were two major companies putting out adventure games: LucasArts, which focused on good characterization, entertaining stories, and careful design, and Sierra, which didn't.

But for years now, the conventional narrative has been that The Sims became the best - selling PC game of all time in 2002 after dethroning Myst, the graphical adventure game that sold more CD - ROM drives than every other piece of «multimedia» software combined.

If you've always been curious to try a graphical adventure game, Loom is a terrific place to start.

Twenty years ago this month, Lucasfilm games (now LucasArts) released a graphical adventure game like no other: Loom.

It was quite possibly the most ambitious game of its time, and you can see the roots of the modern open - world RPG in it as well as its influence on later strategy games and the development of the graphical adventure game.

The graphical adventure game has fallen from its former prominence among video games.

Maniac Mansion was a graphical adventure game, not rare for it's time period, but instead of a text parser, used a graphical interface where players made sentences by combining a verb menu with various objects onscreen.