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The Mage Wars: Statue

Alternate Titles:Statue
Author:Jim Fisher
Genre:Science Fiction
Released:2003
Review:

As with other IntroComp entries, this is the beginning of a longer game--but this one is unusually substantial and fleshed-out as IntroComp entries go. Depressed after the death of his wife, a man has himself cryogenically frozen in 1997, and he wakes up roughly 8000 years later in the middle of a brewing war among evil archmages. Divided into several chapters; you play different characters in the various chapters. Mostly told in the past tense, third person. Very linear, and hardly any puzzles, but overall a solid entry.

Rating: ****

Reviewed by Duncan Stevens (26 May 2003)

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Awards:
Winner, IntroComp 2003
Downloads:
introcomp03.zip (400.42 KB)
Z-code 5 executable (version: 100)


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