An interesting effort, though it's so short that it feels more like an introduction to a game than a game in its own right. You're a high-ranking authority in a nameless religion, scheming for more power and avoiding plots to bump you off. It's not very interactive--the game without warning periodically launches into what amount to long cut-scenes, in which your character does lots of things that you can't control--but the story is nicely put together. The opening scene is hilarious, moreover--it features a sermon made up of randomly generated banalities--and that in itself makes this worth downloading.

Rating: ****

Reviewed by Duncan Stevens (24 Aug 2000)

jacks.z5 (85.00 KB)

Z-code 5 executable (version: Release 1)

jackwalk.txt (1.03 KB)

Walkthrough