KQ8 for its part is an action-based adventure game with minor RPG elements. This mishmash of adventure and RPG elements works up to a point, though it has to be said that the engrossing adventure game struggles to make up for the so-so throwaway RPG elements. As you progress through the game your strength increases in proportion to the number of enemies you've nobbled, your intelligence increases as you cast spells, your dexterity increases as you continuously jump out of the way when confronted with a particularly troublesome enemy, and so on. QFG is basically an adventure game with RPG elements. If you're finding all this a little confusing, a more familiar point of reference will probably be Sierra's own Quest For Glory series. In fact, I've seen the gorgeous-looking 3Dfx version running and it looks even better than Zelda on the Nintendo 64. It's not entirely dissimilar to the Zelda games on Super Nintendo, except obviously in glorious 3D. Puzzle-solving is to 'get physical' with his environment by twonking things with the various weapons at his disposal in order to trigger events elsewhere. The new lead character (Connor) is a far more believable hero and his approach to The 'cutesy' element inherent in the series so far which has charmed some, and reduced others to lengthy puke-orama sessions, has more or less disappeared completely. Hence Sierra's complete change in approach to the latest episode in their long-running King's Quest series. In fact, top Sierra bod Ken Williams has publicly admitted that people don't want point-and-click adventures anymore, they want Tomb Raider, they want Quake, they want games in which you blow things up and where the most taxing puzzling element you'll come across is activating a switch by shooting at it with an enormous gun. Sierra are very quick to acknowledge this. The traditional point-and-click puzzler has been knocked sideways with the arrival of 3D classics like Tomb Raider and, er, the forthcoming Tomb Raider 2 (cough). Adventure Games As We Used To Know them have all but disappeared without trace.
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