Ah, I think I've played that one too!

It is a great game, the interiors and Rome in the game was designed by academics from France, who thoroughly know their Roman history and culture and you can take a tour and learn about daily life items, advents, holidays, important people and you get to meet Brutus, Octavian, and even Cleopatra...and the voice acting is professional grade, ie Shakespearean actors..that type, so even tho it is old, in terms of graphics and the people look blocky, it is a remarkable tour de force and a must for any serious student of Roman or classical history. The trick to running it on XP or more recent is to reduce the sound speed via DxDiag, i use the second notch from the left and it works perfectly.

In this scene at the start of the game you can hear the birds in the garden outside, the sounds of the city, the sound of the fountain, and the detail of the teserae pavement, wall paintings and the interior furnishings are totally accurate from the period of just after Caesar's death, and the lighting is even well done with depth of shadows, reflections in the water and a nice italian luminescence to the scenes. You can visit many locations in Rome including wine shops, shops, the forum, temples and also locaitons in the country and even the harbour at Ostia.  Many of the furnishings of the houses and public areas were designed from actual relics and antiquities in the Louvre and other collections, including some found at Pompeii and Heraculum. It is a historians and an archaeologists delight.

A note about the pavements, and the tesarae, which were tiny squares of ceramic, stone, or other materials that were used to make patterns, and scenes. It was a high art of the epoch, and took highly skilled craftsmen to complete, some large rooms might take a year or more to do, and many have been uncovered from thorughout the Roman Empire....remarkable features of that culture.

Thanks for the tip about running it on modern OSes CrisGer, I had real trouble getting it to run on WinXP SP3.

Next, rather heavily cropped

Culpa Innata from her office?

Yes

I thought I was being sneaky, posting a screen from Culpa Innata so soon after Lady Kestrel did too, but you proved yourself too smart for me .

You were very sneaky, i only got lucky because i had bought the full version of that game fairly recently and i did recall that view well.

Here is my offering, another fine game with lots of adventuring in it

Anachronox?

wow, again an almost instant hit!  Yep, you are right on Fnord Sir, that is a very cool area that we get to see Grampus use some of his special talents.   love that game.

It was a rather memorable game as a whole. Shame it did not sell better.

Here is a game with horrible graphics, that still manages to be quite funny.

Is that Ben There, Dan That, Fnord?

Yep, that is correct!

Next:

The game above is 10 years old and the screenshot is a bit deceiving.  If no one gets it by this evening, I'll post another screenshot.

Not Amber is it?  prob not, as i recall Amber is older

No, it's not a spooky game at all, Cris.

It looks like a Microids game so I'd have to guess Road to India: Between Hell and Nirvana.  

You got it, CB!  

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Barrow Hill

My Basement.... (just kidding  )

Originally Posted By tincup2

Barrow Hill

Barrow Hill

I need to figure out how to post screen shots...

if you have pics archived somewhere, I use Image Shack, which is free, just get the address from the picture, and then click on the little tree icon above the posting window and put in the ISP address. The picture should appear immediately.

ok - but if I don't post anything pronto jump right in.

This one's just for fun:  

You can upload pics straight from your hard drive with the new site software, so you don't need to go via Image Shack or Photobucket or whatever.