Simon The Sorceror (PC)

Adventure games are dead. Or so people keep telling me. "Nobody wants to play those things anymore – we've got Quake 3 now". Hmmm. Thankfully, these sorts of people are invariably proved wrong, and you can see plenty of good adventure games around these days in the form of Escape From Monkey Island, Grim Fandango and a few others. But I still love the old ones, lots of puzzles, simple graphics and a large slice of comedy. Ah – those were the days! Simon The Sorcerer is what the games industry refers to as a 'point and click adventure game'. This is exactly how it sounds – all the game operations are performed by moving the ...  Read the complete review

Imagine your predicament, you are just minding your own business on a typical boring day when suddenly your dog runs up into the attic and starts barking wildly. Barking dogs are annoying so you decide to go and give the mutt a piece of your mind, not really interested in what all the fuss is about but getting a splitting headache from all the racket! Image then your surprise when you find the reason for the rumpus is that there is an old chest in the attic which just happens to be dancing about the place in the way that inanimate object aren?t really meant to do - and you haven?t been smoking anything strange that day either since your mummy confiscated his pocket money ...  Read the complete review

I loved this game What is it? An adventure game with several hours of play. Simon a young boy, gets sucked into another world when Calypso the wizard is captured and needs help. You solve various puzzles to help beat the evil Zordid who has captured the wizard. But to do this, Simon must first become a wizard himself. Graphics I have seen worse, but I've also seen better. There's quite a lot of detail in the backgrounds with lots of creatures flitting about. It's quite colourful but not too overpowering as some games can be. Simon and the various other characters you bump into on the way move quite smoothly too. Characters ...  Read the complete review

I myself purchased this game after playing its sequel. The second game had enthralled me and I was eager to see its pre-decessor. Despite being inferior to Simon 2, this is still a hugely entertaining game. The humour is pure and totally original, and the plot is intriguing, if not a bit peculiar. Simon (or rather his dog) has found a peculiar chest in his attic, which transports him to another world, where he is mistaken for a sorceror. The teenager is given the task of saving the world from the evil Sordid, a diabolical sorceror bent on world domination. Despite this however, Simon, as well as his many accompanying characters, manage to slip in a long string ...  Read the complete review