By Sean Tudor on Thursday, July 5, 2001 - 11:50 pm:
I have not seen a single review on this title yet. Were any review copies sent out ?
By Steve on Friday, July 6, 2001 - 01:21 am:
Not yet.
By gregbemis on Friday, July 6, 2001 - 04:16 pm:
We called Eidos to get our review copies of the game and were told that they don't have any in yet, so my show host and I took a short trip to the software store and pick up a couple because we were truly interested in how this puppy turned out.
I'm only about 5 hours in but I'm quite surprised. It's simple, fun, engaging, and rather humorous. A console style RPG on the PC but without much of the things that make console RPGs to tedious. No random battle, fewer battle in general, a choice to use save point or a save anywhere scheme, etc.
Graphics are dated, but the animation and lip-synch is pretty good. That's about all I can think of off the top of my head.
By Aszurom on Saturday, July 7, 2001 - 02:24 pm:
Can I borrow your sock?
By gregbemis on Saturday, July 7, 2001 - 05:38 pm:
Sure, but only if you promise not to chew on it.
By Jason McCullough on Monday, September 24, 2001 - 01:16 am:
'Graphics are dated, but the animation and lip-synch is pretty good. That's about all I can think of off the top of my head.'
I'm just now getting around to playing it after Diablo 2 burnout, and the graphics, excepting the oddly-stylized-to-get-around-the-Q2-engine character models, are absolutely gorgeous. There's actual B-grade cinematography in the intro, too, which is a novelty to me in computer gaming. The freeze frame of Boots being thrown out of the window is really cool.
By Anonymous on Monday, September 24, 2001 - 11:01 am:
Gamespot has a review.
By John T. on Monday, September 24, 2001 - 11:20 am:
Anachronox is a lot of fun so far. Funny, too. Only 6 hours or so into it so far. Combat is not the most refined part of the game.
By Spigot on Tuesday, October 2, 2001 - 07:35 pm:
It took me about 40 hours to beat, but Anachronox was great. Some of the environments were absolutely beautiful, esp. given that it uses a Quake 2 engine.
Great humour, storyline and beyond a few little glitches, a rock-solid game.
By Mark Asher on Wednesday, October 3, 2001 - 04:53 am:
Jeff Green's latest Greenspeak column is about this game. It's in the CGW with the Worlds of Warcraft game on the cover.
By Jason McCullough on Wednesday, October 3, 2001 - 04:30 pm:
I've almost finished it, and it's one of the better games I've ever played. The writing is almost PS:T quality. The boring, too-easy combat should have been completely eliminated in favor of more puzzles and adventure-gaming type things, though.
The camerawork is what I'm most impressed with. I never tired of silly things like watching the characters ride elevators, as every one of them had an interesting pan across the game world. Game narrative, thy friend is a director.