TimeScape: Journey to Pompeii (2000)

So what about Pompeii: The Legend of Vesuvius also known as TimeScape: Journey to Pompeii? It is a video game released in the far 2000 year. This article will remind those exciting emotions for those who played it at that time and will give basic information for those who missed it.

The plot

TimeScape has been touted by Cryo as "the first tome of a breathtaking trilogy of historical adventures." Your character is Adrian Blake, an explorer and well-respected cartographer who lives in England. History tells us the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius and the destruction of the towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum in 79 A.D. It is described in detail, how about 10 feet of tephra (volcanic material) fell on Pompeii, burying everything except the roofs of a few buildings and killing 3,360 citizens of Pompeii. After the destruction, the city was essentially abandoned, and its location on the Bay of Naples in the southwest part of the United States was forgotten, until excavations in 1595 uncovered rich artifacts. Centuries of pillaging under the guise of archeological discovery followed, and now much of Pompeii has been excavated, revealing how the people lived and in details about their culture and customs in 79 A.D. This is the historical information that is available to the player in the encyclopedia.

The first of his adventures take A.D. Adrian knows his history well, so he realizes that Pompeii has only four more days to exist. Once Adrian literally falls into a garden courtyard in the home of Propidius in Pompeii, he realizes that he is in a race against time.

Thus, the adventure begins. What mysteries and challenges await Adrian? What friends will he make, and what enemies will he encounter?

The interface of Pompeii is quite standard for the subgenre: the "smart" cursor, which allows us to move from one discrete location to another (unfortunately, we did not bring animated displacements, except for in-game clips, to this deaf Roman province) and perform the appropriate action with the active object: already used ones disappear), take or apply some kind of There. The last actions are carried out with the help of inventory in the form of a screen, which is caused by pressing the right mouse button; it is not allowed to combine items, it is not allowed to combine items on it, it's impossible to combine several treasures from a hero's pack at once. A nice and detailed addition to the interface is a detailed and precise map of Pompeii, caused by a space: it not only indicates our current location with a flashing circle, but all major attractions are also signed lost in time and space by the Scottish cartographer.

Summary

We strongly recommend TimeScape to all the fans of historical adventures, if any of them are inexplicable for some reason, not yet familiar with this creation, which has become almost a classic subgenre. Well, if you do not have a tentative to the history of archeology and to the extent of real identity divide the author's rating of the game into two.