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Ankh 3: Special Edition
Ankh 3: Special Edition
Last updated on September 2, 2008 - 08:07.
Popular German adventure game Ankh: Battle of the Gods gets a special edition. The box includes exclusive trading cards, a poster, lots of artworks and wallpapers and the official soundtrack of the game. The extended edition will cost 20 €.
Ankh: Battle of the Gods is the third part of the succesful adventure series Ankh made by Frankfurt based developer Deck 13. It's a classical point 'n Click adventure with funny dialogues and curious characters.
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Last updated on September 2, 2008 - 08:07
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This game is popular? ... I can't believe it ....
Well, in Germany it is quite popular. The game won prices, got good rankings and when the (small) developer got the money to produce a third episode the game was no financial flop.
Never played any of these, but I do know that adventures are very popular in Germany.
I played the first two installments of the series and bought the very special edition this article is about, because I really like the Ankh games; as well as in general all games from Deck13 (like Jack Keane). The games are really not popular elsewhere, during my time in GB I read some reviews with shockingly low ratings. But I can understand that it's popular in Germany, because the story is fun (and the jokes are really funny most of the time - if anyone played the second Ankh game and stumbled upon the talking burning bush in the desert they will most probably agree), the riddles are not too illogical but also far from being too easy to solve and the developers are not ashamed to make fun of themselves and the mistakes they made in earlier games (for example, the first Ankh was very short, which is why in the second Ankh you see the credits after only one hour of gameplay when all of a sudden the protagonist interrupts them and says: "No, not again. Remember? We wanted to make the game last longer this time, didn't we?"
That's a very interesting point. Do you know something about the game's localization? The narrative part is the most important in an adventure so if Ankh wasn't translated well the whole expreience became worse.
No, I don't know anything about that. But I know that the design of the puzzles was very much criticized which I cannot understand. Most of the puzzles in the Ankh series as well as in Jack Keane are really great and, most of the time, fair. I've seen far worse adventures in my life.
Still Jack Keane only got 51% from PC Gamer, which is just hilarious.
But well, german games are not really well rated in the UK generally. Do you want to know how Spellforce 2 was rated? Really? Don't say I didn't warn you: it's 51% as well.
Maybe it's some kind of revenge for the bad (or not so good) rankings of Lionhead's games (Black + White for example) in German magazines. ;)
Maybe it's just another culture, Brits are really weird sometimes :)
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