The glorious days of adventure games are long over, but the genre still is far from dead. Sometimes even new ideas are coming up. One of them is eXperience112 by French publisher Lexis Numérique. In this mystery adventure, you're not controlling the female hero, but a guy who's sitting at the surveillance and door controls of a stranded hightech ship. The hero is Lea Nichols, sole survivor of a science team. Together, player and heroine explore the ship, you doing the strategic thinking and she the actual work. You can have several windows open on your screen, showing different cameras' views or a schematic map. Lea's position is shown as an arrow on the map, although she's talking to you, she can't hear you. Instead, you communicate by opening doors or turning the lights on in a room you want Lea to visit.

The game reminds us a tiny bit of the Infocom classic Suspended, where the player had to solve the game in a given timeframe (number of turns) by commanding six robots from a control room, text-only, of course. (Hell, that was a hard game!)

You can get the English demo of eXperience112 here (direct link), the official website is www.experience112-game.de (English, French, German, Dutch). A little piece of advice for using the demo: As soon as you can after the intro movie and the "ingame intro", go to the options menu and change the screen resolution to your liking. The reason for this is, the game needs a restart to change the resolution, but you can't save in the demo...