Thursday, March 11, 2004
PDACorps Review Gilbert Goodmate Game
Posted by Jonathon Watkins in "SOFTWARE" @ 01:00 AM
"The PDA point-and-click adventure market is not exactly swamped with products. In fact, it’s more like a desert. Consequently, the smallest puddle of shimmering water will seem like a lush oasis complete with a 5-star hotel complex and an Olympic size swimming pool populated with Baywatch lifeguards. For those of you who stayed at Hotel ‘Fade’ last year but found it a bit serious and intense, I can recommend a visit to the ‘Gilbert Goodmate’ Hotel, where a much funnier stay is promised." Thus begins the PDACorps review of 'Gilbert Goodmate'.
It's a decent length review (with plenty of pictures) and really give you an insight as to whether this games is for you. Overall it seems to be a mixed bag. "My only major issue with getting the game to work was that I had to borrow a 512mb compact flash card from Ben in order to install it. Sure, you could conceivably install most of it on a 128mb card, but then you would have hardly any room left for anything else. You need a 256mb card to do a full install of everything. The music and speech components can be optionally installed, so you can get away with just installing the basic game with its default music and a few sound effects if you are short of space. The big deal with this is that if you only see yourself as ever playing this on the toilet in work you won’t need to download the monstrous sound files – the full speech pack is a whopping 79.5mb download!" Playing PDA games in the toilet is a beautiful image 8O – please let me flush it from my mind! :lol:
So – if adventure games are your thing – be sure to see what they are saying about Gilbert Goodmate.
It's a decent length review (with plenty of pictures) and really give you an insight as to whether this games is for you. Overall it seems to be a mixed bag. "My only major issue with getting the game to work was that I had to borrow a 512mb compact flash card from Ben in order to install it. Sure, you could conceivably install most of it on a 128mb card, but then you would have hardly any room left for anything else. You need a 256mb card to do a full install of everything. The music and speech components can be optionally installed, so you can get away with just installing the basic game with its default music and a few sound effects if you are short of space. The big deal with this is that if you only see yourself as ever playing this on the toilet in work you won’t need to download the monstrous sound files – the full speech pack is a whopping 79.5mb download!" Playing PDA games in the toilet is a beautiful image 8O – please let me flush it from my mind! :lol:
So – if adventure games are your thing – be sure to see what they are saying about Gilbert Goodmate.
