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Amazon Queen

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Flight Of The Amazon Queen takes place in the 1940’s and is the story about Joe King, pilot for hire. His latest job is to take a famous actress to her photo shoot but on route manages to crash land his plane in the middle of the Amazon. This triggers a massive adventure filled with phantom primates, 6ft tall pygmies, Amazon woman, dinosaurs and a whole lot more weirdness. As you can see in the tradition of the best B-movies this game doesn’t take itself too seriously. After playing this game for a while it becomes very clear that classic Lucasarts titles like Monkey Island and Indiana Jones had a big influence on it. Even the interface is reminiscent of early SCUMM engine games with your selection of actions and inventory along the bottom of the screen.This looks a bit dated compared to recent titles which uses the entire screen to display the graphics. Speaking of which the graphics in Amazon Queen isn’t too bad and there are plenty of varied locations to explore. The game starts out with Joe trapped in a hotel rooms with some goons guarding the exit and right of the bat you’ll …show more content…

There are loads of characters to talk to and most of them have something funny to say. One of the great things about this game is the fact that you cannot die nor do something wrong which allows you to explore and try out everything without fear of wasting something or getting stuck in a dead end. None of the puzzles are overly obscure either and while there are none that really stand out as impressive I was stumped a few times. The game definitely features some of the strangest things you’ll ever see in a game characters inventory. Towards the end the game becomes very Indiana Jones-ish with Joe exploring an ancient trap filled temple. This reminded me strongly of Indies’ adventures in Atlantis. Other locations like the valley of the dinosaurs show a bit more

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