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The Colonel's Bequest is
somewhat of a departure from regular Sierra adventures, it is a bit of a
murder mystery in which you play a very important part. You star as Laura
Bow, a student of Tulane university in New Orleans, who has been asked by
her friend to join her in her mansion. During dinner Henri Dijon, the colonel,
reveals that he will share his fortune with everyone present except for
Laura. The people start to fight about who will get the biggest share and
soon people start turning up dead and you will have to figure out who's
the killer.
The game begins right after the intro and you are in your room where you
are staying the night. Progress is split up in eight acts covering an hour
each, each hour is split into 15 minute segments in which you get to explore
the mansion and find clues to what is going on. This can be objects but
more often you will have to listen in on conversations as most of the people
aren't willing to talk with you a lot. While snooping in you will find out
a lot about the relationships the people in the house have and wether or
not they are good or bad. Once you discover certain clues the clock will
advance to the next segment. Very often you will find the bodies of people
lying around and you sometimes get the feeling you might be the next victim
as well. Even if the killer doesn't get you there are other dangers around
like crocodiles and apparently Laura can't swim well either as you drown
when you fall into the water.
Laura Bow is probably one of the lesser known adventure games from Sierra
though there was a sequel made so it did have some following. The interface
is your standard Sierra affair where you can walk around but have to type
in actions. The graphics though only EGA are quire good and are more realisticly
drawn than the less serious adventures. There no points system like most
Sierra games but there is replay value because you can revisit the game
after you get some clues as to what events you mist the first time. All
in all a great addition to any adventure gamers collection.
Overal rating: 8/10
Erde Kaiser
Colonel's bequest, the was released for several different systems here are some notes:
| Amiga |
Released
in 1990.
There are some loading times but not nearly as bad as some Sierra
games. |
| Atari
ST |
Released
in 1990.
Virtually identical tot the Amiga version. |
| DOS |
Released
in 1989.
The original but with really lame pc speaker sound |
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Date added |
Jul-24-2009 09:13 |
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Colonel's bequest, the |
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Developer |
Sierra on-line
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Publisher |
Sierra on-line
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First released |
1989 |
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Genre |
Adventure
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Download |
Atari ST, filesize: 2530 Kb
Commodore Amiga, filesize: 3745 Kb
MS-DOS, filesize: 3042 Kb
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Manual |
No manual available
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Solve / Docs |
Get solve here
No extra docs available |
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