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A different opinion

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 9 / 15
Date: January 10, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I love adventure computer games, but I had a very different reaction to this one than the other reviewers. First of all, there wasn't much "adventure" to this adventure - I thought the story was pretty slow. But most importantly, this game had the most obscure (and in my opinion) ridiculous puzzles I have encountered in an adventure game.

Also, I found the hero both annoying and unlikable. Among other things, he's supposed to be from New Orleans, and his accent is so bad that I found it distracting. In the game's initial movie, I could swear the character is British, but during the game sequences his accent is "Southern on steriods."

Suffice it to say this is the first adventure game I have ever purchased that I had no interest in finishing. Normally, I can't be dragged away from them.

Go figure.

What happened?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 9 / 19
Date: March 20, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I bought the GK2 and was blown away.Felt as if I knew the characters and cheered for them.In this I didn't like them at all. Snappy, sarcastic, horrendous voice jobs. I waited on this one but won't on the next. Slow moving, no mystery since the characters are not as developed. Will never buy a game again untill the price is reduced. WHAT Happened?

Waste of Money

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 17
Date: February 13, 2000
Author: Amazon User

As much as I loved GK2, The Beast within, as disappointed am I with GK3, Blood of the Sacred. Why on earth did Sierra go from real actors back to drawings only? Endlessly boring, bad graphics, and a "Schattenjaeger" Gabriel Knight who is simply appalling and shows none of the charming characteristics his "real" persona had in GK2. All there is left is some macho who looks like Barbie's Ken on even more steroids. Buy GK2 instead!

Baffled By Reviews

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 10 / 31
Date: September 01, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I purchased this game after having read the several positive rewiews others had written for "Gabriel Knight 3." I'm not sure if the majority of reviewers are fans of the books themselves and therefore are fans of the game. (And possibly, for those reviewers who have read the books, it may have given them information needed to determine character direction.) I found myself aimlessly searching for items, with no hint of an idea to what the goals were in order to complete one time slot, yes... the game is "leveled" in time slots, and begin another. Hours of aggrivating gameplay, searching over and over the same locations, musing on whom or what I had forgotten in order to progress. Well, after hours of prolonged irritation, I finally logged on to a GK3 walkthrough site and learned that I HAD already collected all the items required, and HAD already spoken or eavesdropped to all the characters needed. In fact there seems to be an order to which things must be done. (With absolutely no indication, during gameplay, as to what order that may be.) The walkthrough insisted I needed to return to a certain location to progress to the next level. Ironically this "location" is exactly where I had last saved the game. So, knowing this, I took an enjoyable walk around the same room for awhile, like I had several times before, when the game finally decided that I have had enough BS and loaded the next level. (A huge step, I had just completed the first time slot.)
Besides the aggrivating gameplay there are many more negative perks to look foreward too:
-Annoying main character. (He sounds like a southerner hopped up on a mixture of an aphrodisiac and crack.) If there were a way to kill him I would have.
-Annoying supporting characters.
-Horrible graphics. (Outdated.)
-Storyline? What storyline? (Didn't read the book.)
This game will take it's place, without being completed, among my other "worth while" games and collect dust.

Big disappointment after GK2

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: February 06, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game is beautifully rendered graphically but the content leaves much to be desired. The object of this type of video game or any other game is to be as entertaining as possible while presenting a stimulating challenge to the gamer. While this game is aimed at a mature audience the puzzle content is in many instances sophomoric, silly, and so obtuse as to be annoying. Kudos to the graphics department, a big boo to the puzzle and story people.

Disappointing

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 8
Date: November 28, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Honestly, as a GK fan I was expecting far more than this... THe first two games were great. Compared to the first two, GK III is slow and boring. It is also kind of self-serving--some of the things you have to do are random and there is no way to think of them by yourself. If you decide to get it, make sure you also find a good "hints and cheats" site.

Storyline stinks

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 13
Date: February 25, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I played the previous two Gabriel Knight games, and really liked them! I got this game for Christmas and was excited to play it. I was extremely disappointed! I was expecting vampires, I expected them to be on a similar level as the werewolves in GK2. You only see the vampires in the Gabriel's dreams, and a tiny bit at the end, and then you never get to confront them directly. I wanted "pound a wooden stake through their evil hearts and chop their heads off to keep them from coming back" vampires. I got, "drain their blood to somehow gain the attributes of the people the blood came from" vampires. Pretty lame, pretty boring. They made Jesus part of the story, but made Him an immortal man because of the stars that were aligned at His birth. This really disgusted me. I want vampires! This was such a farce! I would normally give this type of game away to friends after I am done (you know, recycling):) I will never do that with this game! I fact, I am thinking of just trashing it, so that it is not even in my house. Maybe I could pound a wooden stake through it, at least that way I could have the satisfaction of doing that once in this game! Besides the stupid storyline, the graphics were ok, thought they would be better. I also had some trouble with getting the game to play on my PC, even though my computer easily passed all the games requirements. Spend your hard-earned money elsewhere. Try King's Quest 8: Mask of Eternity, that was a lot of fun.

Spit on the Sacred, Hail to the Damned.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 19
Date: September 25, 2002
Author: Amazon User

As a longtime fan of the Gabriel Knight series, I was so looking forward to playing this game. In spite of the troubles I'd heard plagued the new 3d world, I was rarin' to go on a new adventure with Gabe and Grace. Imagine my disappointment, then, when I found almost no storytelling at all. The puzzles were nothing to write home about, either. And Tim Curry was sadly miscast as Gabe. Still, I was gonna tough it out, just to see what happened. Was I in for a shock! I spend all this time wading through a sea of mediocrity, only to have this game tell me that my God is dead, and my faith is a lie! Not wanting to take the chance that some other poor fool might possibly play my copy after I threw it away, I actually broke the CDs first. This game was one of the greatest letdowns I've experienced in 10 years of PC gaming.

The Game will not Run

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: December 24, 1999
Author: Amazon User

It may be an excellent adventure game, however I cannot get it to work. I have a P700, 16Mb 3D Video Board, 128Mb RAM, and it just locks when I run it! I tried to get help from Sierra's web site, but the game is so new there is nothing published. So, beware, the game may not work on your computer! You may want to give them a little more time to work out the bugs and publish some patches.

Low Tech - Bad Value

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: October 19, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I have always loved the Sierra Games, and have played most adventure games out there. Time has passed this game by. The interface is bad, parts of the character's bodies fade in and out as you move around. I have a very fast machine and the game sputters along at incredibly slow speeds. Compared to The Longest Journey and Syberia which both have fantastic graphics and very good interfaces (and even Grim Fandango - a great game with a very awkward interface), I would advise skipping GKIII. You will just be frustrated, I quit about 1/2 way through.

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