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Gabriel Knight 2: One of my top games ever!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 05, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Just a quick word on the Gabriel Knight Series. Although its been a few years since i last played GK2, i can honestly say it has been my favorite adventure game of all time. I literally had dreams about it for a week. Great plot and great European setting. Also look into Siberia and Siberia II.

The best you can get

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: October 16, 2006
Author: Amazon User

These games are amazing. It's so enjoyable getting to know these characters and solving the mysteries with them. The storylines are brilliant, full of factual history and what makes the games so enjoyable are the characters and the humor, especially Gabriel. These are old games, so don't go expecting 2006 type graphics.

You can run both games on Windows XP. Go to the following site to download the relevant patches. These games will work 100% with no freezing whatsoever:

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Gabriel Knight 1 will work on XP

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 14 / 14
Date: January 17, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Gabriel Knight 1 runs under DOS, and will play under XP if you run it under DOSBox, (http://dosbox.sourceforge.net), an open-source DOS emulator. I've tried it and it works, with sound and everything. You need to press Ctrl-F12 a couple of times to increase the speed though. One reviewer mentioned something about having to set the display 256 colors in XP... this is not necessary as Gabriel is not a Windows program.

Overall, Gabriel Knight 1 is a great game, and it really immerses you into the New Orleans milieu. This game made me want to visit New Orleans, even though I live in Montreal, and it's far more French here than in any other city in North America.

doesn't work for windows xp

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 8 / 12
Date: June 17, 2003
Author: Amazon User

The Gabriel knight I game will not install into windows xp because you can't make 256 color, but the gabriel kight II game will so if you want to buy it for only the one game the second one will work.

Classic Third Person Adventure

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 21 / 21
Date: March 28, 2002
Author: Amazon User

What can I say? The Gabriel Knight series is to traditional 3rd person adventure what the MYST series is to atmospheric 1st person adventure: the best of its kind. Briefly put, they follow the adventures and experiences of author and bookstore owner, Gabriel Knight, as he unravels various occult mysteries and at the same time explores his odd heritage.

The stories are incredibly engaging and well developed; the author, Jane Jensen, put a remarkable amount of research into the subject matter. The characters are likable and believable, and the voice acting -- and in GK2, the acting -- is some of the best. Everything about these games is excellently done.

For the collector, the GK series is a little history of the adventure genre. GK1 is made with the 2D animation typical of the early 90s, while GK2 explores the FMV trend popular in the middle of the decade. In both the main action consists of finding and applying inventory items and gathering information by talking to a wide range of characters, with a spattering of arcade type puzzles and brain teasers to keep things interesting. One feature that I liked was that you are awarded points for completing puzzles, but you don't have to complete every puzzle to complete the game. This makes the games highly replayable as you can play through once for the bones of the story and then play again to go back and pick up what you might have missed the first time. There are also a lot of fun easter eggs that you can stumble on by chance.

Though the subject matter is sometimes grim, dealing with murders, conspiracies, and such occult subjects as voodoo and werewolves, there is a levening of humour in the character interactions that keeps the darkness at bay.

I found these games totally absorbing; it was not unusual to play for 7 - 10 hours at a stretch without even realising it. They are also very long -- a plus as far as I'm concerned -- taking a week to ten days to complete. You can be killed, but it happens rarely and when it does you are given the option to try again from a point right before you made your fatal mistake, so if you haven't saved recently it isn't such a big deal.

Die Hard fans of first person, MYST-like adventures may have a hard time relating to the Gabriel Knight series because it's so different, and players of shooters or pure action games will probably not like GK at all. If you like games like _The Longest Journey_, however, you will like these.

The collectors edition pack contains a lot of extras -- books, soundtracks, and the like. That's a plus and well worth having, because I was so sorry when the games were over that I wanted to keep reliving the experience again and again. I'd pay twice the price just to have one of these games. They truly are the best.

Two of the Greatest Adventure Games of All Time

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: March 22, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Now first off I must take note on the reviews that gave these games a single star. From their reviews it sounds like they are only mindless gamers. These games are not for those people. However, for the rest of the thinking population GET THIS PACK! While they are visually dated, they are timeless classics for ever reason that make an adventure game great:consuming and deep storylines, characters that you feel for, and rewarding puzzles that are always logical.

If you enjoy adventure games and you haven't played the Gabriel Knight Series, there is no reason as to why you shouldn't buy these games. And if your someone that enjoys being able to put some thought into the games your playing, then I strongly recommend you play these games. You won't regret it.

It doesn't get any better

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 45 / 47
Date: March 08, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Gabriel Knight is probably the best adventure game ever created. The story is fantastic, as good as any movie you can watch. The characters are extremely well written, the dialogue funny, dark, surprising, erotic. Everything you can wish for and everything you do not expect in an adventure game.

Gabriel Knight is a bookshop owner and a struggling writer who is haunted by odd dreams. Suddenly, he finds himself in the middle of a mystery involving the 'voodoo murders' in New Orleans, he investigates both the murders, and his dreams and the result are surprising to both him and the player! Gabriel Knight 2 sees Gabriel is Germany, a best-selling author and hunting 'werewolf' murders this time.

Gabriel Knight II is just as good. The game incorporates real-video scenes, which I truly enjoyed, they make the game so real, almost like a movie that you control. The story takes off where sins of the fathers ended, and as usual, it is fantastic.. Jane Jensen (the writer) has the ability to grip your mind so that the game takes over.. This is one of them games that you'll feel sorry is over!

Don't buy these games if you're addicted to point-and-shoot games, you won't enjoy it. But if you're looking for an enjoyable, and sometimes educational, experience that requires more than just manual dexterity, don't even hesitate.

A Series Unlike Any Other.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: March 28, 2001
Author: Amazon User

The Gabriel Knight Series has reestablished the genre of mystery games to a higher level, creating elaborate stories with difficult puzzles and abstract clues that make completing the game extremely difficult. I have all three Gabriel Knight games and love them all. Sins of the Fathers, although it has the worst graphics of the three, is easily the most amazing. Its compelling story about a series of brutal and savage murders related to voodoo rituals is enticing and intense, drawing the player into a twisted circle of betrayal, lies, and discovery. The Beast Within, which was noted as Game of the Year in 1996, is also amazing on all levels. Featuring actual actors instead of 3-D rendered people, the game plays like an interactive movie, while also lacing into it an EXTREMELY complex story concerning a girl's death linked with werewolves.

In essence, these games are some of the best games ever created. Their plots are astounding and their gameplay is without a doubt, the best it can get for a game of its type. Anyone who has a LOT of freetime and is interested in playing games that take skill AND brains, invest in this package immediately.

Grade: A+

... JUST GET THIS PACKAGE!!!!!!!!!

Stinks, felt it was a waste of money

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 25
Date: March 25, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game because the guy in the store told me that it was cool, he said it was like Myst, that it was not. I did not like this game. Sound stinks, graphics stink. I cant belive sierra put this one out, usually their games rule, like Hlf-Life, and SWAT, I thought this was a dissappointment.

was not to crazy about this game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 21
Date: March 16, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I was not to crazy about the beast within game, it is not to exciting and I found it to be boring.

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