Adventure Game News for 14 Feb 06

It's time for the second round of voting on the XYZZY awards, now that the nominees have been selected. You have until Sunday, March 5th at midnight EST to submit your votes for best game, best use of medium, best NPCs, and more.

Several web sites have reviewed the new adventure game based on the Agatha Christie novel:

• GamingExcellence gave it a "mediocre" score of 6.8, saying, "Unfortunately adventure games made in the mid 90’s with full motion video look better than this game and it's [sic] 3D marionettes."
• USA Today gave it a similar numeric score of 3.5 stars out of 5, but was kinder in the actual review. The reviewer concluded, "And Then There Were None is a challenging game that should appeal to both murder mystery fans and adventure gamers who prefer a slower-paced head-scratcher than a mindless shoot-em-up."