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A Vampyre Story

An original LucasArts adventure? Well, almost... Bill Tiller tells us A Vampyre Story

Words: PC Zone UK
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Oh, to be a LucasArts veteran. To have lived through the days of Monkey Island and Full Throttle, and slipped away when it became about bad Star Wars games. To live as some sort of renegade idealist, criss-crossing the country on a Harley, rounding up a posse of old friends and starting your own development studio to produce a completely original adventure game. It's been done - a few times now in fact, (just look at Psychonauts ) - so could we be about to see it happen again?

A Vampyre Story is the brain-baby of game-art guru Bill Tiller. It stars Mona de Laffite ("after the loading dock in the Pirates Of The Caribbean ride at Disneyland," explains Tiller), an unwilling vampiress who finds herself sharing an adventure with Froderick, her friendly bat companion. Expect pointing-and-clicking on a classic LucasArts level, with vampiric abilities such as shape-shifting playing a part in the game's puzzles.

So, can we expect funny? Monkey Island-funny? "Sure," says Tiller, "after all, it's a comic adventure! Many people seem to think it's like The Curse Of Monkey Island and The Secret Of Monkey Island, just in the horror genre instead of the pirate genre. So, while the game has a darker subject matter and art style than a Pirates in the Caribbean setting, and definitely has its own style, we're striving to produce a game that's both very funny and unique. Our writer, Dave Harris, is one of the most talented and most funny persons ever to walk the face of the earth, and also a LucasArts veteran, so Monkey Island-funny is probably a good way to put it."

 
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A Vampyre Story
A Vampyre Story

Genre: Adventure
Release date: Nov 25, 2008
Published by: Ascaron Entertainment
Developed by: Autumn Moon Entertainment
Min system requirements: 1.6GHz, 512Mb RAM, 256Mb 3D card
Recommended system: 2GHz, 1Gb RAM, 512Mb 3D card
Multiplayer Modes:
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1 player SOLO
5 SO-SO
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