Point and click your way through this old-school adventure game. With some frustrating action sequences and gorgeous looks, it's good, but not as good as it should be.
Available on:
PC
Genre: Adventure Release date: April 25, 2006 Published by: Ubisoft Developed by: White Birds Productions
Many modern gamers are uninterested in classically-styled point-and-click adventure games. And admittedly, simply wandering around gorgeous, pre-rendered backgrounds and mouse-clicking on various bits of the set to see what happens isn't exactly an adrenaline rush.
However, these games can still tell a great story and offer up some clever puzzles, so we're glad a few people are still crafting them. Paradise is the latest from a fellow named Benoit Sokol, known by some as the marquee mind
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Your typical girl-loses-memory, girl-meets-panther story
Feb 25, 2006
It's sad but true: point-and-click adventure games are nearly extinct. The Myst series has finally expired after a long and storied life while many other franchises have died in captivity. However, weve recently had a first look at Paradise, an easy-going interactive adventure from the makers of the award-winning Syberia, 2002s adventure game of the year. After a long hiatus, the genre could use a jump-start.
Paradises stylish and mysterious African setting looks like a great locale for
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ESRB Rating
Paradise is rated: Teen
Blood,
Language,
Mild Violence