About This Game In a desolate corner of the Underground Empire, an evil demon torments the Land. Evil rules the Forbidden Lands. Here, the souls of the Empire’s Great Alchemists lie in perpetual hell…at the hands of the Nemesis. Now the forces of the Underground beckon you to uncover the mystery behind the Nemesis’ curse…Travel through five mind-bending worlds to discover the ancient secret of Alchemy that will free the trapped souls from evil’s grip….Before the Nemesis imprisons you with the others…For eternity. Do you dare enter the Forbidden Lands?Five highly detailed worlds entice you with over 65 innovative puzzlesSpectacular production value - Hollywood actors, dramatic live-action video, hypnotic ambient music and dazzling special effectsDirected by live action director, Joe Napolitano of X-Files and Murder One fame 6d5b4406ea Title: Zork Nemesis: The Forbidden LandsGenre: AdventureDeveloper:Zombie StudiosPublisher:ActivisionRelease Date: 29 Feb, 1996 Zork Nemesis: The Forbidden Lands Download For Pc [hack] I first played this game some fifteen years ago as part of a collection of Zork games, which included the three original text adventures. Zork Nemesis was always the odd one out - it's a first person adventure game, and it has almost none of the humour of the others, sometimes verging almost on horror - you start out exploring a mansion to rescue the souls of four alchemists who seems to be suffering immensely at the hands of a "nemesis", some sort of evil demonic being.However, I am dissapointed in this Steam version, which has a few quirks. I'm pretty sure the game I played originally was the modern Windows version, which took up 4 CDs and probably wouldn't run so well on modern computers, but this one is the DOS version. When you start the game, press Control-P to load the options menu and turn on "3D sound". Without it, the sound will continually crackle and the audio is pretty dang awful. Also turn down the mouse sensitivity, which is really, really high by default, a major issue in a game controlled almost entirely by the mouse. Thanks heavens it comes with a manual, because there are no menus and thus you need to use keyboard hotkeys to save, lord and even quit the game. I didn't read the manual at first and thus got seriously confused when I couldn't exit. Remember: Control-S to Save, Control-L to load, Control-Q to quit.Personally, I think STEAM or somebody could have improved this port a little bit. It comes with DosBox and runs okay, but it's clearly showing its age at times. I really, really would have preferred subtitles for the game, because there is a lot of voice acting.The contrast between the static pictures and the animated parts is also VERY jarring, due to the low resolution of the animated scenes. By complete accident while watching a youtube video of cats with sound effects, I managed to condense the Zork game into a window, where the resolution of the game isn't as much a problem.in short, I recommend this game for anybody who likes point and click adventures. I found it well worth its price tag despite being a dos game and I even managed to get it on sale, when it was even cheaper. It does have a couple of quirks but they are fairly easily fixed and\/or ignored.. There are basically two things you should know about this game: first, is it a good game; second, is it a good port.To the first question, Zork Nemesis is among the best first-person point-and-click games of its era, and maybe my favourite outside Cyan Worlds' Myst\/Riven. The plot involves you entering an ancient, run-down temple and learning about the plight of four great alchemists who have been trapped in a state of purgatory by an evil presence called Nemesis. Of course, like many great adventure games, things are not as simple as they seem.It is a great game with tough but fair difficulty, no arbitrary deaths, a great little story, excellent cutscene direction, and really interesting and varied locations. If you take notes you should be able to beat the game without restoring to a guide, but there are also many guides online if you need to cheat. It is well worth the $5.99. The graphics are pre-rendered backgrounds with live action FMV playing on top of them, which at the time was very exciting and cutting edge. Also very nice music and sound effects, they really made the most of the 3 or 4 CDs the game shipped on. Compared with other games in the genre, it has a darker and more sinister tone. It's not quite horror, but at times it's close: for example, one segment involves you decapitating a cadaver with a guillotine and hooking up the severed head to electrodes. This is not the light-hearted comedy of the traditional Zork games, although there are jokes here and there.To the second question, I think the quality of the port is mixed. First, the game was released in two versions: Windows 95 and DOS. This is the DOS version, emulated through DOSBOX. There are no achievements, trading cards, gamepad controls, graphical settings, etc. Moreover, the DOS version requires you to use keyboard commands to save (Ctrl+S), load (Ctrl+R), exit (Ctrl+Q), and set options (Ctrl+P) because there are no menus. Please read the manual before you play to help with this. There are two minor technical issues -- some slight sound crackling, and mouse sensitivity is way too high. The bulk of the game is navigated through panning your field of view with the mouse, and so high mouse sensitivity makes it difficult to control. You can set it to a lower sensitivity in the preferences, but even on the lowest setting, it is too sensitive. This appears to be a the GOG.com version, which also suffered from these issues. There is also a question of the game holding up. It runs at 640x480; the FMV overlays are highly compressed, interlaced, low resolution video. Some of the game's beautiful visual designs look blurry or low detail because of the resolution, and there are a handful of puzzles where you must be very very precise with the mouse because click targets are quite small. This is definitely not modernized or ready for 2017, so I would recommend you be sure that you can handle something feeling dated before you jump in. I highly recommend the game. The playtime listed above is until completion on a replay; someone playing for the first time without a guide would be looking at probably 10-12 hours, maybe a little more.. After 2 decades, the beautiful scenes from this mind-boggling game are etched deeply in my memory.I recommend it with all my heart in spite of the static views, due to its cleverness and complexity.. I cANT PLAY THIS GAME BECAUSE THE CURSOR MOVES TOO FAST. i HAVE FOLLOWED ALL THE INSTRUCTUINBS AND CANNOT GET IT TO SLOW DOWN SO i CAN ACTUALLY SEE WHERE iM GOING AS i GO. I first played this game some fifteen years ago as part of a collection of Zork games, which included the three original text adventures. Zork Nemesis was always the odd one out - it's a first person adventure game, and it has almost none of the humour of the others, sometimes verging almost on horror - you start out exploring a mansion to rescue the souls of four alchemists who seems to be suffering immensely at the hands of a "nemesis", some sort of evil demonic being.However, I am dissapointed in this Steam version, which has a few quirks. I'm pretty sure the game I played originally was the modern Windows version, which took up 4 CDs and probably wouldn't run so well on modern computers, but this one is the DOS version. When you start the game, press Control-P to load the options menu and turn on "3D sound". Without it, the sound will continually crackle and the audio is pretty dang awful. Also turn down the mouse sensitivity, which is really, really high by default, a major issue in a game controlled almost entirely by the mouse. Thanks heavens it comes with a manual, because there are no menus and thus you need to use keyboard hotkeys to save, lord and even quit the game. I didn't read the manual at first and thus got seriously confused when I couldn't exit. Remember: Control-S to Save, Control-L to load, Control-Q to quit.Personally, I think STEAM or somebody could have improved this port a little bit. It comes with DosBox and runs okay, but it's clearly showing its age at times. I really, really would have preferred subtitles for the game, because there is a lot of voice acting.The contrast between the static pictures and the animated parts is also VERY jarring, due to the low resolution of the animated scenes. By complete accident while watching a youtube video of cats with sound effects, I managed to condense the Zork game into a window, where the resolution of the game isn't as much a problem.in short, I recommend this game for anybody who likes point and click adventures. I found it well worth its price tag despite being a dos game and I even managed to get it on sale, when it was even cheaper. It does have a couple of quirks but they are fairly easily fixed and\/or ignored.
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