Jane Jensen's Moebius Comes to Life
It was nearly a year ago that Moebius was revealed [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/116800-Gabriel-Knight-Gets-a-Spiritual-Successor-in-Moebius] to the world as a "spiritual successor" to the Gabriel Knight games, Sierra's famed supernatural adventure series that ran through the 90s. Little was said about it at the time except that it would be a 2D point-and-click adventure starring a rather Knight-ish sounding character by the name of Malachi Rector, all as you'd expect.
Now it's time to actually take a real look at the thing, thanks to the newly-launched Moebius website, which sets the table for Rector's adventures. He's an antiques appraiser with a photographic memory and a "genius for history" who finds himself contracted by a shadowy government agency to investigate the life of a dead woman. The job will take him to Venice, Cairo, Paris, Zurich and Washington DC, but as he digs, he learns that there's more going on than he ever suspected - and that his own life is now in danger.
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Moebius is apparently the "first full adventure" Jensen has designed since Gray Matter, which came out in 2010, and the first she has designed/directed since Gabriel Knight 3, all the way back in 1999 - the difference being (I'm guessing) that Moebius is being developed by Jensen's own Pinkteron Road studio, giving her a firmer hand on the tiller.
Jensen plans to show Moebius for the first time at E3 in June, and a demo will be released the same month. For fans of old-school adventure games, and especially the Gabriel Knight series (which had, and has, a very dedicated fan base), it's pretty exciting stuff. If that's your crowd, you can find out more about the game at moebiusthegame.com [http://moebiusthegame.com/].
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It's finally time for an up-close look at Moebius, the new paranormal adventure coming from Gabriel Knight creator Jane Jensen.It was nearly a year ago that Moebius was revealed [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/116800-Gabriel-Knight-Gets-a-Spiritual-Successor-in-Moebius] to the world as a "spiritual successor" to the Gabriel Knight games, Sierra's famed supernatural adventure series that ran through the 90s. Little was said about it at the time except that it would be a 2D point-and-click adventure starring a rather Knight-ish sounding character by the name of Malachi Rector, all as you'd expect.
Now it's time to actually take a real look at the thing, thanks to the newly-launched Moebius website, which sets the table for Rector's adventures. He's an antiques appraiser with a photographic memory and a "genius for history" who finds himself contracted by a shadowy government agency to investigate the life of a dead woman. The job will take him to Venice, Cairo, Paris, Zurich and Washington DC, but as he digs, he learns that there's more going on than he ever suspected - and that his own life is now in danger.
[gallery=1255]
Moebius is apparently the "first full adventure" Jensen has designed since Gray Matter, which came out in 2010, and the first she has designed/directed since Gabriel Knight 3, all the way back in 1999 - the difference being (I'm guessing) that Moebius is being developed by Jensen's own Pinkteron Road studio, giving her a firmer hand on the tiller.
Jensen plans to show Moebius for the first time at E3 in June, and a demo will be released the same month. For fans of old-school adventure games, and especially the Gabriel Knight series (which had, and has, a very dedicated fan base), it's pretty exciting stuff. If that's your crowd, you can find out more about the game at moebiusthegame.com [http://moebiusthegame.com/].
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