Douglas Adams's Starship Titanic: A Novel (Taschenbuch)

Douglas Adams's Starship Titanic: A Novel (Taschenbuch)
von Terry Jones, Douglas Adams

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Starship Titanicis a science-fiction adventure set aboard a colossal spaceship (which is named after a fairly well-known cruise ship from the planet Earth). It seems that something has gone horribly wrong aboard theStarship Titanic--a fact that becomes evident as the vessel slams into the cozy confines of your living room. Now, at the request of the ship's robotic crew, you must go aboard, figure out what went wrong, and fix it.

The game uses impressively rendered graphics to depictStarship Titanic's opulent interior. For the most part, you can make your way through the ship and the game using the mouse as you would inMyst. For conversations with the robot attendants, you use the keyboard and the game's text parser. This combination of contemporary adventure-game graphics and classic-style text conversations works well.

As with any adventure game, this one has a lot of puzzles for you to solve. And like everything else Douglas Adams comes up with, the puzzles in this game are complex, challenging, and often downright silly. You'll have to disarm a bomb, for example, that has a 20-digit "combination" and that constantly taunts you. (Monty Python's John Cleese plays the voice of the bomb.) You'll also have to deal with an annoying, chicken-eating parrot (played by Terry Jones, another Python veteran and author of theStarship Titanicnovel).One thing to keep in mind as you playStarship Titanicis that the puzzleswillleave you frustrated at times. That's OK--in fact, that's probably what Adams had in mind from the start--because most of the solutions to these puzzles are incredibly bizarre and unusual. If you get really stuck, the DoorBot and BellBot can usually be of some assistance.

Even with a little help from these automated assistants, however,Starship Titanicwill have you puzzling for hours and hours.--Michael Ryan

Starship Titanicwas inspired by Douglas Adams--the creator ofThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy--and forms the basis of a computer game which was launched in late 1997.

At the centre of the galaxy, a vast, unknown civilisation is preparing for an event of epic proportions--the launch of the greatest, most gorgeous, most technologically advanced spaceship ever built--the Starship Titanic. Leovinus, the galaxy's most renowned architect and designer of the craft, notices something is not quite right just before the ship is launched: poor workmanship, cybersystems out of control, and robots walking into doors. The maiden voyage goes horribly wrong as the Titanic veers off course and crashes towards Earth.-- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine andere Ausgabe:Taschenbuch

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