Reviews

(might include some spoilers - read only if you have played the game already)

The Dig is an exceptional adventure I have never before and never after encountered again. I remember buying it at our local dealer for about 30 usd when it was new and I was happy having got the original version with the English speech.

From the very beginning you're caught in an amazingly detailed and epic adventure. As the plot develops, you learn more about each of the three main characters while the music supports every single scene perfectly. What starts off as a simple NASA mission to save the world turns out to be the most exciting challenge I have been confronted with in an adventure game.

The dialogues are unprecedented and unachieved in any other adventure game I have played and while the game lacks the kind of humour you are used to from Indiana Jones or Monkey Island but involves you more deeply into the quest that Maggie, Boston and Ludger are up to.

In my opinion, everyone who has played the game and enjoyed it like me should read the novel by Alan Dean Foster. It comes up with new perspectives on the characters, showing them closer than you have got to know them in the game. Additionally, the book provides you with a slightly different plot that starts off very slowly but you can hardly take a rest for eating or sleeping because it's so well written. How Foster deals with the Cocytan presences is surprising at first, then traps you even in more in the story.

Summary: Everyone who likes thoroughly designed adventure games with a brilliant atmosphere should play this game and then read the novel.

(10/10)

The 6th day is with Arnold Schwarzenegger who is one of the last remaining true action heros from the 1980s and early 1990s when action films consisted of cool and sharp guys who had to do a bad job, save the world, kiss a girl and leave some silly quotes wherever they break the neck of someone evil.

I consider this film a solid action film in which I especially liked the way of paying the taxi fare. Despite all the risks arising from a national or even international fingerprint database, I'd very much appreciate such a simple way of paying.

*SLIGHT SPOILER AHEAD* The film's about cloning and its possible consequences. To make it short, there are some very enjoyable moments and there are no incoherencies I found but the helicopter mirror thing scene seemed a little off the way (if this is expressed correctly for: not suiting in the rest).

6/10