A rich storyline, beautiful graphics and charismatic characters combine to make this game a memorable experience.
George Stobbart, our highly charismatic Gabriel Knight look-a-like character returns to his supernatural world of adventures, and where at the first game his adventures led him into an ancient Templar mistery, now he must face an all powerful foe, an Ancient Mayan god and its followers, moving from beautifully crafted Paris to beautifully crafted London, to dozens of hand drawn scenarios until his final showdown in a Central American Pyramid. Overall, the graphics are a lot smoother and fit nicely to the tale (from bland rainy London to colorful Quaramonte).
Nico is back and although her playing time has been drastically reduced, her intelligence is still a nice counterpart to George's 'witty creativity'. All characters are well thought of, and brilliantly acted. The BGM and environmental sounds are also worthy of praise, as they help immerse the player deeply into the story.
The gameplay is what some may call it uncreative, but I choose to call it 'old-school'. Hey, it's point and click. It has worked for adventure games for fifteen years. Why change?
It won't win dozens of awards, it's far from a landmark in the history of adventure games, but it has one remarkable feature that makes it stand above the large majority: It stays in your memory. I don't know how long ago I played it, but the story is still deep within my mind.
It is clearly a game made by adventure fans, to adventure fans.