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Welcome to Game Collector, where GameSpot hunts for great deals on games so you don't have to. This week's edition features a list of classic adventures games from the past several years at the best prices available anywhere. Among these are several of the greatest PC games to date. If you've been looking for an elusive adventure game and haven't had any luck, or been wanting to get into this key genre in PC gaming, then Game Collector is the perfect place to start.
The Longest Journey (2000)
Street Price: $28
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Winner of GameSpot's Best Adventure Game of 2000, The Longest Journey has an incredible, original story. The game takes place in two parallel worlds, and protagonist April Ryan suddenly finds herself apparently trapped in the one she doesn't recognize. Both worlds have a distinct culture and a huge cast of interesting characters, and the game is beautiful thanks to the impressive, realistic graphics; prerendered backgrounds and fluidly animated 3D characters make the game seem cinematic and lifelike.
Grim Fandango (1998)
Street Price: $10
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Grim Fandango, GameSpot's Game of the Year 1998, is based on Mexican folklore and is set in the land of the dead. The game follows four years in the afterlife of Manny Calavera as he travels through a variety of fantastic locales. Everything about Grim Fandango is outstanding--its intriguing story, its unforgettable characters, its art direction and visual style, and its excellent jazz soundtrack, to name just a few.
Full Throttle (1995)
Street Price: $10
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LucasArts' 1995 Full Throttle features a superb story that draws from the Mad Max and Easy Rider films. It has an engaging, film-quality script that unfolds with the confidence and grace of its square-jawed hero, Ben. And it has all the ingredients of a great story: murder, deception, greed, lust, unrequited love, honor, and motorcycles. In addition, the game has some of the best voice acting ever and one of the best endings of all time.
The Last Express (1997)
Street Price: $10
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Regarded as one of the best yet most overlooked adventure games of all time, The Last Express is a true find. The game takes place on the Orient Express just before the outbreak of World War I, and it features some of the most realistic and most interesting characters in a computer game. The story includes international political intrigue, betrayal, surprising yet believable plot twists, romance, and more. It also takes place in real time. If you've never heard of The Last Express, it's not too late to catch it.
Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned (1999)
Street Price: $13
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The Gabriel Knight mysteries are some of the best-known adventure-horror games on the PC. In this third installment, the story involves a centuries-old mystery of Rennes-le-Chateau, vampires, Catholicism, and how they're all interconnected. The game features a 3D engine, real-time lighting effects, and well-animated, 3D-rendered characters. If you like the paranormal, historical settings, and interesting puzzles and characters, you can't go wrong with this game.
The Curse of Monkey Island (1997)
Street Price: $10
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The Curse of Monkey Island is the third game in the Monkey Island series, and if you ever enjoyed the first two classic adventures, you'll enjoy this one as well. Curse has fantastic graphics and music, challenging puzzles, and the kind of hilarious dialogue the series is known for. And if you don't know Guybrush Threepwood, here's your chance to meet one of the best heroes of all time as well as his arch enemy, the evil zombie pirate LeChuck, in an adventure that's fun to play and watch.
Spycraft: The Great Game (1996)
Street Price: $14
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Spycraft puts you in the role of a modern-day CIA operative caught in the middle of a major international incident. Though it plays like a conventional point-and-click adventure game, Spycraft was noteworthy for its exceptionally authentic re-creations of various CIA gadgets. You'd have to use the world's best covert-ops technology in order to get to the source of a major threat to the free world.
Outcast (1999)
Street Price: $9
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In Outcast you play as the wisecracking action hero Cutter Slade, and you've been commanded to lead a rescue mission in a parallel world. The mission goes awry, and that's where things get interesting. There's a lot to explore in the game, as the gameworld of Adelpha offers six very different regions, each with unique inhabitants. In addition to good looks, the Outcast has great voice acting and a great soundtrack. And unlike some conventional adventure games, Outcast includes plenty of action.
Sanitarium (1998)
Street Price: $14
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Here's an adventure game told like no other: The story is quite interesting, but how it's told is more interesting still. You assume the role of various characters in what seem to be psychotic episodes. These characters range from a small child to an Aztec leader, to a four-armed Cyclops. Each of these episodes has strange, dreamlike similarities to the events transpiring in the game's real world. And the game keeps you guessing up until the end.
Zork Nemesis: The Forbidden Lands (1996)
Street Price: $10
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Zork Nemesis was the first in the long-lasting adventure series to feature fully panoramic 3D scenery. When it was released in early 1996, it had great, brooding graphics that fit the uncharacteristically dark themes and story, but it was the 3D sound effects and haunting music that were the best things about it. If you like to solve tough puzzles and unravel mysteries in a chilling atmosphere with some of the best sound effects ever, you'll like Zork Nemesis.
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