Old-School style point and click adventure brought into the modern age.

User Rating: 8 | Gemini Rue PC
Gemini Rue is brought to us from the indie studio Wadjet Eye Games best known for their series "Blackwell" and follows in their long standing tradition of PC-centric point and click adventure games.

The game follows the adventures of two characters, Azrael Odin and Delta-Six. While playing similarly are on two completely sides of the galaxy. Azrael, is on the search for his brother must go trough the seedy underworld for clues of his location. Delta-Six, a patient in a strange facility planning his escape.

Throughout the journey you discover trough a surprisingly well written Sci-Fi Noir. You discover backgrounds of both characters that will have you pushing trough to end to see what happens. It's a story driven game that manages to strike a rare perfectly balance of story-telling and gameplay. Neither is neglected for one another and you won't be at any point when is it time to get back to playing.

Accompanying all of this together is the games brilliant sound work. Everything from rain drops to voice acting and the minimal score are unique to both characters. Both sides have worlds and voice actors that are an exact fit for their chosen roles. The rain soaked world Barracus has an ambient jazz selection, fitting for the role of Azrael. While Delta-Six, also has an ambient selection but is centered around a more synth and drum heavy selection of tracks for his role in Colony 4. All of which are of high quality, rivaling even some of the best scores heard in gaming.

The game-play is your typical point-and-click affair with a bit of an action oriented twist. If you've ever played a point and click adventure game Gemini-Rue doesn't do much deviate from this, if at all & it's hard to really fault it for doing it's job of giving you a simple way to interact with the environment to complete your objectives. There is also a gun aspect to Gemini-Rue. While it could have been executed better- while it doesn't hurt or harm your experience, it would have been nice to have better incorporated into mouse only controls and to not regulate yourself to the keyboard for the brief times they do happen.

In the end Gemini Rue won't do much to change the average persons idea of Adventure Games, but for those who are will find a fantastic experience worth remembering why they enjoy such titles in the first place. The musical score, atmosphere and fantastic writing combine to make everything that an adventure game should be. And it's hard to not recommend it to fans of the genre, and who knows, even to those who aren't.