Pure adventure games have been next to extinct since the late 90s. However every once in a while, a great well made one does manage to be produced. Syberia is one such game. You play Kate Walker who is a lawyer sent to a small French village to close a deal on the buy-out of a family owned toy factory, which produced human-like robot machines called automatons. To your dismay when you arrive, you find out that the owner has passed on and that there is a rightful heir to the factory. Our protagonist is then set out on a big adventure to find this heir. Those familar with the old skool point n' click adventure gaming genre will feel right at home with Syberia's gameplay mechanics and interface. You basically use your mice cursor to move your character about, pick up items and manipulate objects. Like many past old-skool style adventure games, Syberia does suffer as well from the "find the dreaded pixel item and click-fest" syndrome. Aside from that and the voice acting of the other characters in the game (who happen to also strangely speak very fluent English with sterotyped European accents), those are my only compliants. The story I found took sometime to get into, but it is one hell of a story. The graphics are excellent and something that have to be seen to believe. The screen shots just don't do it justice. The background music is great and does help offset the voice acting quality a bit. The puzzle solving is relatively easy, but as mentioned earlier with the dreaded pixel hunting and once in a while, but relative small brain teasers, can sometimes be a little fustrating. But nothing too overly difficult that it takes away from the enjoyment of the game. As for the ending, without giving too much away, it pretty much made it obvious that a sequel was at the time expected. If you are an adventure gaming fan, Syberia does come highly recommended. In a day and age when great adventure games tend to be few and far between, Syberia is a worth addition to your adventure gaming collection.
I purchased the Syberia Collector's Edition for my daughter (8) for Xmas 2010 based on the overwhelmingly positive reviews here and elsewhere. It is indeed a wonderful game full of marvelous sights and things. Much lik... Read Full Review
Adventure game that never like before! Great adventure and the most great adevnture game for all times! I play it 2 times, first on my own and after 2 years with my girl-friend and was like first time, sensational with m... Read Full Review
