An old game, Twinsen's Odyssey doesn't show it, still having great graphics, excellent sound and music, and great fun.
It's actually a sequel, but it doesn't really matter. I have the feeling that the first one, called Relentless, didn't do very well, and the decision was made to make LBA2 (Little Big Adventure 2, as LBA was the name of the game I guess) with only basic references to past events so that anyone and everyone could get along with the story just fine.
For its day (and even when held up against recent games) it had pretty decent graphics. The art is good, at any rate, whether or not the graphical engine itself is more than adequate. What I mean is, it looks good, even though it uses only so many polygons... I dunno. Anyway. Good graphics comparatively.
The music and sound was and still is (to my ears) excellent, with great music tracks, great sound effects, and decent (if not particularly stunning) voices. The voices sort of seem like it was 4 amateur voice actors who did extremely well- all the voices were of good quality and perfect for situation and tone and all that, but I'm pretty sure a lot of the voices were simply the same guy as before only while speaking through his nose this time or pitching his voice lower, etc... basically I think they had a really small voice cast who did extremely well in voicing all the characters and NPCs (every npc and character in the game can be talked to and have a voice, and that's pretty good, considering that not even Baldur's Gate had voices except for the player characters and some VIP npcs). But yeah, the music and sounds still are excellent, even compared to todays releases.
The story is more than decent, although most players above the age of 14 would consider a lot of the dialog simplistic and somewhat repetitive. While the progression of the story is in fact linear, the world is open and you can go basically anywhere you want. The basic plot revolves around you, Twinsen, the hero of the world Twinsun, who saved the world from an evil dictator named FunFrock, who tried to enslave and such. Having defeated him, you returned home, got hitched, and are expecting a kid. During a storm, your pal DinoFly (a flying dinosaur... did I forget to mention that some of the names weren't particularly original?) gets struck by lightning and you have to help him out. This sets you on the path towards gaining magical powers, and finally the storm breaks, and aliens come to your peaceful world, who talk nice, but seem fishy, and you just know you're on your way to trouble. The game's settings are really varied, from volcanic settings, to space settings, deserts, caves, and industrial centers. The settings and areas are extremely unique, actually.
Something some people might find interesting about this game is that although the basic play of the game involves violence, there is absolutely no gore, no blood, not even any death sequences- with the exception of 2 instances, all "deaths" result in the enemy/npc simply vanishing, almost always leaving behind an item (usually mana or health). So while the game is built around essentially violent action (the majority of play revolves around you defeating monsters and enemies), there isn't anything particularly disturbing about it (for those who'd be disturbed anyway...), especially since there are precious few actually human-looking characters, one of which is you, and as far as I can remember, you never fight any other almost-humans. The aliens you fight consist of 4 distinct races, and one is pretty human=like, but it's distinctly alien (big, blocky heads, pointed narrow chins, very very thin and tall).
I recommend that if you have children or know children and need a good computer game that works the brain (there are some tough puzzles in this game, but none that a child couldn't figure out given enough time) without having much human violence and absolutely no gore, try to find a copy of this game on Amazon or elsewhere. It's actually still being sold on Amazon for 25$. That surprises me. But personally, I'd say that's an excellent price for this old game. For today's standards, it looks and plays like an independent game-maker made it, because it's not top-notch graphics but it's excellent music and gameplay (and the graphics really aren't that bad).
And I'd also recommend this to anyone who just wants a singleplayer game they have never seen before that they'll really enjoy.
This is perhaps my favorite adventure game of all time. Abe's Oddyssey is a cheap, linear, 2D, worthless pos in comparison with Twinsen. The only thing Abe's has is graphics, and that's nothing compared to the importance of story, action, and overall fun. (although, Abe's is great to play AFTER you've finished playing Twinsen...)