Flight of the Amazon Queen
a.k.a. FOTAQ / הרפתקאות מלכת האמזונות / Harpatkaot Malkat ha-Amazonot
published by Renegade Software / Warner Interactive Entertainment in 1995, developed by Interactive Binary Illusions, running on MS-DOS
type: adventure
genre: Historical, Point-and-click adventure
perspective: 3rd person
player options: single player
other: Freeware
languages: eng fre heb ger
genre: Historical, Point-and-click adventure
perspective: 3rd person
player options: single player
other: Freeware
languages: eng fre heb ger
3.7/5
Description
It is 1949 and you play Joe King, pilot for hire with his small private plane the "Amazon Queen". The game is a spoof of old time adventure serials. After yet another daring escape at the start of the game, Joe suddenly remembers that he is scheduled to fly the famous movie star, Faye Russell, to a photo shoot in the Amazon jungle the next morning. But when he arrives at the hotel to pick her up, his arch rival Hans Anderson of Flying Dutchman Airlines locks him in the room. Finding a way out, he takes off with Miss Russell only to have his plane get hit by lightning and crash in the Amazon jungle. Now he will have to face some horrible challenges to survive: 6 feet tall 'pygmies', beautiful Amazon women (and their happy prisoners!), misguided missionaries, a wisecracking parrot, and of course a mad scientist, who's trying to take over the world by injecting dinosaur DNA into the women. This is a long, 3rd person, point & click game, with easy to use icons for action, a small inventory, and a brilliant map. The music is upbeat and changes with each location, the graphics are imaginative and colorful, with careful attention to often-hysterical details (Aztec temple statues holding baseball bats!), and the short animated cut scenes used to advance the story are a pure delight to watch. The puzzles are crazy, absorbing and fun (wearing fake breasts, bartering with a pygmy), and are usually solved by clues you have picked up in conversations and/or with inventory items. Most are not too difficult, but they do get harder as you go along. The CD-ROM version also offers surprisingly good voice acting - a rare treat in adventure games. It was made freeware on Mar 16/2004 when the source code was kindly given to the ScummVM team who then made it fully compatible with their engine.
Cebion # 2019-11-22 09:32:48
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External review - average: 76%
review source | issue | date | score | |||
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Génération 4 (001-082) | fr | 76 | 1995-04 | 76/100 | 76% |
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