![]() There is no real action but there is a series of puzzles you must solve if you are to repair the ship and fly her back home.ĭespite that the game box says it's suitable for anyone aged 3 onwards, age 11 seems a more realistic minimum. It is not so much an adventure game as a beautifully illustrated puzzle. ![]() This is one for any fan of Douglas Adams! The graphics and sound are sumptuous, and yet its hardware requirements are modest by today's standards. I did wonder whether my initial reaction was overly harsh, but no: it was just as hateful the second time round. Given that this is the case why not give me a fixed choice? Why make me type "saxophone" in manually? By the way, you type in the answers to about twelve-or-so questions in this exchange after which the deskbot replies "Well, you won't like your room then." Ha bloody ha! Thanks for wasting my time you worthless excuse of a game. You can only answer one of those things - you can't type in "Guardian", for example. The suggestions offered by the deskbot are "The Blerontin Bugle? the Trumpet? Saxophone? Kazoo?" (this is also a good example of the so-called humour, by the way). Here's an example: when you first book into the starship you're asked questions about accommodation preferences, one of which is your favourite newspaper. The much-vaunted text parser is simply terrible: it simply means that you have type your answers in manually rather than select them from a menu of responses. The humour, such as it is, seems to lie in so-called funny voices rather than amusing content or situations. Yep, we're talking lots of static pre-rendered image with next to no animation and precious little interaction. I was expecting something like Grim Fandango with Robots. My goodness, I can't remember the last time a game made such a powerful negative impression on me. What has happened here? What terrible events occurred the night before the launch? Who is the mysterious Titania whose brooding statues dominate the ship? Can you solve a series of increasingly bizarre and surreal puzzles, unlock the central mystery and return to Earth before the parrot drives you finally and irrevocably mad? As you move up to second and lastly to first class, more and more of the ship becomes accessible to you, and more of the mystery unravels. To begin with, you are a third-class passenger, and you quickly find yourself in the grip of one of the most powerful forces known to modern man, the desire for a free upgrade. You can chat with any of the robot characters, like Fentible the distinguished Doorbot, Nobby the hypochondriac Lifebot, or Fortillian Bantoburn O'Perfluous, the outrageously convivial Barbot. You discover that you can communicate with them, a feat that is made possible by SpookiTalk, the game's proprietary interactive language engine. The ship is inhabited by a crew of malfunctioning robots and a semi-deranged parrot. Bewildered, you find your way aboard, and just as you are gazing at its awe-inspiring interior, the ship takes off again and heads deep into space. ![]() Seconds into its maiden voyage it crashes into hyperspace, vanishes and collides with your house. Starship Titanic is a technological marvel. ![]() Majestic and luxurious, its interior resembles a mixture of the Ritz, Chrysler Building, Tutankhamen's tomb and Venice. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice.Īt the heart of our galaxy, an advanced civilisation of which we knew nothing has built the biggest, most beautiful starship ever, the Starship Titanic. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice.
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