Majestic, Part I: Alien Encounter
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| Author: | Istvan Pely |
| Publisher: | Piranha Interactive |
| Engine: | Macromedia Director |
Description (from Jave):
"Majestic is a first-person, point-and-click adventure. It's a bit on the old side (in fact, it has to run in 256 colors); however, most of the movements are fully animated, as opposed to slide show. There are music and sound effects, but no spoken dialog--just subtitles. This curious choice is unfortunate (and also seriously hurt Zero Critical). However, as he showed in Zero Critical, Pely has a very good sense of story. Sherban Young has crafted a compelling one here: the Majestic is a luxury cruiser that has had a terrible mishap, and you have been dispatched to figure out what the heck went wrong. This is a classic, irresistible setup for an adventure game: an abandoned space ship to explore!"
Note 1: It's named after the Majestic 12, the second biggest conspiracy event since Roswell:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majestic_12
Note 2: The author discusses this game and others in an interview:
https://web.archive.org/web/20080413054415/http://www.justadventure.com:...
Followed by Symbiocom and Zero Critical.
CompatibilityArchitecture: 68k PPC
Hybrid disc copied with Toast 5; ie contains both Mac and PC versions, which can be mounted or burned.
Must run in 256 colours.
68030 or faster
System Requirements:
Macintosh:
68040/PowerPC
Mac OS 7 or later
16 MB RAM
4X CD-ROM drive
50 MB of free hard drive space
IBM and 100% Compatibles:
Windows 95
Pentium 75 MHz
16 MB RAM
SVGA display (256 color)
4X CD-ROM drive
50 MB of free hard drive space
16-Bit sound card
Comments
i wonder how long i could play this one without becomin bored. i would hope a very long time, especially considerin that its so big. gee, i also wonder whether a part 2 ever came out, or if this was 1 of those "part 1 is all the game creator thought needed to be made" games.
Very smooth in 7.6 on Basilisk II for me, but too choppy in SheepShaver on my old machine.
According to Mobygames he was the lead artist for Fallout 3. Check out his personal site, http://www.movkup.com/
I like what I've seen of this so far; I love exploration games, like L-ZONE.
In the link I've added to an interview with the author he discusses this game and others he worked on:
http://www.justadventure.com/Interviews/Istvan_Pely/Istvan_Pely_Intervie...