Successful Adventure

11 years have passed since Jane Jensen has come with Gabriel Knight a fantastic conclusion of this adventure series us. For a long time disappeared from the scene, the maker is trying to build on previous successes with Gray Matter. Gabriel loved it. Can Samantha Everett, who had to wait for their turn for several years, following in the footsteps of their male predecessors? Or they are then but a size too big?

Whats the matter?

After her recently acquired motorcycle suddenly goes on strike and they just can prevent a more serious accident, Samantha Everett finds an enormous Landistz near the university town of Oxford again, which looks even more mysterious in the herunterprassenden rain.

In order to recover from her fall and not out there to spend the night in this weather, Sam takes the opportunity and gained access to the house by a young woman who is just outside the front door and is apparently expected by residents eliminated.

Glad to have spent the night in the dry, Sam will just as quickly disappear out of the house as she has gained access to the same. Unfortunately, it will not matter because the housekeeper keeps Sam for the assistant who was sent to be their employer side. Willy-nilly, Samantha must therefore continue to play the game only once.

The house is owned by the neurobiologist Dr. David Styles. Once celebrated by the students because of his great lectures and almost worshiped because of its appearance and its kind as a celebrity, the neuroscientist has lived a car accident in which his wife died much beloved Laura, retired on his estate.

He has tried one-half of his face with a Phantom of the Opera-memory mask covers over the years to include using a variety of experiments to contact his dead wife and: It is him actually succeeded!

In this context, he now dares to a new experiment. Six students will be guided through various visualization processes: jogging on the track, strength training in the gym, etc. The effects on heart rate, blood pressure and brain activity he wants to compare with the data of those who do these exercises actually conducted scientific conclusions about Fukntionsweisen of brain and to draw the body.

At the locations where the attempt rabbits carry out an activity in its conception, but happen to be the same times very strange things.

What does it mean? Is there a connection between the experiments and the individual events? Or someone drives as only a bad game and uses his knowledge of Dr. Styles attempts from bashful? And what role does Laura, who has also appeared before David's housekeeper and looks haunt the house and Sam? What mystery surrounding the Dread Hill property? Now the best, you can find out for yourself

Abracadabra

Gray Matter is a classic adventure game, which is divided into eight chapters in which you play depending on the chapter either Sam or David. With the amateur magician Sam, the dream is to be included in the Daedalus Club a secret association of major magician, you must in addition to, such Adventure corresponding mystery land, now and perform at small Zauberkünststücke to move forward in the story. In the magic book that is you from the beginning available, a number of tricks are listed that you at specific points and these are defined, so it is not so that you can try here and there, apply a trick to continue apply come to need. For this we need only follow the instructions in the book, in short: to perform this trick is really easy.

Puzzles are not rocket science

Speaking of light: Light are unfortunately considered as a whole and the puzzles. They are in principle not bad and over use can opener with tin, but is very often clear what to do, so you will hardly put on really big challenges. In addition, the mouse pointer for some items that you could just look at previously, changed and then you know that you can now interact with them. It even goes sometimes so far that in some objects the cursor is from the outset as a be examined or Use icon so that you know immediately that these are important.

To simplify the game bear the names of the individual places on the map and in a sense, at the very positive progress. If one has in one chapter at a venue fulfilled everything there is to be met, the name of the place is displayed in gray and you know that you no longer need to visit these. The progress bar is divided into several subjects and fills up when you progressed within a chapter in the respective areas. Using the headings can also often guess where to go next on the search.

As in many games, there are also in this help by pressing the space bar, which you display all objects that are clickable.

Considerable graphic

Graphically can convince Gray Matter really. Decorated in comic style cutscenes provide for quite atmosphere and otherwise there on the graphics side not much to complain about for an adventure.

We noticed, however, that it has apparently saved at some places with sequences. Instead of looking at the copy of a piece of paper or leaving the room of his interlocutor, for example, the screen is very short black and the next moment the particular action is already done.

Soundwise can actually convince only the main menu, where you also so long staying and in the cutscenes the game. Otherwise, each protagonist has his own music that is played when one denies a chapter with him. Again, the music is quite nice at first, but repeated relatively rapidly and some sounds then remain in the ear that if you do not like someone, in the long run may possibly be a bit annoying. On the speakers, who have done a great job, there is nothing wrong with sending you.

Collectors Edition

Who accesses this Edtition the game, get for your money in addition to the original soundtrack, a noble Gray Matter-card deck, five postcards with ornate Artwork designs and a poster, all packed into a great Steelbook.

Conclusion

With Gray Matter Jane Jensen manages a solid re-entry into the Adventure events. The puzzles are not so difficult but packaged in a compelling storyline in which you want to know more and more urgent with increasing gameplay, what it is about the individual incidents to be to solve this like. Gray Matter needs before his competitors not to hide in the adventure market and friends of this genre are with this game certainly have their joy.