Schizm: Mysterious Journey

• 300 MHz Intel Pentium II or AMD CPU
• 32 MB RAM
• 12x CD / DVD -ROM drive
• 200 MB hard disk space
• DirectX compatible graphics card
• DirectX compatible sound card

Schizm: Mysterious Journey is an adventure game that was released developed by the Polish company Detalion and LK Avalon and the Canadian publisher DreamCatcher Games under the label The Adventure Company in 2001. The story of the game comes from the Australian science fiction writer Terry Dowling. 2004 appeared a successor with the title Schizm 2: Deceptive truth.

Action

Sam and Hannah are space pilots who transport a space shuttle relief supplies to a scientific expedition on the planet Argilus. As they approach the planet, they lose control of their space ship and have to leave it with the help of a rescue capsule. The two pawns are separated at this point of the game on the uninhabited planet: Sam is in a kind of city that consists of balloon -shaped airships. Hannah lands on a floating island that is also home to a city. First, the two have no way to communicate, but this will change during the course of the game. Once both are in Matia 's Zone, they must travel together on one last puzzle in order to escape from the planet can and to clarify where the inhabitants of the planet have remained.

Gameplay

The game has similarities with the adventure game series Myst (especially Riven ), with realistic environment backgrounds, and other similar forms of movements and interactions. A key differentiator of Schizm other games was that the player between the two characters in the game could switch back and forth. Some of the tasks in the game could only be solved.

Reception

PC Games awarded to the game Schizm a fun rating of 45% and criticized ". Behind the glossy façade hides abstract puzzle variation, which can be an ordeal the gaming experience and nowadays hardly elicit someone behind the stove " 4Players rated the game with 64 % and evaluated: " Schizm is worth the money in itself and especially for players interested who want difficult puzzles to crack nuts. "

Console World rated Schizm 2 with 76 %, praising: ". Especially the story and the nice appearance can inspire " 4Players granted Schizm 2 a rating of 72 % and held the " exotic alien environment and the complex sci-fi action " for", "were critical of the " more interesting than Myst 4 latsch intense puzzles, where you explore the inanimate world and the acting are more for tinkerers outspoken natures. "

The game was released on five CDs or a DVD. The CD version does not contain all the puzzles that are on the DVD release and also a part of the background story was omitted from the CD version. Schizm: Mysterio's Journey was a commercial success with 260,000 copies sold and was one of the " most successful sci-fi adventure games in Germany ."

Successor

The second part of the game was on three CDs under the name Mysterious Journey 2 (or Schizm 2: Chameleon ): published Deceptive truth with German voice output as well as in Germany in April 2004 as Schizm 2. Author of the second part was also Terry Dowling.