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Offensive Probing

by Ben Croshaw

Science Fiction
1999

About the Story

You play as Martin McSondheim, a new graduate of the Space Federation living in a cheap apartment on Triton. You've just received your first assignment on the SFS Connery, a scout ship surveying the Federation borders. Congratulations, Ensign!


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Brass Lantern
Offensive Probing is actually an inoffensive little game with some nice little puzzles and some nice little jokes. There are dozens of minor Inform games in the IF archive, most of which are pretty poor; Offensive Probing is in the same class, but it's one of the good ones. Not quite Balances, but I enjoyed it.

It's about the length of a smallish comp game; I finished it in two shortish sessions, spending most of my time stuck on two puzzles. I'll blame the first on temporary stupidity on my part, but I think the game was being unfair in the second case [...]. The plot is entirely linear, but the game does have a reasonable amount of interactivity in other areas.
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