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The Best Man

by Rob Menke

2000

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>VERBOSE -- Paul O'Brian's Interactive Fiction Page

One of the most successful attempts to bring to IF the edge-of-seat thrills packed into films like Die Hard and Speed, The Best Man puts the PC on a train that has recently become a very dangerous place. Through cleverness, skill, and courage, he must find a way to neutralize the danger, rescue the passengers, and stop the train without disaster. The train itself is implemented wonderfully, with details that reveal themselves only upon close inspection, but are perfectly logical once they are clear. In fact, inspection of those details is crucial to winning the game, so be sure to look at things quite closely. Most of the time, the game will reward you, if not with a discovery then at least with one of its many concise, well-written descriptions.
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SynTax
The atmosphere is good and this game is worth persevering with, although the timer can be a nuisance and some of the situations were of the "guess-the-verb" variety.
-- Dorothy Millard
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v.6: 17-Apr-2021 05:22 - Paul O'Brian (Current Version) - Edit Page - Normal View
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