A little boy has lost his dog into the world of darkness and now must enter the Heart of Darkness to find him. That's the story the Heart of Darkness a adventure puzzle game that will just pull you in. The game play is like Abe's Oddysee, End less lives and tons of puzzles. This game is great to look at, the backgrounds and characters look stunning and is animated vary well. The FMV (full motion video) are vary entertaining and again vary well done.The puzzles are easy to VARY challenging, and may take a hundred tries to get buy one puzzle. The sound and music are like a movie, the London Symphony makes this game sound great. Is this game perfect? no, the control is little stiff after a while I got used to it but it can get you killed. and the replay value is low, after beating the game there's no incentive to return to the Heart of Darkness. And of course the story it self is kind of dumb, The kid has a flying machine in his treehouse that takes him to the world of darkness! (every boy has one right?) but the characters save the story. If you loved Abe's Oddysee I highly recommend this game, if you never tried Abe then I think you should rent this game sometime. That is if your not afraid of the dark!
PUBLISHER: INTERPLAY
GRAPHICS: 10 MUSIC/SOUND: 10
CONTROL: 6.5 ORIGINALITY: 7
FUN & REPLAY: 6 SECRETS: 4
OVERALL: 8