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"A fantastic game"
While the third installment of the Gabriel Knigh series takes third place in the series(in my opinion, mainly due to the ending where I think Jane Jensen overstep a few boundries she shouldn't have), it is still a fantastic gaming experience that is EXTREMELY rare today and when the game was release. Part of what makes this game great is that it is a TRUE Adventure. Since the game industry which had once spurred with creativity had changed direction for the worst when greedy capitalists took absolute control and decided their new customers won't want to bother trying something new or understanding games and genres the selection of games and quality have declined to a unprecedented low. This genre, Adventure, as it is presented in this game and the entire series embodies what games used and are SUPPOSED to be like! Normally I never write review but one review I spotted for this game was so very ignorant and misleading that somebody needs to point out the numerous errors. It seems that Mr. Jason Moore does not want to put effort into learning anything about the series that he purchased a game from. First of all, NO game from the Gabriel Knight series is based on ANY book! Jane Jensen wrote the Gabriel Knight series as GAMES and afterwards wrote the books which are based on the games. You cannot get a very good understanding of the characters from the books as much as you can from the games. The main character is of higher quality to a person who played the earlier games from the series but still well crafted and has an interesting personality(And yeah, Jason Moore, he IS southern! He's from New Orleans!). The graphics engine displays very good graphics which would be pleasing to anyone but it is very heavy on the CPU and would seem buggy on a slow machine. Calling graphics outdate is a clear sign of ignorance of games. Graphics can NEVER be outdated, just poor. And GK3's graphics are neither. Graphics must fit the presentation of the game.Calling graphics outdated would be like calling using paragraphs in a book outdated. As far as Jason Moore's comment on story: This is an adventure game! It's all about the story! The story is the single most important part of an adventure game! The story in every Gabriel Knight are incredibly well written and intriguing. Jane Jensen is a fantastic writer who is few can come even dare to match both in game design and in books. You never have to read the books to play the game. In fact it is impossible to read the book to understand the game because the books are written after the games and the GK3 book has never even been written as far as I know. Gamers like the one previously mentioned are exactly the kind who caused the game industry to rot. Most game players do not even know what an adventure game is any more(RPGs and Adventure games are very different genres, contrary to miscategorization on many sites, including Amazon.com).

"How can you give this less then 4 stars?"
Truly a great adventure game. Now I was an "old-school" fan of adventure games back when developers cared about that genre. now adventure gaming is a dying breed, with only about one or two new adventure games coming out a year and most of those slipping through the cracks where only devoted fans hear about them. True fans are forced to the classics. Now this game in my mind is one of the true great adventure games along with the monkey island series, space quest series, and heros quest series. The game itself may confuse some non-adventure gamers, who don't understand the point of adventure games, but it will leave a great taste in your mouth when you finish it. Regardless if you played the past two Gabriel Knight games you can pick up the plot pretty easily and it draws you in and never lets go. Sneaking around churches and cellars hearing screams and seeing claw marks help set the mood of terror and suspense throught the whole game. This game is similar to one of the movies where the movie dosen't become great until the end when it all wraps up. A must buy for adventure fans, and for those gamers sick of shooting the same space aliens!

"The Best Tale In Years"
A scary intense story with deep felt characters and a world of mystery. It is truly a game that will make you care and wonder about the exciting conclusion of the adventure game that ends the story Beautifuly.

"the best Gabriel Knight"
This game is the epitome of adventure games. It has a great suspense story, which half based on history. The Gabriel Knight games have really made history a really interesting. This incarnation of Gabriel Knight has an excellent 3D world. The graphics are way better than the first game and there is no interactive movie wierdness of the second. The game is organized in time blocks. After you finish all the tasks for one block you move to the next. This gives an excellent effect of time flowing by as you proceed through the game.

The puzzles are intuitive, as they always are in Gabriel Knight game, but not easy. There is no trying to use towel with a fish to try and accomplish your next task. I also loved the non-inventory puzzles with Grace which did involve some creative thinking.

The game has its usual installation troubles on XP as with all other Sierra games. But I dont blame them, the game wasn't designed for XP but it still works on it. So here is the tip: When the installer asks you that it wants to run its tests before installing, do *not* run the tests. They will fail. And you will have to restart your computer in order to try again. The game will install, even if you dont run the tests.

"Baffled By Reviews"
I purchased this game after having read the several positive rewiews others had written for "Gabriel Knight 3." I'm not sure if the majority of reviewers are fans of the books themselves and therefore are fans of the game. (And possibly, for those reviewers who have read the books, it may have given them information needed to determine character direction.) I found myself aimlessly searching for items, with no hint of an idea to what the goals were in order to complete one time slot, yes... the game is "leveled" in time slots, and begin another. Hours of aggrivating gameplay, searching over and over the same locations, musing on whom or what I had forgotten in order to progress. Well, after hours of prolonged irritation, I finally logged on to a GK3 walkthrough site and learned that I HAD already collected all the items required, and HAD already spoken or eavesdropped to all the characters needed. In fact there seems to be an order to which things must be done. (With absolutely no indication, during gameplay, as to what order that may be.) The walkthrough insisted I needed to return to a certain location to progress to the next level. Ironically this "location" is exactly where I had last saved the game. So, knowing this, I took an enjoyable walk around the same room for awhile, like I had several times before, when the game finally decided that I have had enough BS and loaded the next level. (A huge step, I had just completed the first time slot.)
Besides the aggrivating gameplay there are many more negative perks to look foreward too:
-Annoying main character. (He sounds like a southerner hopped up on a mixture of an aphrodisiac and crack.) If there were a way to kill him I would have.
-Annoying supporting characters.
-Horrible graphics. (Outdated.)
-Storyline? What storyline? (Didn't read the book.)
This game will take it's place, without being completed, among my other "worth while" games and collect dust.

 

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"Disappointing", "Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned" is the third installment of the Gabriel Knight games, a series of adventure games about the roguish detective/writer, Gabriel Knight. Gabriel and his companion, Grace, have been asked by Prince James of Albany to investigate a series of mysterious attacks by so-called "night visitors." When the son of Prince James is kidnapped, Gabriel pursues the night visitors to Rennes le Chateau, where he begins piecing together a mystery relating to the Holy Grail.

Despite the marketing, this game is not about vampires. Vampires have a token appearance in the game, but never command center stage, as did the voodoo hounfor in "Sins of the Fathers" or the werewolves in "The Beast Within." Gabriel and Grace make no attempt to uncover the true nature of vampires, or to research lore on vampires. Although the vampires do murder three people during the course of the game, their victims are chosen at random and have nothing to do with the main plot.

A large part of the charm of the first two Gabriel Knight installments was in the relationships which Gabriel formed with the villains. Through these relationships, the player could not help but sympathize with the villain, and thus the villain was transformed into more of a human and less of a monster. However, in "Blood of the Sacred," Gabriel's only interaction with the villain is through a single, cheesy interview, which does nothing to endear the villain to the player.

The roles that Gabriel and Grace play in this mystery are fairly futile. Gabriel spends his time snooping into the identities of members of a treasure-hunter tour group staying at his hotel, but what he uncovers amounts to nothing more than a red herring. Grace spends her time researching the mystery of Rennes le Chateau, but all her research is rendered superfluous by the presence of a perplexing ally who has known the answer to this mystery for centuries.

The actions of this perplexing ally and his polar opposite --- the vampire leader --- are insupportable. The ally leaves hints about the mystery of Rennes le Chateau in broad daylight and expects Grace (and not the other treasure hunters from the tour group) to find them. However, he could have revealed the mystery to Grace in its entirety on day 1, instead of putting the kidnapped child at risk for an additional 48 hours. And in the end, he simply tells Grace the mystery in its entirety anyway.

Meanwhile, the vampire leader fails to achieve the goals of centuries of scheming, because he chooses to refrain from action for two days after the kidnapping of the child. The only reason given for his decision to delay action is that he wants to savor his victory.

The game would have been much better had it been purely focussed on the Holy Grail. The kidnapping and vampires should have been omitted, replaced with a race against the Vatican to uncover the mystery of Rennes le Chateau. Since Gabriel is portrayed more than once as reluctantly Catholic, this conflict would have had many opportunities for character development.

All in all, the game was a disappointing installment in the series, despite an improved interface and the return of Tim Curry as the voice of Gabriel Knight.

"An extremely ambitious undertaking", From it's solid 3d presentation, to it's immersive free roaming gameplay, to it's unique integrated puzzles, GK3 ups the ante for adventure games on this release..The experience is quite an immersive one, although I found some of the puzzles too tedious and actually got burnt out with the game for a while because of it....Probally my fault though, as the extremely high praise for this game makes me remember what it was like to once install a game that actually attempted to be an experience, rather then a mere game.

"One of the Best!", If you like real mystery and a game with a real story line this is the game for you. If you have played the previous Gabriel Knight stories it is easier to get some of the jokes and little things in the plotline mean more but it is not necessary to play the previous games. If you liked the Di Vinci Code you must play this game. The way the game merges reality with fantasy is amazing and the secrets keep you entralled. Buy this game! You will not regret it.

"Wonderful story and characters", I was sorry to end the game -- you get very attached to the characters, and the historical background is fascinating. I liked the video in GK2 and would have to say that the villain there doesn't have an emotional equivalent here, but Grace gets to play an even more important role. Music is great, and there are lots of Easter eggs and humor as well.

If you are a religious Christian, you may not want to buy the game; the ending has the potential to offend.

I am truly sorry that GK4 appears to be unlikely, I would by it in a heartbeat.

"Bloody Good Game", Gabriel Knight has been a highlight of the Sierra titles since the first game came out years ago. BotS, BotD continues that tradition in a fully rendered 3-D environment that lets the player become immersed in the scenes of the crimes that truly adds to the fun of being an investigator of the paranormal, like a mix between CSI and The X-Files. Though the puzzles can be weird at times (getting cat hair with scotch tape to make a fake moustache), and the locals French accents get annoying, you'll love the story, adore the characters, and start to hope that Gabriel Knight 4 comes out very soon.



 
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"A sophisticated, sexy story that stands by itself", If you play this game, play it for the story and the great characters. This time, Gabriel is trying to find a kidnapper and his search leads him to Rennes Le chateau, a historical French village formerly famous for the Templar Knights, and rumored to have hidden treasure that could possibly include the holy grail itself.
This game makes you think and there are a lot of puzzles to solve, even though some of them are sort of absurd and off the wall. (The cat and the hole in the wall). Tim Curry is back and doing the Gabriel voice over with an obnoxious southern accent that is somehow not overly annoying, and rather amusing at times. Gabriel is no where near as nice looking as he was in the second installment, which is a damn shame, but oh well. He is actually rather poorly illustrated at times. At least he hasn't changed much. He does come off cockier in this installment than he was in the previous one, or maybe that is just Tim Curry hamming it up as well. Also, Detective Morley from the first game is back, and this also leads to some hilarious situations. There's something not quite right about watching two akwardly proportioned computer game characters leering over the attractive women staying at the hotel.
On the plus side, Grace is back and you do get to play her in alternating chapters. She is once again the behind the scenes researcher but her work this time around is not as tiresome as it was in "The Beast Within". Less museums this time, and Grace interacts more freely with the suspects. The chemistry between Gabriel and Grace is top notch and realistic and it adds a lot to the story.
I was very disappointed when I heard that Sierra would not be making a fourth one. This is one of the few games that is so well thought out that the gameplay supports a genuinely interesting and exciting story and not the other way around. The dialogue is not filled with just pointless, repetitious conversations as a means of filling the time between when you find that next key to unlock that next hidden door that will take you to key world number 3.

"a great game but a incomplete ending", I loved all the games in the gabriel knight series, each one was suspensful with lots of great gameplay interactions. the only problem i had with blood of the sacred,blood of the damned was the unconcluded ending regarding gabriel and grace. i've been hoping for a 4th game for a closure about their relationship. I've always felt the couple should have been together from the start but this games ending left me most dissapointed. Hopefully there will be another gabriel knight game soon!

"Sierra come back", I grew up with Sierra, and they had the talent for creating enchanting, dangerous worlds and the sense of danger kept me playing, the attitude and the emotion that the character's experienced made me feel like I was there and kept me playing. I've seen a lot of people out there throwing out the title, "the last great adventure game" and I would have to bestow that title on this game. I've played Syberia and The Longest Journey, both of which are I suppose, entertaining, but they lack the raw emotion that sierra games had for me. This game, despite all of it's flaws with the interface, and the laughable three-d versions of Gabriel and Grace, kept up that tradition for me. I remember getting up in the middle of the night to play it because I had to know what was going to happen next. It's a good story, and very well told, however controversial. It is more than just point and click. It boasts strong ideas and strong opinions that stay with you after you are finished.

"Not for the klutzy", I gave up in chapter one. I was completely unable to do anything except eventually get Gabriel out of doors where I promply got turned around and lost. I never made it any further due to sheer frustration.

I loved the first 2 games. The first was cartoony but really interesting and logical. The second had a really swoony Gabriel,a great plot, beautiful scenery and camera work. The only problem there was the werewolf scene near the end. The game froze up every time I used the talisman and I could not finish.

Never the less, I looked forward to the 3rd part. I am not coordianated enough to be anything but dizzy in this format. However, I suspect that for those who can use the 3d format that they will love the game. Just not for us oldfashioned non-tech people.

"Poor entry in the GK series", I loved the first two Gabriel Knight games ("Sins of the Father" and "The Beast Within"). They were creepy, well-researched, and had great atmosphere.

Well, "Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned" had great potential -- Rennes-le-Chateau and vampires! Neat! But poor gameplay really squandered that potential.

To give you an example of what I mean, one of the puzzles involves getting a vehicle so Gabriel can get from one place to another. A perfectly good motor scooter (I think; it's been a while) is available. But noooooo ... Gabriel refuses to ride something so wussy. He has to have a big motorcycle. So that's the puzzle -- getting the selfish jerk a motorcycle to ride.

Let me get this straight. He's a detective trying to solve a case, but he's going to waste time finding a cooler ride?

That was the point where I threw the game out the window, so I can't comment on how it ends, unfortunately. The voice acting was pretty lame; I don't know who told Tim Curry he could do a New Orleans accent, but he can't.

Now that [the price has dropped], it's worth trying if you're really into Gabriel Knight. Otherwise, there are much better adventure games out there that are also dirt cheap. Try one of them.

 
 
 

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