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The Best Man

Author:Rob Menke
Released:2000
Review:

You're on your way to a friend's wedding when terrorists strike. Not all of the puzzles make a lot of sense, due to technical and game design problems, and the adaptiveness of the hint menu doesn't work very well--it's impossible to read some of the hints until you've already failed to solve the problem (and, often, died as a result) in a given game. Some clever multiple-solution puzzles, though, and generally reasonably solid in an action-movie sort of way (i.e., action-movie suspensions of disbelief are often necessary). The PDF documentation is quite professional-looking.

Rating: ****

Reviewed by Duncan Stevens (01 Mar 2001)

Competitions/
Awards:
15th place, rec.arts.int-fiction competition 2000
Play Online:Play it at ifiction.org
Downloads:
bestman.z5 (128.50 KB)
Z-code 5 executable (version: Release 1)
bmanmap.pdf (27.23 KB)
Map in PDF format (includes spoilers)
bmanpkg.pdf (216.82 KB)
PDF documentation file (not necessary to complete game, but helpful)
readme.txt (561 bytes)
author's notes


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