There have been many graphical adventure games designed throughout the years, but none like Zak McKracken. For when the game was created in was designed to be a depiction of the future. It is quite amusing playing the game and seeing how they thought things were going to be designed in 1997.
During the game you will follow the life of Zak who is a writer, Annie Larris who is a freelance scientist, Melissa China and Bennett who are Yale University students. These characters will all be attempting to prevent the alien Caponians who are trying to reduce the intelligence of everyone on planet Earth with the use of dial tones.
There have been many graphical adventure games designed throughout the years, but none like Zak McKracken. For when the game was created in was designed to be a depiction of the future. It is quite amusing playing the game and seeing how they thought things were going to be designed in 1997.
During the game you will follow the life of Zak who is a writer, Annie Larris who is a freelance scientist, Melissa China and Bennett who are Yale University students. These characters will all be attempting to prevent the alien Caponians who are trying to reduce the intelligence of everyone on planet Earth with the use of dial tones. There has been another alien race that left the mechanical item
on Earth and all you will need to do is reassemble it and start it up to repulse the Caponians. All the parts for this mechanical item have been scattered around earth and mars meaning you will have a lot of travelling to do. There are many places that are viewed throughout the game that are prime popularity places such as the pyramids of Egypt and Mexico, and eventually the face on Mars. There is so much to the design of the game that make the plot of this game so diverse and exciting.
Zak McKracken is surely a game with a lot of thought placed into the overall design. With the game being viewed in a third person perspective you will get a great view point of all the occurrences taking place. Even though the task that you are attempting to complete can be somewhat amusing, there is no possible way you will find yourself getting sick of the outrageous searches you will take part in. As long as you have all the required codes you will complete this game in no time. Its time to take on a new adventure and experience the world of Zak McKracken, just beware you may find yourself slowly loosing intelligence!
