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Blackwell Unbound

by Dave Gilbert

This is a commercial game.

File size: 0.2 MB
Downloaded: 4,619 times

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Genres:

Contemporary, Investigative, Original

Release Date:

1 Nov 2007

AGS Panel Rating:

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Player Rating:

Website:

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Play length:

Demo

Content advisory:

Occasional, mild
Sex: Suggestive dialog

Suggestive dialog
Violence: Strong

Strong

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8 people have rated this game so far:

Visual:

80%

Immersion:

88%

Puzzles & Pacing:

88%

Overall Enjoyment:

90%

About this game

The year is 1973. The sound of a lone, ethereal saxophone drifts over the Roosevelt Island promenade, while a series of accidents plague a midtown construction site. The citizens of Manhattan take no notice of these events, let alone think they are connected.

Embittered medium Lauren Blackwell and her spirit guide Joey Mallone are the only ones who believe that there is anything strange going on, and they are the only ones who can stop an enigmatic killer from striking again…

Price: $9.99 (digital download) or $20.00 (CD-ROM)

See the people who made this game and any other games they've worked on >>

Dave Gilbert

Design, coding, writing

Dave Gilbert has worked on 14 other games: (see them >>)

The Ivy

Sprite animation and background art

The Ivy has worked on 5 other games: (see them >>)

thomasregin

Music

thomasregin has worked on 1 other games: (see them >>)

AGS Awards

Won, Best Music 2007

Nominated, Best Original Story 2007

AGS Panel Review

"A strong follow-up (actually a prequel) to Blackwell Legacy with some substantial gameplay improvements (you can now control two characters) at the cost of some graphic quality. The trade-off is well worth it."

3 people commented on this game (newest first):

Great writing and music. Once again, I was intrigued how will the story develop and even if I was a little let down by the ending, the game sucked me right in. Graphic wise, shame the author gave up portrait-style dialogs, I liked them very much in the first game. I guess time for Episode 3, here we go!:)

2013-05-21 10:57:39 by Gribbler

WHERE CAN I GET HIS LAUNDRY LIST!?
HOW MUCH IS IT!?
I NEEEEEED HIS LAUNDRY LIST!
AAAAAARRRGH!

This was a good game, a great game and the re-playability...well it's there. (commenting on the full game, not Demo as I have never played the demo)

2008-01-14 06:44:56 by vertigo addict (vertigoaddict)

There is only one thing that can be said here, I think...

Dave Gilbert has reached the stage where he could publish his laundry list and he would get a bestseller.

And you know why?

Because even his laundry list is bound to be excellently written.

This is the first Gilbert game to actually play more like a game than an interactive story, losing none of the qualities of the previous Blackwell game. Great graphics (though not quite as great as Legacy), great soundtrack, and - the best thing - quality actors reading quality lines. The Blackwell series is the closest thing the indie scene has to a Gabriel Knight series - and we're extremely welcome for it!

2008-01-14 00:55:57 by Rui "Trovatore" Pires (redruM)

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