Recommend some reality-based adventure games!

InCreator · Wed 11/04/2007 23:36:09

I found myself is sudden love with games that show some reality, especially special forces work or murder mystery.
I mean, serious games. Then again, I dislike ~~stupid~~ horror games, like Dark Seed, etc.

I played through all Police Quest series... (first two were quite good, despite ancient and painful interface)
I played Blue Force...
I played Cruise for a corpse
I played KGB (and still it's my most favourite adventure game ever)
I played some AGS games starring a cop... Larry vales (not quite the thing, but okay), Pleurghburg...

And I don't know what else is out there. I believe I've played all major adventure games until 1996.
Are there anything similar left worth to try? With point-n-click interface atleast?

It shouldn't be police game, but something along the lines - the less humor and more realism, the better.

Radiant · Wed 11/04/2007 23:40:45

Operation Stealth?

InCreator · Wed 11/04/2007 23:41:28

Tried that.
..and Sherlock Holmes: Case of Serrated Scalpel.
..and this weird sierra thing, Codename-ice-something
...and everything from Access software (Amazon, Countdown, Tex Murphy (eck!))

I could make a bot answering this... I've tried REALLY lot of games.
Maybe something newer or little-known? At point where adventure games got impopular till today, I don't know much about the scene. As much I *do* know, there's only games for kids. Like Syberia and Dreamfall and Runaway. And some gems, like Fahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy (stupid too, but interesting!) and CSI series (not so much adventure, eh).

Still, it's 10 unknown years (about 1997-2007). I'm quite sure that there's alot I have missed.

Rui 'Trovatore' Pires · Thu 12/04/2007 00:13:22

You've played Gabriel Knight, I gather? What about Black Dahlia? Neither is strictly realistic, but the background is heavily historical and quite well-done. Also, what about Sherlock Holmes: Case of the Rose Tattoo? Heart of China, maybe? The Laura Bow games? Have you tried Philip Marlowe, Private Eye? What about The Last Express? Am I still talking about the kind of games you're looking for, or did I drift away somewhat?

EDIT - And there's a text game called Conspiracy...
EDIT 2 - And a *very* old game called Proved Guilty (or something - NOT related to "Innocent Until Caught", look it up on Underdogs, from the makers of "SHadow President" I believe... or something).

Nostradamus · Thu 12/04/2007 08:28:26

Broken Sword series. It has some story elements of legend but it happens in the present world.

Also, Secret Files Tunguska.

GarageGothic · Thu 12/04/2007 08:55:39

Imho there hasn't been a single worthwhile adventuregame released since 1999. Don't waste your time on modern crap like Still Life, which I'm sure someone will recommend you.

Rather spend the time developing your own realistic game. I'm a Police Quest fan myself, and there really are way too few games in this genre. Another older game, which might interest you is Spycraft: The Great Game (and indeed it is). As for AGS games, The Shivah is pretty realistic and pretty damn good, albeit very short.

Hammerite · Thu 12/04/2007 11:11:40

broken sword 1 is one of the most realistic ags out there.

Chicky · Thu 12/04/2007 13:44:58

Most relistic ags? And i thought CJ's one was pretty real!

Broken sword is bloody ace though, i'm downloading it now actually as i've somehow lost BS1 and 2 in my spare room/dump.

Radiant · Thu 12/04/2007 17:04:46

Sorry, we only have Norm-based games

InCreator · Thu 12/04/2007 19:07:51

Broken sword is... eck... like a damn Disney cartoon. Not really the thing I'm looking for. Despite extremely good animation, I consider Police Quest 1 on AGI better game. And I have actually played BS too.

I'll try some other suggestions though. Spycraft looks really interesting one... though it's not adventure game I guess.

GarageGothic · Thu 12/04/2007 19:16:27

Well, it depends on your definition of adventure, but it is commonly classified as one (e.g. on wikipedia), even though there are no inventory puzzles and it has some short action (shoot-em-up) sequences. The puzzles are very original - such as analyzing an audio recording to track down the location or analyzing bullet trajectories - and it's certainly one of the better FMV games of the period.

Edit: Check out the screenshots at Mobygames, as well as their scan of the back of the box, to get a better impression of the gameplay style.