Pleurghburg: Dark Ages
Pleurghburg: Dark Ages is a crime investigation game made by GASPOP software. It is the winner of many of the first AGS Awards, Pleughburg is famous for many things:
- Being very hard to spell
- Even harder to pronounce
- A very good game
- The infamous "keys down the back of the sofa" puzzle
- Being cited as an example of a good adventure game depite having not-so-hot graphics
- One of the longest-awaited sequels to an AGS game of all time which is still to arrive...
Plot
The story starts in a city called Pleurghburg and set in the very near future, where the city replaced the ordinary police with the Police detective agency (PDA), that contains only detectives to solve crimes, and so crime rate dropped 50%.
The main character, Jake McUrk, is a PDA Investigator, is sent by his boss one day to investigate reported screams in the morgue. Convinced that it's a false alarm, Jake was unaware that he'll be investigating horrible murders made by a serial killer and some evidences indicate the involvement of a secret organization.
Te game lies in a size of 5,2 MB and has four possible endings
Rstings and Reviews
The game was rated "Mature" because of the offensive language and the extreme graphic violence represented in the murdered victims. It didn't contain nude scenes.
It was reviewed in Abandonia Reloaded by editor DeathDude, and gave commendation to story and music, and gave it 5/5 score.[1]
references
| AGS Awards for Pleurghburg: Dark Ages | ||
|---|---|---|
| Inaugural | Best Game
in the year 2001 |
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| Inaugural | Best Gameplay
in the year 2001 |
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| Inaugural | Best Story
in the year 2001 |
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| Inaugural | Best Progamming
in the year 2001 |
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| Inaugural | Best Music
in the year 2001 |
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