Adam's Venture Episode 3: Revelations Steam Charts & Stats

Episode 3 has the same graphics and gameplay mechanics as the first two episodes. Graphics are good for it's time and gameplay mechanics are a little awkward with only keyboard controls available. Storyline is decent with a little bit of humour. This episode was a little longer than the last episode and offers more complex puzzles than the first two puzzles.

Third and final episode of this series. Overall, good series. The games in the series were consistent and had an overarching storyline, though it's not necessary to follow to play the game. Good fun for a good price.

The main character is in incredibly annoying. I think they were trying to go for campy, but they failed. I'm sure other people would have liked it, but it just wasn't my cup of tea. Because of what had happened in the first game, I expected big things with this series, but this third game gave a very tepid conclusion for this series. And it boggles my mind as to how they think it is perfectly natural that the female character would be romantically interested in the main character. The graphics for the game is pretty inconsistent. Somehow, it always loads the low textures and after a second, it will finally load the high textures. Of course the game has a tendency of always loading the low textures until the character you are controlling is suddenly close by. And if the character moves too far away, it then loads the low textures again. I don't know why it does, none of the other games that I play does this. So I just have to assume it is a software issue. Gameplay wise, it is a very simple point and click adventure. Of course, the game doesn't support the mouse at all, so point and click isn't a good comparison. Play this game with a controller, because the game with the keyboard is very annoying. Even then, the controller just makes it tolerable. The puzzles themselves are very simplistic and basic, but sometimes a few puzzles are incredibly difficult. If you are wanting a simple quick game, this is it. Otherwise, I wouldn't bother with this game.

Adam's Venture is a simple puzzle adventure game that has an Uncharted feel, yet has no action and has very repetitive puzzles. The game is broken up into 3 episodes, where each episode is about 90 minutes long. The character's movement is glitchy which can cause some issues during some platforming sequences. The graphics and voice acting are OK, however if you're looking for an adventure game you should look towards games made by TellTale or LucasArts.

TL;DR: Nice conclusion of Adam's Venture series of puzzle adventures. Let me start by informing you that you should really be looking at Episodes 1 and 2 first or else you'll probably be rather confused of the plot and its twists in this one, because Episode 2 ended in a tense cliffhanger. Nevertheless, I'll keep this review free of any significant spoilers. Series puts you in the boots of Adam Venture, an adventurer-archaeologist of less renown than he thinks. However, he and his father's research group have made an interesting archaeological lead and got basically unlimited funds from a suspicious Big Corporation to go about it. While in Episode 1 and 2 you were investigating the fruits and twigs of this arrangement, Episode 3 begins by showing how it all actually started before rolling you back to resolve the cliffhanger. Quite a nice way to build the pace towards the climactic ending, really. Episode 3 has by far the most difficult puzzles of the series, which is only a good thing. Especially the lock puzzle (however bizarre it is to have it there in the first place) of the beginning was deliciously challenging to the point of being frustrating. It took me several hours of trying to solve the multi-linear equation I devised to model it until I saw the simplicity behind it. Why'd father have to lock the door with such an elaborate design I can only account to his eccentricities. In effect the puzzle difficulty is stepped up (still a good thing) but for many of them their placement makes less sense than in Episode 2. To list a few examples defusing an explosive makes sense (and it's cool!) as does fixing a windmill or car, but a logic puzzle door lock does not, several labyrinths on the way out of tomb make even less sense (to me anyway) and quite frankly a puzzle of arranging ladders to get up a bookshelf just feels forced. Graphics are fine but the dynamic shadow issue of characters has bugged the series all the way from Episode 1. So characters have a shadow but it looks [i]wrong[/i] because the shadows of other objects behave differently. For instance, standing on a rock might show Adam's shadow but not the rock's: effectively Adam's shadow hangs on the ground, starting from nothing like he was levitating in mid-air. This becomes relevant again in few instances in Episode 3 where you have to do some basic 3D platforming and assess where you are jumping. There's not much of it but combined with the fixed camera angle it's moderately annoying. If you already played Episode 1 and 2 you should know what to expect from Episode 3. It's good enough to enjoy but not a classic-worth puzzle adventure. After the cliffhanger of Episode 2 it is fairly obvious to an average player how the story unfolds. Curiously enough they have managed to tie the Bible-themed subtitle to the plot even in the conclusion chapter in both of its meanings. As a single game, Episode 3 is nice but it wouldn't make right to regard it separately of the series. The series itself has an interesting story, annoying but not totally unlikable stereotypical characters and some very nice puzzles that make you feel clever if you solve them yourself. My game time with the series was about 2.5 to 3 hours per game - this third one took 3.5 hours, out of which about 1 hour was overthinking the lock puzzle while in-game. That makes it a shortish series. I'd recommend getting all of it with [url=http://store.steampowered.com/sub/15249/]The Complete Pack[/url] on sale (like this week it's -75% / 3.25 €) as it is already several years old series and it shows.

To Play...or Not to Play...that is the question. I'm guessing that most people who are looking at this game have already played through the other two games of the series...and for that group of folks, I'd go ahead and say that this game is probably worth a play. It's the best game out of the three and brings the little journey to a bit of an end. However, for anybody who hasn't played through the other games, I'd just say to stay away from this and the series in general. It's a bit bland, has simplistic gameplay, and unengaging characters and story.

I'm mildly sad to give this a thumbs-down after recommending the first game as a simple but engaging game. The franchise just got worse through the trilogy and the third game was just tedious. It wasn't that the dialogue is cheezy (it was from the very first game) or that the controls are clunky (that hasn't changed either), but that the puzzles seemed to me to be FAR more tedious and the plot completely fell apart. The first one kept some Indiana Jones flair going, which was what appealed to me as a HUGE fan of the Indy franchise, but they just couldn't, in my opinion, keep momentum to the end of the trilogy. The fact that there is not one fully likeable character throughout the whole series doesn't help. Adam is the best of the lot because he is sometimes genuinely funny, but he also comes out with some crap that makes me cringe. Evelyn just does not come off right to me; its better in this game than the second, but she comes off as a bitchy know-it-all throughout the series. And the villains are just great big bundles of overused plot devices. I just can't, in good conscience, recommend this one, especially with a meager 100 minute play time.

If, after playing the previous two games, you still enjoy this franchise(?), then disregard my opinion, and go ahead and buy this one, since out of the three, it is by far the best. As with the previous entries, Adam's Venture Episode 3: Revelations is an adventure-platformer-puzzle game, where you wrestle with clunky controls, trying to solve piss easy puzzles and listen to badly written dialogue. The game once again looks, if not for the shoddy animation and lip syncing, mostly passable, due to UE3's still impressive lighting and shading which masks the terrible texturing. As for the story, well, prepare for one of the most cliched stories ever, only lifted up by the flashback sequences which are easily the best parts of the game. the puzzles take some time to actually complete and it doesnt delve into the horribly cliched "oh no, evil guy wants to use sacred artifact to rule the world" story, and focuses on Adam, Eve, and their past. Gameplay though does take away from the experience, since the controls are absolute shite. (like seriously, why does the 1996 Tomb Raider have better platforming controls that this piece of excrement?). Unless you are the biggest fan of Adam's Venture and are dying to see what happens to that annoying prick, Stay away from this game.

If you've made it to the third installment, you already know what you're in for. I have to admit, the jokes got better as the series progressed. The puzzles in this game weren't more challenging as much as they were time consuming - that being said I beat the game completely in 1.5 hours so you might want to wait until it's on sale than pay full price for at most 3 hours of gameplay. This is the shortest game in the series, but it gives a nice ending. I enjoyed the graphics in this one as well, and I recommend it to very casual gamers, maybe younger kids, and people trying to get 100% Acheivements. Decent series, decent ending. Sure I recommend it.

Adam's Venture is a simplistic puzzle adventure game. This third episode can be completed in roughly 2 hours. The puzzles get slightly tougher in this one, but it's the same gameplay as the first couple episodes. Voice acting and the animations are still reasonable. Taking the three episodes as a whole, the game offers a mildly engaging storyline, kind of like an Indiana Jones type of movie--although the ending is pretty cheesy. I found no obvious reason to break the game up into three separate installers other than to charge more money for the entire product. By separating them, each individual chapter leaves a feeling of "that's it?"