Doctor Who: The Adventure Games -- The Gunpowder Plot -- A Review by Becky

Who is Doctor Who? And what would happen if the Doctor happened to meet the notoriously explosive Guy Fawkes?

Doctor Who: The Adventure Games -- The Gunpowder Plot

Thanks for an interesting review! I've always liked Doctor Who but I'm also dubious about games produced to appeal to a fan base of a TV series.

I was a little put off by the timed sequences but 'put on' again by the fact that it could be downloaded for free by UK residents

So downloading at the mo - no excuse not to at least try!

Chrissie -- you will undoubtedly be better at the timed sequences than I was! I'm curious as to what you think of the game after you've been playing in a bit.

Thanks for the interesting read Becky!

Ana

Thanks for that review, Becky !!

But Dr Who AND timed sequences ??

Definitely not for me. I dislike both intensely

Thanks Becky. As a UK resident and massive Doctor Who fan, I played this the day it came out. It is easily the best of the series. But you are right, some will have difficulty with the stealth/timed parts. I found them easy, usually took me only one or two failed attempts before I realised what it was I was being asked to do. Once 'the penny drops' you have a lot more time than you think. Just another type of puzzle I guess. To be fair, it's the kind of thing that happens in the TV show so they're not just putting it in there to be annoying! Would be nice if you could bypass the stealth bits with a cutscene, though, for those who find it a showstopper.

Should be interesting. I loved the old Tom Baker doctor. Thanks Becky!

Thanks for the link Becky. I've always loved the Dr. Who series. The whole lot, right from the beginning were replayed in Australia the year before last (from memory), I'd already seen most of them, just the odd one or two from right at the beginning that we'd missed. We used to watch when our son and later our daughter were small in New Zealand very many years ago (guess that dates me! ) but I've never played the games because most of the reviews didn't exactly give them a glowing report.

However, after reading your review of the latest game I'm rather tempted but not at all sure about the creeping around bits.

What I was wondering is, are they any harder than the action bits (lots of them! LOL) in Fahrenheit? That's the only so-called adventure game I've played that I guess should have been in an Action category, but found with perserverence it was worth the struggle, so if this Dr. Who game isn't any harder than that, then I guess it would be worth downloading.

Hi JoAJ -- I haven't played Fahrenheit, but I've read the reviews. Fahrenheit is much more difficult action-wise than The Gunpowder Plot. If you've trained your reflexes on Fahrenheit, the creeping in Gunpowder should be almost easy, I would think.

Thanks Becky, guess it's worth a try anyway, particularly seeing it's certainly not an expensive game, mind you, it's a good few years since I played Fahrenheit and that's a game that took me many tries to get through each action part.

Come back and tell us what you think! I'm curious to know if you sail through the timed sequences. (I do happen to be particularly terribel at them.)

Hi, I did buy the game, must say though that I couldn't even begin to play it yesterday. They're supposed to send an Activation Code - but all I got was a blank email until I actually joined Legacy International, which I really hadn't wanted to do but then I was able to ask on their Technical Help forum for the code which I received this morning.

Eventually got the game loaded etc (took forever too!!)and started to play the game, only one problem and that is that I can move around, that is walk and run, turn right/left and so on but I haven't been able to find out how to drop down or jump up. In the Control menu it just shows which keys to use, as I mentioned, about looking, walking etc. but nothing at all about jumping up or down. So..would you mind letting me know how to do these things, and maybe if you have to shoot etc. which keys you use to do that as well.

Thanks,
Jo.

JoAJ -- as far as I know, there isn't a separate key for jumping or climbing -- when you need to do those actions, you position your body near the obstacle or gap and a "climb" command appears on screen and you just click with the left mouse and the player character climbs. (I don't remember jumping at all, off-hand.)

When you are doing stealth sequences, the player character automatically squats or drops down -- in fact, that's how you know that a stealth sequence is beginning.

There is a shooting portion while playing Rory, but you're only using a slingshot type of weapon, and once you get close enough to use it, you'll see a command and you click to use it automatically -- I discovered after some experimentation that, just for this item, you don't even have to get it out of the inventory in order to use it.

thanks so much Becky, I'll try that later on. Obviously I couldn't have been in the right place to get the climb or jump command.

Jo.

Positioning your body in the right place is one of the significant challenges in this game. If you've played action games, you probably have a sense of how to do it that's intuitive. If you haven't played action games, you'll be using more trial and error.