Posted July 25, 2012
Again, I'm a bit let down that GOG doesn't sell the graphically best version of a game. I own a DVD version of Amerzone. I haven't been able to run it since it seems to require hardware Mpeg2-support, but playing the movie files in a separate player shows drastically improved graphics. Really a night and day difference. Tried to convert the mpeg2 files of the DVD version to uncompressed smacker files and replace the original ugly smacker movies in the CD/GOG versions but the game refused to play them... But surely the GOG team should be able to make something like that work.
The recently released Mac version of Amerzone, also published by Anuman, has the DVD-quality movies, but unfortunately they have made some changes to the gameplay that I did not really like. Some puzzles are watered down and there is an "always on" hotspot highlighter that makes an already quite easy game too easy. Felt much too lightweight and too far from the original experience.
The recently released Mac version of Amerzone, also published by Anuman, has the DVD-quality movies, but unfortunately they have made some changes to the gameplay that I did not really like. Some puzzles are watered down and there is an "always on" hotspot highlighter that makes an already quite easy game too easy. Felt much too lightweight and too far from the original experience.