ALIDA
Genre: Graphic adventure
Format: Mac
Description:
This atmospheric graphical adventure is set on Alida, a guitar-shaped island theme park created by a young and wildly successful band. But when money woes and paranoia set in, the band splits up, each claiming different areas of the park, and where each devise strange and elaborate systems to protect their respective remaining wealth. Each member grows increasingly isolated and all eventually abandon Alida. Several years later the band’s manager suggests the band get together on the island. Soon thereafter band member Arin leaves for Alida and is not heard from again. Now, his wife, Julia, sends you to Alida to find Arin and bring him home.
" Alida is ten miles out at sea. It's been deserted for fifteen years... ...My husband Arin left for Alida a week ago and I haven't heard anything from him since... ...Arin was suspicious of things before he left, I should not have let him go... ...We're going to secretly drop you off on the western side of Alida where you'll have access to most of the island... ...Return my husband home to me." - Julia
" Alida... a siren of the sea? No. We were so overwhelmed by our success. We could do anything and we had the money to do it... ...We were four young men that had invented a new wave of music that proved so popular that our CD sales had broken all previous records by 200%... ...How do you follow that? I could make it easy on myself and blame Juno, but if it wasn't Alida, it would've been something else just as crazy... ...Juno had an excited gaze in his eyes, 'what about a guitar... a monstrous guitar rising from the sea?' We all fell into Juno's abyss, like a black hole, we got too close and couldn't turn back... ...As Juno was describing it we could visualise the monolith in our minds... the eighth wonder of the world... our very own creation." - Arin
" I'm writing to you in the hope that we can resolve the problems we've had in the past and come up with some working solutions regarding Alida... ...I've also written to the others and waiting on replies. I never apologized for the covert deals I had in place with our money. I know now that it was wrong... ...I feel that enough time has passed, the connections to past dealings would be difficult to trace... ...The assets we locked away in the main vault should be distributed among us. I suggest we meet on Alida and discuss the situation... ...Perhaps we can also talk about resurrecting the island and operating it as you and the others intended." - Kivas
Features:
Alida is a point and click interactive graphical adventure game. The story centres around four young men in the band Alida that attained phenomenal success with their first CD release. Loads of money coupled with wild imagination resulted in construction of "Alida" - the theme park.
It's an unusual place - a giant guitar 330 metres long!
But these guys didn't stop there - the guitar can actually be played (assisted by machinery); the internal workings of the guitar can be accessed and manipulated (machine heads, switch, pots etc..)
As Alida was nearing completion things got complicated, their popularity was waning and money stopped coming in. Distrust set in. Each of the band members claimed different areas of Alida for themselves where they devised weird and elaborate systems to protect their wealth. They retracted from each other finally leaving Alida uninhabited. Fifteen years later one of the guys is missing on Alida...
Five years in the making, the Alida world will captivate you with meticulous graphics, unique locations, intriguing puzzles, bizarre transportation machines, ornate objects, electronic imagery, tactile contraptions, massive constructions, animated natural elements and original music score.
- Imaginative and beautifully rendered 3D environments
- Engaging puzzles ranging from simple to complex
- Mesmerizing audio
- Story of intrigue and mystery
Systemrequirements:
Mac: G3/400 or higher, 32 MB RAM, OSX, 16 Bit Display with 640x480, QuickTime 5
Downloads:
Mac: no downloads available
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