Curtis Hewitt is a young adventurer and photographer who finds himself caught in a vortex that sends him to the heart of the lost city of Atlantis. Although Atlantis Evolution is played from a first-person perspective, the game puts a great deal of focus on its main character, who is seen in cutscenes and dialog screens. Although Atlantis is now a tried-and-true adventure locale, Atlantis Evolution puts enough of a spin to it for me to take note and pay attention.įirst off, I should note that during our visit to their booth at E3, The Adventure Company emphasized that Atlantis Evolution is not a puzzle-heavy game like Schizm or Aura: Fate of the Ages-or the old Atlantis games, for that matter. For a while there were so many Egypt, Aztec or Atlantis games coming out that it felt like these stories were being force-fed to the adventure community. Developed by Cryo, they were released during a time period when most commercial adventures looked like carbon copies of each other. They just weren't very special or unique. The Atlantis games were never bad games, per se, and clearly they were popular, selling over a million copies worldwide combined. And after seeing this game in action at E3, I think that goal has been achieved in every positive sense. As the name already hints, Atlantis Evolution is meant to be a reinvention of the previous DreamCatcher-published Atlantis trilogy, putting the past installments behind it. Well, I'm not going to complain this time.

How many times have we, and others, complained about the insufferable stream of Egypt and Atlantis-themed adventure games released in the last few years? Sometimes it seems that when developers run out of original ideas, they flee to the scenarios that they know best.

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