#Madness interactive full screen download professional

Roland uses text, digital color paintings, animation, QuickTime video, professional 'radio theatre' narration, hypertextual links and a complete original soundtrack to transport you to the world of Charlemagne's France.Д«illed as 'the world's first interactive multimedia novel,' Madness of Roland brilliantly fulfills the latter half of its claim (i.e.

Each character tells their own, often contradictory, version of the story. Based on the legend of the Paladin Roland, a knight in the service of Charlemagne, the tale of Madness of Roland is told from multiple points of view which you can select at will. It's an art film whose commercial value arises from the novelty of the medium. вЂњmultimedia novelвЂќ) while dismally failing the first (i.e. Replay Value: Once you have finished the novel, there is very little reason to go back and listen again.Д«illed as 'the world's first interactive multimedia novel,' this brilliantly fulfills the latter half of its claim (i.e. Once it is turned down, it is easy to hear everything that is being said.Д®njoyment: Those who do not enjoy reading or listening to plays will derive much less pleasure out of the game. Graphics: The text part is not bad, but the Quicktime movies look fuzzy and out of focus. While not exactly a game per se, this CD-Rom can still provide a great deal of enjoyment to players. However, for those people who enjoy medieval history and the mythological accounts of the Knights of Charlemagne, this CD-Rom will bring much enjoyment, and a chance to listen to a play that could not be put on by any stage company due to the quickly changing locales and the many characters given voice (such as the sword Durendal and a thief turned into a rat named Baji). In this, it is much more like a play than a game. In some of these player-directed choices, the player is given the chance to recieve all the data, in some, s/he is not.Дespite the number of choices that are given to the player in the story, the outcome is the same in the end, which may make some players feel cheated by the whole experience. Talking with Charlemagne, for instance, he asks 'Excuse me, but what were we discussing again?' and a list of choices come up. In addition, some of the text sections require the player to make a choice, which determines the outcome of the next page.

Some of these movies are also shown before the text, and some contain brief nudity. In the text portions of the program, several icons lead to quotes or brief movies illustrating some action in the story or illustrating action not shown in the primary story. The main story is in text, which can either be read by the player, read by the player with music in the background, or presented as dramatic text, using the voices contained in the program. The Madness of Roland is a strange mix of book, play and game.