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No. 4. Chaos Happens, you know.

Playlogic has snapped-up adventure game Simon the Sorcerer 4: Chaos Happens, and will be publishing it all over the world in Q1 2008.

The idea is to point and click your way through Simon's latest quest, which revolves around a doppleganger of him causing all sorts of trouble, as well as a healthy wardrobe of brightly coloured dressing-gowns with stars and moons on them.

As a series, the games firmly plant tongue in cheek, and aim to bring about the same joy that old LucasArts adventures did back in the day - oh Monkey Island you long lost love, you.

This fourth instalment in the popular series is already out in Germany and has fallen under the scrutinising eye of Eurogamer.de, who felt it worthy of a meaningful 7/10.

Head over their review to find out more, presuming you can read German, of course.

About Simon the Sorcerer 4
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- Release date Q12008
- Publisher Playlogic International
- Developer RTL Enterprises
More about Simon the Sorcerer 4
- Simon the Sorcerer 4 Review
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DB2k #1 4 years ago

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Why don't you have someone to translate foreign reviews from some random "European" language into proper English?
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Darren #2 4 years ago

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I remember playing Simon the Sorcerer (or was it the sequel?) on the Amiga many years ago. It was very funny I thought and very British but it wasn't a patch on the superior Monkey Island series when it came to puzzles and storyline.
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space_ace #3 4 years ago

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looks like a meh-gical adventure
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moggsy #4 4 years ago

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A translation which should be good for a laugh...
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moggsy #5 4 years ago

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But no, his brother must sucking him after a fight over the TV remote control
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krudster #6 4 years ago

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Translating articles isn't cheap, or especially easy. It's so time consuming, it's actually more cost-effective to just pay someone to review it from scratch.
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moggsy #7 4 years ago

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Yeh, but you could just use Google to translate - it's bloody hilarious!
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krudster #8 4 years ago

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Certainly is!
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TheSnotGoblin #9 4 years ago

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Remember playing a demo of Simon the Sorcerer 2 off of a CU Amiga coverdisk. I took great pleasure in making the swampling cry.
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spliffhead #10 4 years ago

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Seeing as this is adventure game orientated, I'm going to jump off topic and post this (and probably wait for it to be deleted):

http://ww w.1pstart.com/tim-schafer-psych...

Edited by 1 at 15/10/07 @ 15:54
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L42yB #11 4 years ago

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"And while Simon just wanted to watch TV all the time ... But no, his brother must sucking him after a fight over the TV remote control at the head and pepper him violently in hibernation carry"

WTF!!! I'm guessing google didn't translate this very well... but can sum1 who speaks German tell me what this meant before it was translated? I can't even guess...

Edited by 1 at 15/10/07 @ 16:24
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L42yB #12 4 years ago

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"The story actually provides enough space for entertaining entertainment"

It just keeps getting better and better
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L42yB #13 4 years ago

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"There is, for example, a versifften Wolf, which is constantly under the table prostitute."

Ahahahahahahaha....ha I'm gonna start reading my reviews on Eurogamer.de just for a laugh from now on
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deaner #14 4 years ago

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Without Chris Barrie it'll be cack.

They should get Ron Gilbert to write. He's bored off his arse!
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smurphs #15 4 years ago

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The translation reminded me of Ogden's Nut Gone Flake. Beautiful in its transfripperyness.
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Guv #16 4 years ago

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oh. my. God!

Hun, bring me my fluffy puppy slippers!
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dllord #17 4 years ago

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STS on the amiga was the shit!
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AOFanboi #18 4 years ago

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Was it the StS or DiscWorld series that was marred by totally illogical puzzles? Or both? It's been too many years since I played them.

Frankly, with the continuing success of the DW franchise, I am surprised it has taken this many years (since Discworld Noir) and no new DW game in the making - StS not so much because it doesn't have the franchise behind it that DW has.
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drunkymonkey #19 4 years ago

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It was Discworld, AO.

I'm looking forward to this, even if the interface and presentation look cack.
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Slamhound #20 4 years ago

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In all fairness, the DW games haven't... Exactly been that good. About all the series can lend itself to is adventure games, and as much fun as the first two DW games were, LucasArts and Sierra were doing bigger and better things already.
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L42yB #21 4 years ago

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Yeh... I love the Discworld books but the games have been a big dissappointment. They even had Eric Idle doing the voice of Rincewind (which was cast *perfectly* IMO) but the puzzles were impossibly silly and sometimes I got very bored with the dialog...

What they need to do is get Pratchett himself to write the script (nothing beats Pratchetts dialog), get Eric Idle back and then get the guys who did Sam and Max to make the game
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dolphan #22 4 years ago

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But Noir was awesome ...
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