Enjoy British quips and time-travel? Think yourself clever enough to take on a hoard of Daleks with nothing but your wits and a Sonic Screwdriver? Now is your opportunity in BBC’s new Doctor Who computer game series.
In the first installment, City of Daleks, it’s 1963 and the human race has been crushed by the Daleks. The Doctor and his companion Amy Pond are the stars in this strategy game in their quest to correct time itself.
The creators of Doctor Who have put together four downloadable games that are canonical to the current season of the UK’s longest running hit show. Utilizing Sumo Digital, actors Matt Smith and Karen Gillan in their original roles of the Doctor and Amy, writers Phil Ford (co-writer for Waters of Mars) and James Moran, and the show’s composer Murray Gold, the creators have held nothing back in their attempt to make the game feel like you are part of the series itself.
Bear in mind, the Doctor is a strict pacifist. Instead of alien weaponry or button-mashing fights, your job is to use your brain and explore and solve a variety of puzzles. The visuals in this game are hardly mind-blowing, perhaps due to the fact that it was designed to be played on just about any PC of Mac. The element of beauty is not focused on the graphics so much as it is the details of the game itself with their focus on gameplay and internal logic.
This game will be available for free to download on the the Doctor Who website on June 5th.
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As someone who just recently got into Doctor Who, I’m a little excited for this. I don’t know if the fact that it’s free is a good or bad thing though. On the one hand, I’ll definitely download it now, but at the same time, how much effort does anyone put into a free game?