There are a few real time arcade sequences in there that you must get through, as well as a recurrent theme in Sierra titles: the built-in game. The plot may be linear, but connecting the dots between the beginning and the end of that line is not so easy. While this style of play will appeal to most adventure game veterans who like to get stuck into a real challenge, I can likewise picture all the novices out there scratching their collective heads. To a significant extent you're left to your own devices here, and clues as to where to go or what to do next can be quite elusive. Basically, you really are the captain of your own starship this time, and you have to repeatedly choose the correct command of the moment from menus of about 30 different commands that are possible to issue between your navigation officer, communications officer, science officer, and engineer. Where SQ5 does differ from the earlier games in the series is in the game play. For the most part, I did get a kick out of this constant lampooning, but as with all attempts to take the mickey, some hit the mark, and some fall a bit short. Even a Monty Python skit that made fun of tree spotters gets a look-in. Star Trek, Star Wars, they all have a reference or two in there somewhere. The main theme of SQ5 isn't a whole lot different from the earlier Space Quests in that it takes every chance it can to poke irreverent fun at all things that were part of TV and film pop culture at the time. actually, to collect large bags of trash jettisoned into orbit around various planets.īut as it turns out, the role of a garbage collector increases vastly in importance once the plot is revealed to involve toxic waste dumping on a galactic scale. A twist of fate lands him a perfect score on his final exam, and he winds up as captain of his very own ship - even if it is a lowly garbage scow! His mission: to boldly go where. Roger begins this episode as a cadet at the StarCon Space Academy. Review by Steve Metzler (January, 2003) Space Quest 5 (SQ5) finds our lovable, hapless hero Roger Wilco in yet another bid to unwittingly save the universe.
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