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01-15-2011, 01:41 AM
Prince of Persia creator Jordan Mechner's cult classic adventure game The Last Express is finally available to purchase again after being unavailable for over a decade.
The game comes in a digital "Collector's Edition" courtesy DotEmu, which is a French distributor that operates similarly to Good Old Games. The pack costs $9.99 and contains the game's original soundtrack, a walkthrough, and a making-of video (presumably the same one that came on the original game's disc).
The Last Express is not very well known outside of the adventure game community, though if recent rumors are true, a major film by RoboCop and Total Recall director Paul Verhoeven may put the game into the public spotlight that evaded it back in the 1990s.
Mechner himself seems to be particularly proud of this title, as evidenced by this page on his portfolio website, and he should be: The Last Express was an innovative take on the adventure genre that still holds up to this day.
This is not the only way the game has been available since its initial release, as games-on-demand service GameTap at one time offered access to the game as part of its subscription service. Today's release from DotEmu, however, is the first time players have been allowed to own the game since it was on store shelves.
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The game comes in a digital "Collector's Edition" courtesy DotEmu, which is a French distributor that operates similarly to Good Old Games. The pack costs $9.99 and contains the game's original soundtrack, a walkthrough, and a making-of video (presumably the same one that came on the original game's disc).
The Last Express is not very well known outside of the adventure game community, though if recent rumors are true, a major film by RoboCop and Total Recall director Paul Verhoeven may put the game into the public spotlight that evaded it back in the 1990s.
Mechner himself seems to be particularly proud of this title, as evidenced by this page on his portfolio website, and he should be: The Last Express was an innovative take on the adventure genre that still holds up to this day.
This is not the only way the game has been available since its initial release, as games-on-demand service GameTap at one time offered access to the game as part of its subscription service. Today's release from DotEmu, however, is the first time players have been allowed to own the game since it was on store shelves.
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