Fajn hra takový hry mě celkem bavý ale co mě maličko štve,že tam neni bohužel čeština ;)
Njn něco z angličtiny pochytim ale moc toho neni ;)

GOOD GAME

Not bad but also for me no good, nice story not bad graphic but some time booring. Also i found in this game two bugs. But maybe you will like it.

I genuinely enjoyed this game. This is one of the best point and click adventure games I played thus far.
Graphically, it is very well designed with a comic feel and style to it. You have different locations and settings to explore.
The soundtrack was also top notch. It really gives you that 50's vibe with jazzy tunes playing on the background. The voice acting was also superbly done and the dialogues were well written. It is like reading pages from a novel.
About the gameplay. it is basically a point and click game. You get to play two protagonist, who happen to have their own unique personalities, wherein you can switch characters anytime you like. You have your puzzles here and there, which I find a little too easy. You have to do a lot of back and forth stuff here. The only annoying thing there is the long loading times.
The game has multiple endings depending on the choices you made earlier in the game. This gives the game a replayability factor, which I always look for in games. It gives you that motivation to see how a game will turn out if you did this rather than that.
I love playing games that have a well-thought-out story. If you love those type of games, I highly recommend this game.

I'm sorry but this is a rather dull and meatless adventure game.

I'm a seasoned point 'n' click fan and have played a LOT of them ever since I started gaming in the mid 80's. I actually like them so much that even what the general public considers sub par, I seem to enjoy. Also, Daedalic has been in the forefront of the genre for quite a few of the later years and I respect them immensely. It sadly all falls short when it comes to this title.

The premise of the game, it's characters, setting and atmosphere all has potential, but the developer just lets you scratch the surface and never let you get involved and interested. Clearly wanting to provoke some thoughts in us players with including gay marriage, interracial relationships, racism and fatal choices. Even throwing in some adult language and beat slang to top it off. Sadly though, without the ability to get to know the characters and their background better and relatively chopped up writing it never gets interesting and sometimes just feels out of place and added for the wrong reasons. It all feels a bit uninspired and messy. It feels hard to get into the story and even harder to care about the characters. I personally felt so uninspired playing this game I almost didn't want to finish it.

Voice overs are ok I guess, but mostly for the main characters, but here too it seems uninspired. Some other characters are just bad. I usually don't let bad voice acting ruin my experience though, so these are not game breaking.

It's not just the story and characters that seems sloppy. The game mechanics, animations and even some modelling also fails to impress. There's a lot of black-outs through scenes making the whole experience chopped and slow. It also seems you only get to see part of the animations before going black-screen. I just got sick and tired of all those black-screens all the time. There's not a lot going on from scene to scene so I would imagine it didn't need that much loading, but alas. The left-click/right-click mechanics are ok but most of the time it is just totally pointless and I feel in most cases they could have left out the one. Also things can be hidden out of view, even the transition-arrow to go to another screen. Many times because of the pop-out inventory/menu on the left side of the screen. You transfer between the two main characters quite easily using the inventory menu. Shame that the game several times leaves you clueless to when you should change. I've seen this done much better in other games. A simple forced switch would be better in a game like this. The background artists seems to have done a good job at least.

It's not all bad, and for true adventure fans it might be worth a playthrough. I would not recommend buying this game at full price though. Look for a big discount and be prepared for something that feels uninspiring. It should take about 5-7 hours to complete, so it is quite short.

It is certainly one of the weakest titles coming from Daedalic, one of the greatest providers of quality adventure games, and hopefully we won't see something this weak again from them.

I'll rate the game 4 out of 10. Below par.

As always, you might have a totally different opinion about this game. So make sure not to decide on getting this game or not solely on this review.

Happy gaming :o)

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Nebaví mě.

Boring...

1954 Alcatraz is a point & click adventure game. Although it usually isn't my preferred format for a review, in this case the text almost naturally grew into a 'pros and cons' list as I wrote it.


+ The voice acting is great. Really.

+ The backgrounds look nice. Not stunning but nice enough.

+ You play half of the game as Joe, a prisoner who wants to escape Alcatraz so he plans and prepares his escape from prison, and the other half of the game as Christine, Joe's girlfriend who's making the necessary 'outside' arrangements for the prison break from within the city of San Francisco. You can switch between the two characters at any time. This adds an interesting dynamic to the game and an extra dimension to the plot.

+ The actions you're required to perform in order to progress the story are very logical. Although, for some people this will mean the game is too easy.

+ You can press the space bar at any time to see the objects you can interact with in any scene. So if you're stuck, this can help. You don't have to use this feature and you can even switch it off entirely in the options menu.

+ Die-hard 1950s fans can choose to play the game in black & white by enabling '1954 mode' in the options menu.


- There's no real story branching until the very end where you make one of four choices that determine how the story ends right after that choice. Well, there are a few choices to be made earlier in the game but the only real difference this makes is whether or not you'll get the Steam Achievement In cold blood in the end.

- Character animation is ugly and clunky. When characters talk, their mouth just opens and closes rather fast as if they were a bunch of yapping muppets. And sometimes you can see a white void inside a character's head when (s)he's talking.

- There are no other animations besides character animation, so the world doesn't really feel 'alive'.

- Long loading times: every time you go from one scene to the next, the image either fades to black, which takes about 3 seconds, or freezes frame for about 4 seconds. After that, you see a black screen for about 3 seconds and then a black screen with a coffee cup to indicate the game is loading. So all in all, that's about 10 seconds each time, which is pretty long for a game like this.

- There are no puzzles at all in this game. I mean there is the standard point & click adventure gameplay (i.e. gathering items and using them on objects in the world or using them on other items in your inventory to combine them into a new item), of course, but there are no other/actual puzzles to be solved, unlike most other adventure games.

- I encountered a game-breaking bug near the end, which caused the game to tell me Christine's part was played and I couldn't switch to her anymore, whereas she still needed to do something that was absolutely required to advance Joe's side of the story. Luckily, I had a save from right before it happened or I would have been stuck before the game's final chapter could start.

- The game needs some tweaking to get the Steam Achievements working. I refer to the 'discussions' (forum) on Steam where you'll find the solution to this problem: disable Steam Overlay for the game and enable compatibility mode for the file 'Alcatraz.exe'. For me, running Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit with Service Pack 1, I had to run the game in 'Windows 7' compatibility mode (so the non-SP mode). The first achievement should trigger pretty much at the beginning of the game, after performing only a couple of actions and leaving your cell, so that's an easy way to check if achievements are working for you. If they're not, try a different compatibility setting and start a new game. Don't forget you won't see the achievements' pop-up like you may be used to (because you had to disable the overlay), so you need to alt-tab to Steam and check if the achievement triggered.


1954 Alcatraz is a pretty mediocre point & click adventure with a moderately interesting story. If you're short on time, I recommend you look for better games of its genre. If you like the point & click adventure genre a lot and have already played the best games, 1954 Alcatraz is certainly good enough to play through once, so in the end I would recommend it in general... but not at its current price of €20! The game's flaws combined with this steep price finally resulted in me clicking 'No, I don't recommend this game'. If you can pick up 1954 Alcatraz when it's heavily discounted (at least -80%) or in a bundle, you may want to give it a try. But at its full price, you will feel that you overpaid, even if you can look past the game's flaws.

+ Fantastic voice-acting; the majority of lines are delivered in an organic, quality manner
+ Well-crafted dialogue options; writing feels mature and immersive
+ Hand-drawn set designs are artistic lend a unique feeling to the experience
+ Everything, from the dialogue, to the set features, feels period-appropriate
+ Boasts a mature and competently developed narrative
+ Soundtrack, of a largely jazz-theme, is absolutely fantastic

- Poor animation quality; everything feels clunky and uncoordinated, but not in a charming way
- Puzzles are, occasionally, woefully simplistic
- Poor secondary character development; most of the support cast is immediately forgettable
- Audio design seems to often be out of sync with the actions of the characters


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