[{"TitleName":"Galilee","Publisher":"Shards Software Ltd","Author":"Peter M. Goodlad","YearOfRelease":"1984","ZxDbId":"0010807","Reviews":[{"Issue":{"Name":"Personal Computer News Issue 89, Dec 1984","Price":"","ReleaseDate":"1984-11-23","Editor":"Peter Worlock","TotalPages":66,"HasCoverTape":false,"FlannelPanel":"Editorial\r\nEditor: Peter Worlock\r\nDeputy Editor: David Guest\r\nProduction Editor: Lauraine Turner\r\nSub Editor: Harriet Arnold\r\nEditor's Assistant: Karen Isaac\r\nNews Writer: Ralph Bancroft, Sandra Grandison\r\nFeatures Editor: John Lettice\r\nSoftware Editor: Bryan Skinner\r\nPeripherals Editor: Kenn Garroch\r\nHardware Editor: Stuart Cooke\r\nPrograms Editor: Nickie Robinson\r\nArt Director: Jim Dansie\r\nArt Editor: Dave Alexander\r\nAssistant Art Editor: Tim Brown\r\nLayout Artist: Bruce Preston\r\nPublisher: Cyndy Miles\r\nPublishing Assistant: Tobe Bendeth\r\n\r\nAdvertising\r\nGroup Advertising Manager: Peter Goldstein\r\nAdvertisement Manager: Bettina Williams\r\nAssistant Advertisement Managers: Laura Cade, Claire Rowbottom\r\nSales Executives: Claire Barnes, Phil Benson, Mike Blackman, Julian Burns, Steve Corrick, Tony Keefe, Andrew Flint, Christian McCarthy, Isabel Middleton, Sarah Musgrave, Tony O'Reilly, Anita Stokes\r\nProduction: Richard Gaffrey\r\nAdvertisement Assistant: Jan Moore\r\nSubscription Enquiries: Gill Stevens\r\nSubscription Address: [redacted]\r\nEditorial Address: [redacted]\r\nAdvertising Address: [redacted]\r\n\r\nPublished by VNU Business Publications, [redacted]\r\n© VNU 1983. No material maybe reproduced in whole or in part without written consent from the copyright holders.\r\nPhotoset by Quickset, [redacted]\r\nPrinted by Chase Web Offset, [redacted]\r\nDistributed by Seymour Press, [redacted]\r\nRegistered at the PO as a newspaper"},"MainText":"PRICE: £5.95\r\nPUBLISHER: Shards Software [redacted]\r\n\r\nI loaded up Galilee with great interest, having very much enjoyed Peter Goodlad's previous adventure Jericho Road. The good news is that the Rev Goodlad has raided the Bible again, and come up with another good adventure.\r\n\r\nThe Minister has a bit of the devil in him and you don't even know what your mission is. What you do know is that this is the 15th year of the Emperor Tiberius and you wake up in a graveyard where a maniac keeps popping up to hit your poor aching head. A quick poke in the 'I' (for invenotory) reveals that you have 20 denarii and a letter, but nothing to get back at the manic who cries 'I'll kill you again!' Again? This maniac is mad. Let's read the letter, which tells Zebedee and sons to give employment to the bearer, signed Abrahams, Fish Gate. Fishy business. Well, provided you examine everything.\r\n\r\nEXAMINE MAP draws a map of the Sea of Galilee and surrounding area, with a flashing cursor indicating where you are.\r\n\r\nOnce you have the map of the Sea of Galilee you can check it any time you like, whether on the sea or ashore, and the cursor tells you where you are. This is useful, especially when you're crossing the Sea, but less than useful is the bug in the program which causes it to crash at one point with an out of screen report, when you venture south of Tiberius and then cross a bridge.\r\n\r\nPray and Help can be used, to take you to those Biblical references (cribs?), while Score gives you a percentage to indicate how you're doing. If you die you can start the game over again, and although you go back to the beginning you can input your final score so that the game itself will be in the state it was when you left, it. To understand that, you need to know that the game doesn't provide a long series of obstacles, but instead is more a gathering of information and clues, and meetings with various people.\r\n\r\nYou need a generous supply of papyrus - at the moment I've got four different maps going for the four towns I've visited, with another to come when this Michael can row his boat ashore to Capernaum. Some of the maps should eventually connect together, I imagine. I've found the right person to take the letter to, but haven't yet been very successful with the fishing net, and at one point I seemed to be on the verge of walking in on the Sermon on the Mount.\r\n\r\nApart from the map there are plenty more graphics screens, including views of the towns as you approach them from the water and the insides of several buildings, from inns to synagogues. The screen is nicely laid out, with the location description and obvious directions at the top (don't forget to try the other directions, too, but don't ask me to raise you from the dead every time), and your commands and the responses underneath.\r\n\r\nUnfortunately, the commands disappear when the response comes up, and that response disappears when you enter your next command.\r\n\r\nAn intriguing adventure, original in many ways, and despite a few problems it should appeal to most adventurers.","ReviewerComments":[],"OverallSummary":"","Page":"46","Denied":false,"Award":"Not Awarded","Reviewers":[{"Name":"Mike Gerrard","Score":"8","ScoreSuffix":"/10"}],"ScreenshotText":[],"BlurbText":[],"TranscriptBy":"Chris Bourne","ReviewScores":[{"Header":"Overall","Score":"8/10","Text":""}],"CompilationReviewScores":[]}]}]