Gamebook Adventures: Infinite Universe
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Games | $5.99 | Tin Man Games Pty Ltd | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
** YOU DO NOT NEED TO HAVE READ ANY OF THE PREVIOUS GAMEBOOK ADVENTURES IN ORDER TO READ INFINITE UNIVERSE **
The first sci-fi gamebook in the the critically acclaimed interactive e-book series in which YOU, the reader, control the direction of the story! Along with a realistic dice system to fight creatures and use skills, a fantastic new story and beautiful artwork, Infinite Universe will literally take you to another world, giving you many hours of gamebook adventuring!
"In the fourth millennium, the Mandellian Empire of the Tau Ceti system is at war with the rebel army known as DWORF. And lucky you have been chosen for a dangerous solo mission to kill or capture the rebel leader, through mind-bending loops of time and space. But wait a minute. Just who are you anyway? And how did you even get here? Such secrets you must uncover if you are to unlock your destiny…"
•An all new sci-fi epic set within an all new universe! Our largest GA title yet!
•Includes all the interactive reading and gameplay features found in the previous Gamebook Adventures titles, including an authentic e-book experience, realistic 3D dice rolling, automatic character sheet management, bookmarks and achievements.
•Original story by Brewin’, editor of the first four Gamebook Adventures titles, that has been specifically designed to take advantage of the NEW Gamebook Adventures engine.
•Beautifully illustrated in colour by Joshua Wright, with cover and menu art by Dan Maxwell.
•An exhilarating music score by Hanny Mohamed, world-renowned musician from Black Majesty.
•Read the story and be in charge of your destiny as you make the choices! Where to go? Who to trust? What to do? The choice is yours!
•Travel through times past, present and future, through far-flung worlds beyond your wildest imagination, to piece together a series of events that will amaze, amuse and entertain you!
•New battle mechanics such as ranged and vehicular combat.
•An innovative all new points-based skill system that is influenced by your own unique narrative. Choose the skills to suit your own playing style!
•Play as a male or female character!
•A detailed star map with extensive annotations.
•An expansive encyclopaedia to cover everything from stars, planets and moons, to important personalities and organisations, to technology, to tips for survival, and more!
Gamebook Adventures is brought together through the efforts of passionate and avid gamebook enthusiasts. If you are familiar with the Fighting Fantasy, Sorcery, Lone Wolf or Grail Quest series then Gamebook Adventures will really appeal to you. Our aim is to give those nostalgic readers of old something new and fresh, and bring a new exciting experience to those unfamiliar with gamebooks. If you enjoy fantasy RPGs or adventure games then this is for you!
Reviews
Wow
Night hawk lol step brothers
Really good u control your book if u want to kill a donkey u can choose to kill a donkey ( dosnt really kill a donkey ) u make your stats make your decisions and basically ( not trying to sound cheesy) u choose your fate
Great Gamebook
fireteardrop7
This game was amazing. I couldn't put it down I just had to know what happened. In fact I managed to get the best ending my first time through and was sad because I was looking forward to going though the game again!? But guess what I still can (and am doing so)! Love everything about it: Story, Characters, Humor, and Skills. Lots of choices and lots of laughs. I must recommend to any that like Gamebooks or even games and books in general. It was so good in fact I think this is the first review I have written because I just had to share. Look forward to a sequel or at least some more science fiction from Tin Man Games.
What was with the racism?!??!
discostar
My only real complaint about this Gamebook was the forced ethnicity and ethnic point (or lack there of) of the storyline. The ethnicity of Caucasian is thrust upon the player out of nowhere. In the middle of the adventure. When gender certainly is an option. The player is forced to tolerate ethnicity based negative comments for completely no reason what-so-ever. It was weird. I'm sure the author was attempting to make some kind of comment on race in Australia, and how poorly the Caucasian community is treated by the aboriginal people, but it really ruined the book for me. It's only point in the story was interpreted by me, as nothing more than a shoddy attempt at saying "see, 'they're' the ones being racist!" I repeat- WEIRD. The big question remaining: WHAT WAS THE POINT? Why didn't you just ask the player what they look like in the Infinite Universe? Not every "Average Joe" is Caucasian. BUT STILL 4 STARS because the game experience was better than the trope-abusive storyline.
Great!
GIS Guy
I really enjoyed this choose your own adventure book. I own all of the tin man books. This was pretty cool and worth it.
Good story
Bh232271
Liked this one too. Was entertaining and let you get I new bookmark at each chapter. Though I found a glitch that lets you get as many a u want on classic lol. Cant wait for the sequel.
weakest entry in GA series
simkn
I had difficulty getting into this story. The plot starts you in an amnesia scenario in which you have no memory of your past, which is a great hook. And then you are thrust into some action. So far this is a great way to hook your reader and start the story with a bang. But this promising pace at the beginning quickly evaporates when you soon find yourself in a series of rooms with excessively long descriptions -- or one big room with many corners to explore and random encounters throughout. The pace has vanished and has been replaced by "maze traversal" and wearying room descriptions. The grammar is jarringly bad, and this happens a bit too often: misplaced commas, incorrect use of adverbs, excessively piled-on prepositional phrases, random changes in tense, and many other amateur writing errors. Case in point: "Roll a dice" is just elementary bad grammar! These errors made the prose clumsy enough that it gave the game a very amateurish feel overall and that detracted significantly from my reading pleasure. This gamebook would benefit from the thorough attention of an editor. I applaud the efforts at improving the game engine, since thus far the GA game engine has been essentially bare bones. The addition of skills, medals, and long-range weapons is a start. But I found these disappointing as well. Having long-range weapons merely means that you have two weapons in your inventory instead of one, and otherwise long-range and short-range combats are *identical* in how they play out, so nothing new has really been added there. The medals are entertaining but otherwise don't impact the plot, so they are essentially pointless. Moreover, the medals actually become a nuisance: I was told at least 4 times that I had acquired a Dodge medal, and since this occurs as a parenthetical remark right in the midst of the text, these constant reminders provide yet another needless distraction from the story. The music is decent. I like the combat music. However the in-game music feels a bit sleepy during the text reading. Or maybe the text itself was sleep-inducing. In reality, it was probably the combination of the two (music plus text) that put me to sleep. The artwork has a certain simplistic effectiveness, and I liked it. In all I would rate this is as one of the weakest entries in the GA series. I appreciate that they made this game expandable through in-game purchases of additional chapters. This allowed me to try it for free and decide not to waste my money on the future chapters. If you're looking for a good sci-fi gamebook for the iPhone, check out Star Breed. Its writing, pacing, game engine, and music are all far superior to this lackluster addition to the GA series.
The game is fun, but the writing is poor
Canovaccio
I am using the first paragraph in page 228 in my classroom. I'll use it to show my students what a comma disaster looks like. Seriously, though, the writing is quite poor at times. Nobody expects Shakespeare, but there's a couple of passages that are unacceptable. Still, the game is fun and the story seems intriguing. I's just annoying how careless writing gets in the way.
Please Help
Mr. Simenson
I love your guys' books, so I was very Disturbed when I bought the full version and the game froze. First I tried to shut all of my apps and then restart my Ipad when that didnt work I uninstalled the app and re-installed it, much to my surprise the app was saying that I needed to re purchase the app even though I still recieved the email from Apple showing my purchase. I know I may only be one customer, but I also find it insensitive when i send you guys an email and never recieve a reply back, so now I must resort to writing this review. I will ask only once. Please Help. Sincerely, Simenson PS Simenson is pronounced like this "Sigh-men-Son"
Worst in the Series
Ze Weeg
Tedious, overly verbose and badly written. Long stretches of dull, trope laden text interspersed with occasional "choices" that don't seem to affect the overall story arc much at all. Author tends to use this smug tone that makes it clear he believes he's a much better and wittier writer than he actually is. Read a couple of times, then got sick of experiencing sudden, seemingly arbitrary deaths, and gave it up. Too bad -- would like to see this series expand to include some *decent* science fiction. Too bad the first entry in that category turned out to be such dull, irritating twaddle.
Great Game!!
Sem2
Another fabulous game from gamebook adventures! I really hope they continue with more games because I've run out and I would really love to play more. Pros: great story, wonderful music, and will leave you wanting more. I am definitely not a futuristic type of person, but I have to say that they still made the game enjoyable! Cons: for the players/readers of the previous books(like myself), it's a futuristic setting, and thus no tie in with the previous world All in all, great game, highly recommend it, replayed it several times.
