Mortimer Beckett and the Time Paradox - Traveling in Time is Possible. From Now.

The shower of sequels to hit games continues, this time with the second part of the addictive quest about the adventurous guy Mortimer Beckett and his uncle Jerome. The game offers all the features of the original one which were so attractive for players, and even more puzzle fun.

What about traveling through time? It's easy, if you have an uncle!

Though in the first part Mortimer freed his uncle Jerome's manor from ghosts, they managed to open a Time Portal. And if a Time Portal is open, it always means Big Trouble! So our hero ventures to the dangerous quest of finding all the eight pieces of the Time Bomb able to seal the Portal for good. You together with Mr. Beckett will visit eight time zones with anomalies from Ancient Greece to Wild West and Robot Age and fix the consequences of the Time Paradox putting all the things to the places they belong.

That is all about the story, and the game actually doesn't need much of it, as the game play fully compensates lack of fabula. Each of the eight stages consists of several locations, and each of them contains a number of items to find and puzzles to solve. As in the first part, each item is divided into pieces, and once you find all of them, it's added to your inventory to be used later.

There are two categories of items: Misplaced Items and Puzzle Items. Each of the Misplaced Items needs to be located where it belongs. And after you do that with al of the items of the category in a stage, you will get an artifact. Puzzle items are needed to help find some other pieces, complete characters' tasks and eventually pass the stage.

Besides that, there are some puzzles that will need either information you get as reward from kings and gods, or just your wits. Look for the information in your Notebook and for the wits in your head - and the success is there!

All the items and puzzles in different locations within a stage are interconnected, so your game play won't be linear. You will revisit each scene more than once, and sometimes you'll have to go deeper into sub-locations in order to complete the quest.

The game is rather relaxing due to absence of time limits and presence of unlimited number of rechargeable hints, so you can take your time and enjoy it fully. There is also help like rotating gears near a place to use an item or number of items left near a scene on the map.

I should also speak about the visuals and sounding of the game. The graphics is rich and colorful, and the sounds complementing it perfectly. All the rest you'll see and hear by yourself, so welcome!

If you need a high quality blend of hidden object and quest, than Mortimer Beckett and the Time Paradox is the right choice. And I'll be leaving you for now - still have a stage to complete...

digg it! | del.icio.us