![]() Newer fans of the genre will discover the Sokal’s beautifully crafted world while feeling at ease with the game mechanics. So, is it worth your time? With all the negatives I’ve mentioned here I’ll give a solid but yet reluctant… yes. A sequel coming 13 years later, tries to continue an already perfect story. Hans finally saw the mammoths, Kate found herself in the journey and Oscar - in a very human-like gesture – sacrificed himself to save his creator. Syberia 2 came out in 2004 neatly wrapping up the plot lines. But the game simply tries to capitalize on our nostalgic memories, offering nothing more than outdated game mechanics and an average storyline. Sure, these problems are quite common for cross-platform adventure titles these days, and we could live with that if Syberia 3 had a unique shtick, like the time travel in Life is Strange for example. Frequent framerate drops, stilted facial animations and twitchy character movements combined with controls designed for a gamepad make the experience unbearable at times. The latter looks and feels like a straightaway console port and a bad one at that. PlayStation and Xbox versions dropped a week prior to the release on PC. While Syberia and Syberia 2 were both PC classics, Microids clearly developed the third installment with consoles in mind. The story itself – without any spoilers – is… good, but very much clichéd and feels stale in comparison to modern episodic adventure games. The dialogues now have multiple choice variants, but, predictably enough, it doesn’t really affect the story in any significant way. Kate doesn’t have an inventory anymore, so the puzzles follow the simple ‘cause and effect’ logic – very much like in Telltale’s The Walking Dead series. ![]() Sure, the environment is more interactive, but at the same time the flow is more linear as well – take this, do that, watch a cut scene. ![]() ![]() Syberia 3 borrows tropes from every modern adventure game while sacrificing what made the series great in the first place. The characters are there, the recognizable art is there and the sound is very much reminiscent of the previous installments. Don’t get me wrong – Syberia 3 is still a beautiful game. ![]()
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