Gamebook Adventures: Infinite Universe app for iPhone and iPad
An interactive science-fiction adventure! Its a book. Its a game. Its an RPG. Its a Gamebook Adventure!
** 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!
Pros and cons of Gamebook Adventures: Infinite Universe app for iPhone and iPad
Gamebook Adventures: Infinite Universe app good for
This is an extremely well done and polished app. A must have for anyone who enjoys choose your own adventure or gamebooks. I would love to see more scifi like this added to the collection.
Not free as you have to buy anything after chapter 1, which I promptly did. The game is not only well designed, it has an in depth development system which integrates into the game perfectly. The story itself is beautifully written, and has kept me hooked for hours. No shortage of humor either. Definite buy.
As far as "Choose your own adventure" style of book goes, Tin Man Games made a wonderful job in integrating technology in it with the Gamebook Adventure series! This new sci-fi book improves the rules with skills, which is great!
The price, at 4.99$, may be a bit steep compared to many other apps out there, but to see this genre revive in such a nice way makes me want to spend that 5$ without remorse.
Begins to feel less like a choose your own adventure and more like a real text based RPG
Some bad moments
The book is good itself, unfortunatly unstable. Book crash and does not open again.
Also, if you unistall and reinstall, they want you to pay again to get the chapter you already paid for...
Do not recommand this apps
First off, Im a big fan of the series who has played and finished every gamebook adventure before this one. Unfortunately the writer they used for this particular one is utterly terrible. While the overall story arc is fine, the writer just doesnt seem to understand how to write in an engaging way. Every page is filled with huge run on sentences describing the exact dimensions of random items in a completely stilted way. You end up having to reread sentences multiple times just because his writing style is so unnatural. On top of that theres barely any choices to make, half the time youre just rolling the dice to randomly get sent to a different section. I do like that they tried to implement a skill system, unfortunately its done just as badly as the writing. Oh and the attempts at humor all pretty much fall flat too. An all your bases joke? Really?
Please never use this writer again, thanks.
The new update doesnt let me play the game when you touch play at the menu screen
This is a book where you have to press buttons to select choices. They work when you press them maybe a third of the time. Considering that making choices is the most important part of the game, you can imagine the quality of the rest of the app. Do not buy.
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
This game was amazing. I couldnt 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.
