All aboard the good ship Nostalgia! Developer Deck 13 knows a thing or two about PC adventure gaming and its new title, Jack Keane, affectionately loots from some classics in the PC canon. The box art alone will trigger deserved comparisons to much-loved staples such as the Monkey Island series, and the gameplay follows the rules set out by LucasArts all those years ago.
Graphics: 07
Sound: 07
Gameplay: 06
A.I.: 06
Value: 08
Tilt: 06
The game provides some seriously needed fun in the otherwise stale point-and-click genre. GameZone liked what the developers did here and they hope they do it again.
Gameplay - 7.7
Graphics - 7.0
Sound - 7.0
Difficulty - Medium
Concept - 7.4
Overall -
Jack Keane is a wonderful adventure experience that should bring back fond memories of old school adventure games. The artwork and design is great for this type of game and the music blended in well to keep the action going. A majority of the puzzles may seem too easy at first, but the difficulty does ramp up later in the game to provide a decent challenge for puzzle solvers. Voice acting can be a little grating at times and the jokes could have been better, but this light-hearted adventure can be fun for those who aren't interested in a serious mystery.
Hooked Gamers writes: "Once upon a time, this game was going to be entitled Jack Keane and the Dokktor's Island. That was back in 2005 and shortly after developer Deck 13 had just released a well-received game entitled Ankh. Along the way, besides changing publishers a couple of times, the title got shortened. Whatever the reason(s), after about three years of ballyhoo, it looks like the game is -finally- going to make its debut.
On the surface, the game looks like it taps in to most of the fun aspects that were to be found in Monkey Island. Does mentioning that game give you a clear idea of what to expect? The image that conjures up for me includes 'cartoonish' artwork (check), pervasive tongue-in-cheek humor (check), point-and-click interface (check), cursor rollovers that indicate how on-screen objects are to be used (check), pick-your-choice-of-clever-lines dialogue trees (check). Yeah, the game has all that, so I guess my work is done here! What's that? You want details? Oh, alright then…"
