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Douglas Adams's Starship Titanic

Douglas Adams's Starship Titanic

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Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Bought for the Reader - Book Fair to Good
Review: Although I had read the Hitchhiker's Series, was unsure about this one, until I saw Terry Jones was the reader. He made the audiobook. As for the book itself, pretty good, especially the bomb. Probably one I won't re-listen to.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A Fabulous adventure in slightly unfinished luxury
Review: I truly love Starship Titanic. It is wondrous, luxurious, stimulating, hilarious, and incredible. You will be stunned by the detailed interiors, sophisticated robots, and ingenious navigation system. My only complaint is that there isn't more of it! I pray there is a sequel planned, and that it's going to be five CD's instead of 3. I simply cannot get enough of Starship Titanic!

Douglas Adams and the Digital Village have truly out-done themselves. This game is a very tastefully appointed evolution of the text-based adventure games of yore. It's like the original HHGG Infocom game, except with an incredible new text parsing engine and top-notch digital imaging borne of Soft Image. The enormous effort, wit, and clear thinking put into this game is vividly evident behind every corner and in every joke. Thank you all for creating this wonderful masterpiece, you have set a high standard for adventure games to come.

Starship Titanic is a landmark, ground breaking product. I encourage everyone to purchase this game, play it, and share it with friends and family. You will not be dissapointed, guaranteed.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: What a srtange book.
Review: Starship Titanic is a curiosity. I read it in one day, but I really don't think that it mattered that I read it at all. I enjoyed it, but I am not sure that I really am glad that I read it. It is based on a video game and I just didn't understand much of the action (mostly sex and arguing about free upgrades). I would recommend this book only to Adams or Python fans. First timers shoould read The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: All around general hilarity and psychosis.
Review: What do you get when you try and fit hysterical laughter, mad parrots with a passion with pistachios, lascvicious aliens, (And lamps) crazy robots, intense sex, Douglas Adams, Terry Jones, and a ship named Titanic into 241 pages?

You get a book.

I thought it was, despite all the other reviews, pretty good. It was fairly obvious from the start that there would not be any Adams intricacy that I enjoy.

So?

It was a beautiful book, but not without it's flaws.

1. It's too nice.

2. It's too good.

3. It made me talk in paradoxes for three days afterward.

Other than that, it was good.

Things that I learned from Starship Titanic:

Lucy has one helluva libido.

Don't argue with deskbots. To quote Marsinta 'Obviously you're mistaking me for a deskbot who gives a damn'

Gondola operators stink.

Gentlemen. We're screwed.

Titania is worse than Deep Blue.

SMEF (Spontaneous Massive Existance Failure) is somewhat like an iceberg.

SD guns can be given to children.

Cub reporters are nice.

Leovinus was a nutcase.

And I think that's all.

Yours, Calvin Wong

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Brilliant portait of technology failures and their humor
Review: Great, every bit as good as Hitchhiker's trilog

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: STARSHIP TITANIC ROCKS!!!!
Review: this game is the most fun i've ever had! it's challanges are not disappointing, and the interface is outstanding. unlike myst and riven, this gamekeeps you laughing and amused througout the entire game! you can even have full conversations with the robots! GO BUY IT TODAY!!!!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Quite amusing and satisfactory, while not pure DNA
Review: Though it lacks the intricacy that is the signature of Adams, I find this a refreshing take on the video game's plot, and grant that its want for subplots is the cost of bearing the same name. Overall, a pleasing experience.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Overall, an exellent game.
Review: Starship Tianic is a masterpiece of atmosphere, created by the astounding graphics and music. The problems, though, are near impossable. You MUST have the stratigy guide to get through this game. It takes up LOTS of hard drive, but the conversations with the robots (and parrot) are revolutionary. This is a good game for experienced players.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Starship Titanic just... went wrong
Review: Starship Titanic is quite possibly the most disappointing game release I have ever purchased. With an allstar cast from Monty Python, and a plot presumably based on Douglas Adams' book of the same name, Starship Titanic could not possible go wrong....

.... except it did. Granted, the gorgeous design and graphics (reminiscent of a fusion of art deco and the "streamlined look" of American design of the early half of this century) make for a stunning visual effect. But this magic is marred by clumsy navigation and a balky "natural language" interface. On a more picky level, once the glitz wears off, it just takes too darn long to get from room to room.

The puzzles of Starship Titanic are trivial, pedantic, and often just plain silly ("disarming" the Maitre d' Bot comes to mind). Often the solutions require little more than fumbling about, or the limitless patience of slogging from room to room. Solving the game provides more of a sense of relief than intellectual achievement.

I had hoped to experience some of the incomparable wit of Douglas Adams in this game, but was disappointed on that score too. Humor was almost non-existent, surfacing only in portions of the dialog (most notably with the irritable Bomb, and the irritating Parrot). If you are looking to relive the hilarity of the Hitchhiker series...look elsewhere.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Just can't pull it off...
Review: Adams puts a large number of diversions and subplots that add to the ultimate goal of the "Hitchhiker" and "Dirk Gently" Series: exploring human nature through the bizarre. ("What?" I can hear 12-year-olds screaming, "You mean it's not just escape fiction?") Unfortunately, Jones doesn't reach that level, and _Starship_ tends to remain at the silly and shallow.


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