The 7th Guest Part III: The Collector
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The 7th Guest Part III: The Collector is the official second sequel to the popular 1993 game The 7th Guest
The 7th Guest
The 7th Guest, produced by Trilobyte and released by Virgin Games in 1993, is an FMV-based puzzle video game. It was one of the first computer video games to be released only on CD-ROM. The 7th Guest is a horror story told from the unfolding perspective of the player, as an amnesiac...

developed by Rob Landeros
Rob Landeros
Rob Landeros is a computer game designer and graphic artist. Together with Graeme Devine, he co-founded Trilobyte, where he created the highly commercially successful games The 7th Guest and The 11th Hour...

 and Graeme Devine
Graeme Devine
Graeme Devine is a computer game designer and programmer who co-founded Trilobyte, created bestselling games The 7th Guest and The 11th Hour, and designed id Software's Quake III Arena. He was also Chairman of the International Game Developers Association from 2002-2003...

 (the original creators of The 7th Guest). The Collector was to be released in 2004 under the publisher Lunny Interactive, but after much delay the game disappeared off Lunny's website. Shortly after, the game's official website (which had only displayed a brief summary of the story and the first teaser trailer) also disappeared. It still is not confirmed whether the game was cancelled or postponed indefinitely.

Description

The Collector takes place after The 11th Hour
The 11th Hour (computer game)
The 11th Hour is a 1995 puzzle computer game with a horror setting. It is the sequel to the 1992 game The 7th Guest. It was developed by Trilobyte and used a later version of the "Groovie" graphic engine than that used by The 7th Guest...

. Henry Stauf has moved from his mansion in upstate New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...

to a lonely and odd European village where he has opened a museum filled with various artifacts that tell the evil history of human kind. The player is the "visitor" in Stauf's museum and his/her goal is to explore its contents and learn some interesting and entertaining facts about infamous events.

Characters

  • Visitor The Visitor is the player of the game.

  • Henry Stauf Now the curator of the museum, Stauf's goal in the game is to challenge the Visitor through a series of puzzles designed to both intrigue and confuse the mind.

  • Blue Angel The Blue Angel is the Visitor's guide through the museum. She provides helpful tips and clues to the gameplay.

Gameplay

The main objective of the game is to open all 13 galleries in a specific order determined by the Blue Angel. Stauf, however, will try to get to the galleries first and will be an extra obstacle to the player while on the gallery. Successful opening of a gallery will allow the player to explore the area freely and both play (solve puzzles or "Hands On Displays") and view the available artifacts.

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