Mission Critical

Recommended. A serious science-fiction adventure from a more civilized age. Mission Critical (Legend Entertainment, 1995) is what adult PC science fiction looked like before the industry decided heroes had to be dismantled and progress had to be treated as original sin. You are not a chosen one with a tragic backstory montage. You are a nameless lieutenant—a supply officer transferred onto the USS Lexington so late that your name never made the printed crew manifest. Captain Stephen R. Dayna requested you specifically. He already suspected there was a traitor aboard. The year is 2134. For decades the Alliance of Free States—the United States and other nations and colonies that refused to freeze research—has been at war with a United Nations that became a world government and banned “life-emulating” technology. The UN’s stated reason is precaution: stop the work before electronic minds replace human ones. The Alliance’s answer is that a civilization that locks the laboratory door does not remain a civilization. The war has gone badly. Then a probe finds something on Persephone, a world in the Deneb Kaitos system dozens of light-years from Earth: alien ruins that might decide who i…

A little piece of the history of adventure games. A mature and thought-provoking adventure that plays the way a good science fiction novel reads. Also, it has Michael Dorn, aka Worf! Other than that, it is an old-school Myst-type adventure game with FMV parts, and it is fully voice-acted. [quote]Follow us for more [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/45113328-Awesome-Adventure-Friends/] Awesome Adventures![/url] [/quote]

Nice done

I like the story and most of the puzzles. There are a couple of places I got stuck, pressing 'w' advances time which triggers some events. There is a section you need documentation that was only provided in the game box. The story is more relevant now than it was in 1995.

older game but still cool to play

Amazing 6-8 hours experience