Gabriel Knight® 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned

I remember when I bought this game in its own CD case all wrapped up ready to play. I bought it from Walmart! This was back in the day when you can only buy PC games at the store, instead of online, when modem was a thing and AOL existed. This is a very old game, but I still love it to this very day! I remember running Tim Curry's line "Is anyone there? I would like to buy a bike!" over and over! Why? Because I thought it was hilarious for some reason. You'll need to save this game consistently in order to beat it. Luckily, you can save it any time during the game. It doesn't have auto-save, so you'll have to save it yourself. Even though this game was made in 1999, it has remained one of my favorite games I've ever played. Gabriel Knight is the funniest person I've ever known! I really like his girlfriend too, or colleague. I've always been fascinated with vampires and I've read all the Anne Rice books. This is a very nice addition to the history and the realm of vampires! If you like vampires or Dracula, you'll love playing this game. It does have a bug, but you can download the fix easily. I think it's definitely worth playing.

PLEASE INSERT CD 1 TO CONTINUE. That's all you need to know to have a review of this game. Simply. Does. Not. Work. Steam WILL NOT refund you! The game doesn't even start or anything. NO refunds! P.S. There's a guide in the community workshop that you USED TO be able to use to fix this game. It doesn't work anymore. Or it never did and the dozens of people who upvoted it lied. Anyway, in the end, Steam is the biggest liar and needs to be shut down.

Reading other player's reviews and opinions I was expecting a way worse game, but this is great. Granted it took me close to an hour of tinkering to make it work, but with dgvoodoo2 the experience has been flawless until now. Just turn up the gamma ingame after installing dgvoodoo if it makes it darker, like it happened in my case. First impressions: the 3d world is very detailed and the best part is the camera that has total freedom, ie you can look under a bed, in a trashcan, essentially anything from any angle. It's kinda gimmicky to move it around, but a couple feature makes it easier (default cameras for every room, auto inspect etc). Gone is the omni-click from GK2 that summed up every possible action and instead here for every object you have a list of different possible actions (look, open/close, pickup, talk, operate, use, think etc). The town I'm in now seems fully explorable and pretty big. It seems the kind of game that rewards observant, thorough players. It started very well. Also Tim Curry is back. UPDATE: ended the thing, I can confirm all my first impressions, and that the game runs smoothly until.the end once the tedious setup it's over. Final rate: 11/10, probably the best adventure game there is period, surely better than its 2 predecessors. They poured a lot of development juice into this game and it shows. Technically and from a story and lore viewpoint. The humor is also overkill, like.. every single comment or exchange with anyone is too freaking funny. The scope of the game is massive too, maybe too much, and towards the end there are a couple of very badly designed enigmas as a result, along with some other little issues that couldn't evidently be polished out in time for release. If it's so great, then why isn't this game more acclaimed? well apparently the adventure game era was over by the time GK3 hit the shelf, and now steam sells a broken version that requires the user to fix it woth external tools and sources in order to play it. BUT IT IS WORTH IT. Way better than any indiana jones or monkey island

Although it's a little tricky to run on newer computers, it is absolutely worth it. The best of an already excellent series. It is an early foray into 3D animation, so it's polygon animation that is, in some cases, hilariously awful (like Gabriel's partner Grace looks like she's suffering from severe kyphosis/hunchback and everyone's hair is angular). Again, just look past the silliness of the graphics. If you have a thing (I do) for the lost treasure of the Templars, this is one of its best iterations It brings in the material from Holy Blood, Holy Grail (and the writer didn't get sued over it like Dan Brown because she credited this source), which is that the Holy Grail relates to the bloodline of Christ. Any more would be spoilers, but that's just the beginning of the mystery. The puzzles are great, the voicing is great, the writing is great. One thing I really hated about the Syberia games is there were very few things you could highlight that weren't part of the main story. Tim Curry again voices Gabriel, and his dialogue options are hilarious. In fact, click any time you get the "light bulb" icon on anything. You get info, and when you don't, you get Gabriel cracking wise as only Curry can. Also Mosley from the first game has returned, and he's still the perfect foil for Gabe's wit. Grace gets to run a program on an in-game computer. Again, if you've ever flirted with the mystical and things like sacred geometry, you will love this. The interpretation of the treasure and how they handle it is what keeps me coming back (on my 4th playthrough) and, because you can beat the game without scoring all points, it really does have replay value. If you have mourned the loss of the great old Sierra games, grab this!

Yeah, give us your money, we don't support our product at all. Thanky you, have fun with a dead game, bye. edit: And additionally, we don't fill out the stuff we need to sell our game in germany. Man how lazy/greedy can someone be?

Once you get over the initial awkwardness of how the game works, it's really fantastic. Other than a few rare instances, the puzzles are actually very intuitive, so I don't understand the moon logic criticism that has been stubbornly attached to this game. It's far easier to play this game without a guide than GK1 or GK2. Have to mount an CD image to play, but other than that I didn't have to jump through any technical hoops. Played with a controller, I made bindings for the DualSense, feel free to check out my controller profile. I found it to work very well. I didn't label it, but the right trigger is a Ctrl+Click which focuses the camera on anything of interest, which streamlines the whole thing. Left trigger for left clicking, right stick for mouse. You can figure out the rest! There's a guide to set it up on Steam Deck that's a little more complex, but it's easy to follow. Really recommend this one. It's really well written, unique, and oddly ahead of its time.

Third and last chapter of the GK saga. Old and clunky commands, but the story, my old friends, the story...

One of the best Jane Jensen's works in terms of story and game design. The only downside is the voiceover of Gabriel, somehow the actor made a complete jerk out of him, and it is out of character. Be warned, to play this game today you most likely need to install dgVoodoo drivers, otherwise the game will crash a lot. It is free though. But the game is highly recommended if you like classic adventure with murder investigations and historical references.

Wow what kind of bizarre ride was that!? The puzzles were annoying and the game crashed 41 times but damn the game is good and Gabe is good. I am craving another Gabe entry, I need to see Gabe and Grace reunite!

what i dont like is i payed for this game and its not lodding at all