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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Greg Howson

Wii new home for point and click games?

Monkey Island, Broken Sword, Longest Journey - all fantastic and still highly playable point and click adventure games. Sadly the genre has retreated over the last decade, with new titles rare, usually awful and generally confined to the unglamorous PC budget market. But things could be about to change. Sam and Max, the venerable adventure brand recently revived via an episodic series of PC downloads, is coming to Wii. And this makes perfect sense. Brains not brawn are what point and click adventures require and clearly this is in tune with the Brain Training/family Wii audience. As the press release rightly says, "the game's easy-to-use interface is ideal for a broad consumer audience." Get the interface right - item manipulation could be a pain with the Wiimote - and the Wii could become the new home for point and click games. Could we be seeing the rebirth of a much-loved genre?

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