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Although this game was designed by the creators of Atlantzone, and the player will again play the part of Rodrigue Grandcœur, the hero of the first adventure, Amertis cannot be considered as its sequel. Petronille has asked Rodrigue to help her sell her uncle's dilapidated, abandoned house — a rambling old pile emptied of almost everything except for one fabulous secret. Well, it isn't long before Petronille disappears into thin air up in the attic and it is up to you, as Rodrigue, to track her down and bring her back. To do this, you will have to discover and then learn how to use a strange jeweled metal icon to take you to the even stranger lands of Amertis. There you will at last leave the world of photo realism and enter the fantastic realm of whatever 3D software app the team used to render the backgrounds. You see, Petronille's uncle was an inventor (are there uncles in games who are not?) and he concocted that jeweled icon to transport people to worlds of his own making where toy figures come to life. The oddly flirty Barbie dolls inhabiting the South Seas volcanic island, for instance, are the most amusing collection of coquettes you’ve ever run across. On the island inhabited by ceramic garden gnomes, you will meet some extremely bourgeois French blowhards. The other two islands have been populated by battery-powered metal robots and plastic figure Native American Indians. They too, are all quite French. |
