Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers | |
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Developer(s) | Sierra On-Line |
Publisher(s) | Sierra On-Line |
Director(s) | Jane Jensen[3] Bill Crow |
Producer(s) | Robert Holmes[3] John E. Grayson |
Designer(s) | Jane Jensen |
Programmer(s) | Tom DeSalvo[3] |
Artist(s) | Terrence C. Falls Darlou Gams Gloria Garland |
Writer(s) | Jane Jensen Bridget McKenna |
Composer(s) | Robert Holmes |
Series | Gabriel Knight |
Engine | SCI2 |
Platform(s) | MS-DOS, Macintosh, Windows |
Release | |
Genre(s) | Point-and-click adventure |
Mode(s) | Single-player |
Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers is a 1993 point-and-click adventure game, created by Jane Jensen, developed and published by Sierra On-Line, and released for MS-DOS, Macintosh, and Windows on December 17, 1993. The game's story, featuring the voices of Tim Curry, Leah Remini, and Mark Hamill in the CD-ROM version, focuses on Gabriel Knight, a struggling novelist, whose decision to use a spate of recent murders around New Orleans as material for a new novel, leads him into a world of voodoo magic and the truth about his family's past as supernatural fighters.
Although the game was not a commercial success, it received favourable reviews from critics for its story and voice cast, along with its graphical presentation. The game later spawned a series, with a sequel, The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight Mystery, released in 1995; the game also received a novel adaptation by Jensen, published in 1997.
A remake of the game to mark its 20th anniversary, Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers 20th Anniversary Edition, was released in 2014 for Windows, Mac, iPad, and Android, featuring a remastering of the graphics and music, along with a new voice cast and minor changes to the arrangement of story events
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