Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers

Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers
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
SeriesGabriel Knight
EngineSCI2
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

  1. ^ "Release Information for Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers". www.mobygames.com. Archived from the original on 2008-05-03. Retrieved 2008-05-25.
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  3. ^ a b c Jensen, Jane (1993). "Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers Technical Manual" (PDF). Sierra Online, Inc. pp. 35–36.