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There are few things in this world so iconic that, with only a partial description, people instantly know what you’re talking about. Men on a zebra crossing? Very clearly the Beatles (more accurately the Abbey Road album). Use the Force? Obviously Star Wars.
With that in mind, what do you think of when I say “Blue Box” or “Sonic ScrewDriver”? The answer, without a shadow of a doubt (I hope!), would be Doctor Who!

I’ll admit to having a great personal love for Doctor Who – I grew up watching the show as a small child. While I never hid behind anything, I do remember being quite worried by the sound of the monsters from time to time…
I was very annoyed when it went off air in 1989, suffering my way through the 1996 TV movie travesty (twice) to get my Dr Who fix, and couldn’t have been happier when it triumphantly returned in 2005.
Since that return I have yet to miss a single episode – I was even ready to stop drinking to watch the first episode of the latest series, until the landlord of the pub switched the TV over to the right channel.
So with that knowledge you can imagine how I reacted when I heard that there was a Dr Who game in production. Very excited..and expecting a lot!

Lets see how well the guys at Sumo Digital have lived up to my expectations with their episodic title, Doctor Who: The Adventure Games.

At the time of writing this, two of the four planned episodes for this game have been released, “City of the Daleks” and “Blood of the Cybermen”.
In both games you take on the role of the Doctor & his current companion, Amy Pond, switching between the two as the story demands. Playing in the third-person, the core of the gameplay is very similar to all point-and-click adventures, if simplified a little to make it more accessible for the younger players.
Each of these staples, such as finding the right item to interact with in the environment or finding the right NPC to talk to at that moment, are broken up well by both interesting mini-games and some well written cut scenes.

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