The Adventure Games

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Doctor Who: The Adventure Games is a series of four graphic adventure video games, the first series was released in conjunction with Series 5 on the official website. A second series is planned to be released in 2011.

Promotion

Details regarding the games were announced on 21 April 2010. The games are being produced in conjunction with the Doctor Who TV production team, with Matt Smith and Karen Gillan lending their voices and likenesses to the games. In announcing the games, series producer Piers Wenger stated that they are part of Series 5: "There aren't 13 episodes of Doctor Who this year. There are 17 - four of which are interactive. Everything you see and experience within the game is part of the Doctor Who universe."[1]

Footage of the games was shown after Victory of the Daleks, revealing one "episode" would involve the Daleks and a destroyed London in 1963 with the tagline Fight The Daleks. This was later revealed to be City of the Daleks by Phil Ford, initially announced as being available on the 5th June[2]. A second series of another four episodes has been commisioned for release in 2011[3].

Availability

The first of the games, City of the Daleks, was released for download via the BBC's official Doctor Who website on 2nd June 2010 for PCs - several days earlier than the originally announced release date of 5th June. It was later revealed that the early release of the game was part of a system test as they gear up for the official release date. A trailer for the game was shown straight after Vincent and the Doctor on Saturday to mark its official launch [4]. A Macintosh version was later released on 15th June 2010.[5]

At present, the first four games are available to international audiences from Direct2Drive, for $3.70 American. However, Direct2Drive has controversially chosen not to make the Mac OS version of the game available, which has had the side-effect of preventing some gaming sites from reviewing the game.[6]

Robert Nashak from BBC Worldwide has also said that in the future, there may be retail versions of the games.[7]

Gameplay

The Adventure Games are a puzzle-based game: the player has to navigate obstacles with a specific pattern to them, crack codes, use objects to bypass obstacles, and navigate mazes. There is little margin for error: most hazards kill automatically, and (as the Eleventh Doctor) it can be hard to escape from his enemies once they've spotted you. The game follows a linear path: tasks have to be handled a certain way and in a certain sequence.

Playable characters

Playable characters in all the games are the Eleventh Doctor and Amy Pond and in the second series Rory Williams. However, the player is unable to choose which character to play with, as this is tied to in-game story progression. The only exception is at the end of TARDIS.

Collectables

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A Jelly Baby card.

Each episode has collectible cards, marked with a "DW", which provide extra information on the Doctor Who universe. There are fifty to collect in total, ten each of Doctors, Companions, Friends, Enemies, and Jelly Babies.

List of Collectables

Doctors:

Companions:

Friends:

Enemies:

Jelly babies

Cast and characters

Primary cast

Guest cast

Series one

Series two

Games

Series one

Episode
Number		 Title Writer Available Notes
1 City of the Daleks Phil Ford 5th June, 2010 Reappearance of the Daleks
2 Blood of the Cybermen Phil Ford 26th June, 2010 Reappearance of the Cybermen
3 TARDIS James Moran 27th August, 2010 First Appearance of The Entity
4 Shadows of the Vashta Nerada Phil Ford 22nd December, 2010 Reappearance of the Vashta Nerada

Series two

Episode
Number		 Title Writer Available Notes
1 The Gunpowder Plot[13] Phil Ford 31st October 2011[14] Return of the Rutans and the Sontarans [15]
2 TBA TBA TBA
3 TBA TBA TBA
4 TBA TBA TBA

Production crew

Producers

Executive producers

Writers

Notes

External links

References

  1. ↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/dw/news/bulletin_100408_01/adventure_games
  2. ↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/dw/news/bulletin_100422_01/Adventure_Games_Launch_in_Sheffield
  3. ↑ http://doctorwhotv.co.uk/more-doctor-who-games-next-year-9508.htm
  4. ↑ http://www.mcvuk.com/news/39261/BBC-explains-early-Doctor-Who-release
  5. ↑ http://gallifreynewsbase.blogspot.com/2010/06/city-of-daleks-now-available.html
  6. ↑ http://www.gamesetwatch.com/2010/07/d2d_selling_episodic_doctor_wh.php D2D Selling Episodic Doctor Who
  7. ↑ http://doctorwhotv.co.uk/torchwood-the-game-8995.htm
  8. ↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/dw/news/bulletin_111003_01/The_Gunpowder_Plot_More_Stars_More%20Monsters
  9. ↑ http://doctorwhotv.co.uk/the-gunpowder-plot-dated-preview-27026.htm/
  10. ↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/dw/news/bulletin_111003_01/The_Gunpowder_Plot_More_Stars_More%20Monsters
  11. ↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/dw/news/bulletin_111003_01/The_Gunpowder_Plot_More_Stars_More%20Monsters
  12. ↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/dw/news/bulletin_111003_01/The_Gunpowder_Plot_More_Stars_More%20Monsters
  13. ↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/dw/news/bulletin_110721_01/New_Adventure_Game_The_Explosive_Details
  14. ↑ http://doctorwhotv.co.uk/the-gunpowder-plot-dated-preview-27026.htm
  15. ↑ http://doctorwhotv.co.uk/rutans-return-in-the-gunpowder-plot-27114.htm

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