Разработчик: Cockroach Inc.
Описание
Gateway
Замысел The Gateway Trilogy прост: нужно провести персонажа по череде комнат, решая загадки.
Gateway I & II
Gateway I и II были выпущены в бесплатный доступ в 2006 и 2007 годах. Первые две главы были полностью переделаны с чистого листа: в них добавили новую графику и музыку, а игровой процесс был доведен до ума. К тому же теперь вы можете поиграть и в совершенно новую третью главу.Если вы раньше не играли в игры серии Gateway, то это прекрасный повод начать. Ну, а если вы старый фанат, то вы просто обязаны пройти их вновь со всеми замечательными улучшениями.
Gateway III
Gateway III – самая длинная глава в серии. Совершенно новая часть, сюжет которой крайне отдаленно основан на неожиданных и пугающих сюжетных поворотах первых двух частей.Особенности
- Теперь это трилогия: поиграйте в новую главу довольно жуткой серии игр Gateway
- Полный ремастер: насладитесь переработанной музыкой, графикой и подтянутым игровым процессом
- История: погрузитесь в непонятный и запутанный сюжет
- Загадки: решайте хитрые головоломки в минималистичном окружении
- Высокая сложность: добавляет в игру 40 сложнейших загадок, чтобы вам жизнь мёдом не казалась
- Комментарии: слушайте полностью озвученные на русском рассуждения создателя игры о дизайнерских решениях, принятых во время разработки
Поддерживаемые языки: english, french, spanish - spain, polish, russian, swedish, italian, turkish, portuguese - brazil, czech, german
Системные требования
Windows
- ОС *: Windows 7 or later
- Процессор: 1.8 GHz processor
- Оперативная память: 1 GB ОЗУ
- Место на диске: 550 MB
- Дополнительно: Mouse recommended
Mac
- ОС: OSX Snow Leopard 10.6.3
- Процессор: 1.8 GHz processor
- Оперативная память: 1 GB ОЗУ
- Место на диске: 550 MB
- Дополнительно: Mouse recommended
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The most notable change in the first two games from their respective free versions is that most of the dialogue and/or what sound like distorted Dalek speech. And honestly, that change doesn't work to the games' benefit. It doesn't really enhance the atmosphere much, and sometimes it removes useful feedback.
Let me be abundantly clear: Gateway and Gateway 2 are worth the $10 by themselves, to ME. I have an extremely strong nostalgia for them, so I personally feel they are worth the admission. Gateway 3 is a massive letdown.
Gateway is a simple, minimalist, atmospheric point-and-click adventure game with a number of equally simple logic puzzles, alongside a handful of basic movement puzzles. These are by no means mind-breaking, but a handful can be a bit obtuse (in a charming sorta way). The atmosphere itself carries a lot of the game. There's just this looming, overarching feeling of "otherness" to everything. Like you belong here...but also don't at the same time. Narrative elements are sparse, but what is there is enough to raise an eyebrow and keep the intrigue going. The ultimate goal seemingly to escape the bizarre dimension you exist in.
Gateway 2 is like the first game, but better in almost every conceivable way. The puzzles are more varied, the atmosphere is even more foreboding, and the narrative is downright chilling at points. The central plot following a traumatized girl who is haunted by her mother's watchful eye, that you end up enraptured by immediately following your escape from the previous game. Not high art, but for a 2000s flash-based point-and-click, it was extremely solid. Being old enough now to better understand the concepts present in the narrative made me appreciate it even more.
Gateway 3 feels like a joke. Gone are the decent point-and-click puzzles. Instead we have a tedious series of tile-based puzzles. Now the previous two games did have tile puzzles, and they were a notable weak point, but they never really overstayed their welcome. Here...it's almost entirely tile puzzles. Additionally, all of the text dialogue is written in braille for some reason. Least until the ending. Which, speaking of. The little bit of story we get at the end feels like it takes a massive dump on everything that came before it. And it sucks that they seem to want to show it off the third game as a highlight.\
Overall, I recommend this collection on the first two games alone. Even if it's just out of curiosity. Just don't waste time on the third game.
I read some other reviews discussing bugs and performance issues, they must have since been fixed, as the only issues I've had so far were the shoddy collision detection regarding the Clone towards the end of the third game, and some minor text misplacement in the second game. Outside of that all three games performed flawlessly.
RECOMMENDED
This is straight from my childhood, I loved playing this on flash games. A fun way to spend your time as long as you go in expecting an Adobe Flash level of game. Not the worlds best game but a fun way to spend a few hours
Best Tags to Describe:
Puzzle - Platformer - Nostalgia
Concept • Aesthetics • Audio • Visual • Controls
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Story • World • Content • Difficulty • Ease-of-Achievements
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Worth-the-Price?
Yes ☐
No ☑ (Get it on sale)
Would I play again?
Yes ☑
No ☐
1 and 2 are real interesting. 3 is kind of a drag but i still enjoyed it. played the originals years ago and was excited to finally remember the name.
the third game i believe is the biggest, and the puzzles get very repetitive. either way, love the tone and atmosphere.
I got this game because I played it on an old flash game website. Gateway one and two were fine, I recommend reducing graphics to keep it from lagging though. As for the 3rd game, just use a walkthrough. (I ended up not finishing 3 because it crashed and lagged too much)
Wow! They released one of my favorite Flash game series from childhood on Steam and they are remastered too with a new sequel? Great!
I have a lot of nostalgia for Gateway 1 and 2. And it's nice they made a third one to wrap up the trilogy. These games aren't anything too special but they are cool little point and click puzzle adventure games. I like the blocky art style and the ambient music. If you played these games during the Flash era you will definitely like this collection! Otherwise they are a nice little distraction for a couple of hours. And in my opinion that's all these games need to be.
Three point & click puzzle games, each longer than the last. The first two parts are almost perfect. The third game is quite different, mostly based on tile puzzles, not classic adventuring. But it's still fun.
the gateaway trilogy is a blast from the past.
the two first games remain mainly good, while the new third one suffers from repetetive puzzles
overall the majority is good but don't come too excited for the new stuff.
I'm not in the minority when I say it was disappointing. I came here primarily to play Gateway 3, as most people would, but instead of creative and clever puzzles like in the first two games, I instead encountered a series of repetitive tile puzzles and baffling puzzles which necessitated the use of a walkthrough.
If you were a fan of the original 2, don't expect a great 3rd entry. Maybe just buy it on sale.
With Gateway 3 : 3/10
Without Gateway 3 : 8/10
Got to to the second set of light puzzles on The Gateway 3 and gave up. Not because they are hard, they really aren't. It's just a tedious mechanic, which really isn't enjoyable.
The thought that I had another 8 or so screens of hoping I don't miss click and mess up the pattern I'm working on just isn't fun. It's not puzzle solving, you have proven you can solve the puzzles after the first couple. It's just repeating a the same thing to make the game longer.
1&2 were good though.
Totally recommend it!!
Such a great puzzle game & obviously a lot of "outside of the box" creativity, thought, humour & planning has been applied by the producers of this wonderful game. I still chuckle when thinking of that poor guy hooked up to the computer while attempting to do math questions without getting zapped! lol..... I think i saw that they are the same producers who created the masterpiece called "The Dream Machine" which i am also presently enjoying. I don't think any of the games i have bought up to now has made me laugh so much such as Alice's explanation to Victor of her vivid dream on the cruise ship....the humour & again the creativity is outstanding. I can't fault either game even if i tried (if a game(s) can be called a work of art then both these deserve the title.) Good going, producers & i will look forward to any future games done by u! BRAVO!!
The first two Gateway games (The original ones uploaded to flash sites back in the day) are absolute must plays. Gateway 1 is essentially just a tutorial for Gateway 2, but Gateway 2 is brilliant, a masterpiece of ludonarrative harmony. I don't want to say anything about the story because it's something you should just experience for yourself.
That being said, Gateway 3 adds nothing, it is a bombardment of non stop dry meaningless similar puzzles in a conceptually interesting but very much underutilized environment. It had one section of "gameplay" (you walking around repeatedly going through screen transitions) that was somewhat gripping only because I thought it was building up to some great story section. It wasn't, the ending is abrupt, unsatisfying, and as far as I can tell, weird for weirdnesses sake.
The remaking of the first 2 games is fine I suppose. They don't change too much, thankfully. I'm not sure but I think the music was swapped out in Gateway 2. There was one track that's literally haunted me my whole life since I first heard it years ago, it gave/still gives me instant chills, but I don't think that track is in the game anymore. HUGE loss imo. That might be wrong though, the game is very buggy so perhaps the music just didn't play correctly or perhaps I simply missed it somehow (I don't think that would be possible, it's a VERY striking piece of ambient music)
Speaking of, performance is terrible. This thing is still running on Adobe Flash all these years later and it hurts. It will be a stuttery finnicky mess regardless of your computer power. It's not a matter of processing power it just inherently sucks, the old website versions ran much nicer, which is strange 'cause that ran on flash too obviously, not sure what the problem is. This is a widespread issue, so it's definitely the game and not me.
All in all, this bundle is not worth it for the new game or even for the remasters. While the remasters are arguably slightly superior in some ways to the old versions, the performance issues drag everything down below original quality. The ONLY thing that you could justify picking this up is the Developer's Commentary, even that is somewhat disappointing though, as the developer used text-to-speech for all of it. I was looking forward to hearing the dev speak passionately and transparently about parts of the creative process, behind the scenes stories, etc. and while you get some of that, it's all conveyed to you through text and the apathetic droning of the TTS bot, taking much of the magic away.
Here's my recommendation to you, go download flashpoint or some other flash game archive, and play the original 2 Gateway games for free. They're fantastic, and you are missing nothing by avoiding 3, in fact the randomness of 3's halfhearted attempt to connect with the first two games actively makes the story worse in my opinion, just pretend it doesn't exist.
If you REALLY want to hear the dev's commentary and are intrigued to check out Gateway 3/the remade versions of 1+2, then at least wait for a sale or something. 10 bucks for this is highway robbery. I have a lot of respect for the dev as they've made some really amazing stuff. Gateway 2 of course, but I've also heard amazing things about The Dream Machine (not played it yet). This, however, is a total mess and misses the entire point of what made Gateway 2 so incredible.
It's worth it if you get it on sale, and were a fan of the original flash games. Otherwise this game has a slim market. I still had a couple hours' worth of fun though.
Great little puzzler! Took me about 3 hours to beat.
Graphics are nice, the puzzles not too complicated, and there's even
a storyline in there, which wasn't obvious to me at first glance.
This is a puzzle game of moderate difficulty (provided you set the Options to Hard for the third sequence). It has an interesting storyline, simple but pleasant graphics, and enough content to keep most players going for a few hours if you aim to pick up the achievements (some of which are challenging).
The interface is great. It only requires mouse to move the character and access inventory, so you can relax while you play.
As one of the earlier players I found a few bugs which required restarting the game (and it was not obvious that the puzzles were no longer solvable), but most of these have reportedly been addressed by a patch since then. Also, I think the Funkytown achievement is broken because it relies on using an algorithm that works on an iPhone but doesn't make the right sounds on the phone you have to play it on, and you should be able to solve everything in a game without highly specialized knowledge.
In summary, this is a great puzzle game with an interesting story. I give it 8 out of 10.
If you played parts 1 and 2 when they were free, online games, then you already know what to expect from parts 1 and 2 here. Chapter 1 is almost entirely puzzle based and linear; enter a room, solve a puzzle, enter the next room. Chapter 2 interweaves the puzzles with a story, letting the game elements create the tale of a young woman and her mother. Chapter 3 has both of these... but unfortunately, only really has half of each aspect. Puzzles are mostly tile based, guiding your blocky avatar around a path often much fiddlier than the game is designed for. They're not the only puzzles in the game, but it lacks the same diversity that the previous chapters had. Likewise, there is a story that leads indirectly from Chapter 2, but it's much less defined and nowhere near as important. If you're expecting The Dream Machine 2, you'll be disappointed. If you come in wanting a short puzzle game with a surreal, minimalist atmosphere, give it a shot.
Listen to the other negative reviews. We've been waiting years for gateway 3 and it was a total letdown. The gamr slows down after an hour of playing and you can easily softlock yourself with how many glitches there are. The developer has ignored all my tweets to them about bugs. I just wanted this game to succeed but it's lazy, expensive, and feels like a copycat of the original 2 games.
Crushing disappointment
I liked the first two Gateway games. They were short, but inventive, and had a wonderful atmosphere of dread and the feeling that you weren't supposed to be there. Nothing was explained, but that was okay. They were just short little web-based games that you could finish in a few minutes.
So, given the first two are still available for free, the main attraction to this package is Gateways 3. It's much longer than the first two, but is that a good thing? Well, it would be if there were any creativity. The bulk of the gameplay is made up of mind-numbing tile puzzles (The kind where you have to trace a path without backtracking). There are TWENTY EIGHT of them here, and they make up the bulk of the playing time. They're frustrating, tedious, add nothing except padding to make the game last longer. And since the game has such awful pathfinding, it's safest to more your character one, single, tile at a time...which makes everything take six times longer.
But don't worry! This release includes a special "Hard mode" with forty extra puzzles! Take a guess what they are....
It really doesn't help that the developers are still using Flash for some insane reason. This means it's a huge memory and CPU hog....it'll crash frequently, accidentally right clicking locks the game up because that's something it can't cope with...it'll slow to a crawl after a few minutes of play because Flash's garbage collection SUCKS....and the Steam integration is broken. People are reporting all over the place that achievements aren't working and the Steam overlay doesn't work.
There are also bugs which make the game unwinnable. Objects vanish when you click on them, NPCs don't do what they're supposed to, and save games don't save your state correctly causing problems when you restore them.
Oh, and the game window insists on drawing over everything else, even if you put it in Windows mode. That is apparently a design decision, according to one of the devs. That's just downright rude.
Very, very disappointing. I had such high hopes after The Dream Machine, and made the mistake of buying this almost immediately upon release. Please don't do the same.
:edit: After their first patch, they've decided to reduce the number of tile puzzles you have to complete. This...isn't really a solution to a basic design flaw of the game..it just makes it shorter. They've also stopped making the game window draw over everything else.
But it's still extremely repetitive, and full of bugs. You can drop items and not pick them up again, games can get into unwinnable situations by accident, save games don't store your character position correctly which can make one achievement impossible if you don't have an earlier save...
Really great. Not quite as good (or on the same scale) as The Dream Machine, but still really great. Gateway 1 and 2 don't feel too vastly changed from their freeware versions, but it's a nice package with them. And Gateway 3 seems different from the first two, but also really good (so far).
Gateway 1 and 2 are fairly short, I don't know how long Gateway 3 is yet (other than being significantly longer than 1 or 2 based on the Steam description) but the length of everything combined might not be so massive.
I played Gateway 1 and 2 online years ago and I was pleasantly surprised when i eventually learned that it was made by the team who would go on to make Dream Machine. So when I heard they were remastering the games I was looking forward to it. The original two games are still fun games, but the new game, 3, is where I just completely soured on it and why I don't recommend it. 3 is assumingly the main bulk of this game and its just a step down to the previous games in practically every way, which is baffling because Dream Machine is so good. The game just threw a slog of crappy light tile puzzles at me and I just gave up in frustration, and I'm far from an adventure game newbie. The first two games had a variety of puzzles but 3 is just hammering in this really bad puzzle at you. There is most likely more different kind of puzzles after the four prolonged series of light tile puzzles but I refuse to bash my head against the wall to find out when I have better games to play. Very disappointing.
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| Разработчик | Cockroach Inc. |
| Платформы | Windows |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 15.01.2025 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 59% положительных (34) |