T-Zero

Published: October 1, 2011 - 79 downloads

Year
1991
Genre
Adventure
Theme
Interactive Fiction
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Description of T-Zero

To shortly resume T-Zero, it's about adventure and interactive fiction. It was done by in 1991. Feel free to download and try it!


One of the most underrated IF titles ever made, t-zero is a great pun-filled game of epic proportions. Long before the advent of Inform and TADS, two popular modern-day IF authoring languages, t-zero features a powerful and versatile parser that understands hundreds of words. It understands even sophisticated verbs not commonly seen in IF, such as FIND, WHERE, and IMAGINE, the latter which allows you to visualize objects and locations you have not encountered. The beginning premise of the game recalls Trinity and Curses, two of my most favorite IF, in its ‘twilight-zone’ mood and basic goal. Your objective is to locate six objects "scattered across ages and landscapes", which are to be transported "somehow...to progressively future time zones where they can right the troubled times.” But before you can say “oh no, not another time-travel game!”, you will soon find t-zero different from any other game you have played before. It is a heady, literate mixture whose locations seem inspired by Lewis Carroll, premise by H.G. Wells, and puzzles by Terry Pratchett. The result is a wonderful experience you will not easily forget. The puzzles are not hard, but anyone who is not familiar with English idioms or Western pop culture will have a more difficult time than others. The turn-the-stones puzzle and getting across the suspension bridge puzzle in particular are simply ingenious. In short, underdogs in the genre doesn’t get any better than this, folks. And yes, the game refers to itself as t-zero, without capital letters, apparently to fit in with the many references from T.S. Elliott's poems. A must-have! Note: The game was released in 1991 as shareware, although the game is identical to registered version, so I took the liberty of labeling it “freeware” here for the sake of consistency (typical shareware games are “cut-down” portion of the registered version).
Review by HOTUD

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