80 Days (2005 video game)

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80 Days
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Developer(s) Frogwares
Publisher(s)
Producer(s) Waël Amr
Pascal Ensenat
Designer(s) Aurélie Ludot
Programmer(s) Anton Schekhovtsov
Artist(s) Ludmila Kotsurba
Writer(s) Pascal Ensenat
Aurélie Ludot
Waël Amr
Platform(s) Microsoft Windows
Release
  • EU: 4 November 2005
  • NA: 12 December 2005
Genre(s) Adventure
Mode(s) Single-player

80 Days is a video game developed by Frogwares released in 2005 for Windows, based on the 1873 Jules Verne novel Around the World in Eighty Days .

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Gameplay

The game is a typical adventure game. The player must collect objects and go to particular locations to reach the next objective. However, there are 3 limitations: Time, Money and Fatigue. The latter may be ignored using means of transport and can be restored by eating food.

Plot

Matthew Lavisheart is a proud gentleman and engineer. He makes a bet, showing that he took part at inventing the most important gadgets at the time by delivering the documents that approve this in maximum 80 days. The problem is that these documents are scattered, in four of the most important cities of the world: Cairo, Bombay, Yokohama and San Francisco.

Matthew begs his nephew, Oliver, to get these documents for him. Oliver accepts, as he wants to escape a marriage that his parents want. And so, Oliver leaves for Cairo.

Reception

80 Days received "mixed" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. [2] PC Gamer US gave it 61% nearly a year after the game was released in the United States. [9]

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