When I first played The Dig, back in 1995, I wasn't too convinced that I would like it as much as any other LucasArts game. The game interface presented a serious change from the well known Scumm system and the fact of having no verbs for actions left me a bit annoyed. The conventional LucasArts point-and-click system changed to a simpler version and, instead of selecting actions and thenWhen I first played The Dig, back in 1995, I wasn't too convinced that I would like it as much as any other LucasArts game. The game interface presented a serious change from the well known Scumm system and the fact of having no verbs for actions left me a bit annoyed. The conventional LucasArts point-and-click system changed to a simpler version and, instead of selecting actions and then click the things on the screen, we simply clicked things on screen and made them happen. When I realized, I was just loving the new interface and things started to run easily, after all.
After a very direct and pleasurable introduction, we take the role of NASA's commander Boston Low. Along with other crew members, journalist Maggie Robbins and archaeologist Brink, our mission is successfully destroy a meteor approaching Earth and make sure the team gets back alive. But, during the mission, something unexpected happens and the three crew members get teleported to an unknown galaxy, far away from their own. Trapped within an apparently dead alien world, our main mission changes and the priority of the team is to get back to Earth.
I will not talk about any important detail of the story. All I can tell you is that The Dig is, by far, one of the best graphic adventure games ever done! Amazing story, great atmosphere all along and excellent graphics make it extremely appealing to adventure fans. The plot is so deep and well conceived that I remember crying at the end of the game. Yes, crying with my full 18! The Dig revealed itself as an life lesson, a beautiful piece of art (videogame) capable of making us reach the peaks of sensitivity!
Even with great games like The Secret of Monkey Island, Full Throttle, Day of the Tentacle or Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, The Dig was also the first game from LucasArts to present a mature content instead of a comic story and characters. The final result was great, I assure you! The Dig is not a very long game, but it surely can entertain you for days and make you wish a movie version was made!
Just play it and you will be glad you did it. After that, you'll never be the same again!… Expand
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