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The Messenger (2000 Video Game)
''The Messenger'' (original French language, French title: ''Louvre: L'Ultime Malédiction'', "Louvre: The Final Curse") is an adventure game released in Europe in 2000, and in North America in February 2001. It was co-developed by 4x Technologies, Arxel Tribe and Visual Impact and jointly published by Wanadoo Edition, Canal+ Multimedia and the Réunion des Musées Nationaux. Gameplay Plot The United States Secret Service, Secret Service Agent Morgane Sinclair has been charged with the mission to retrieve four mystical artifacts called Satan's Keys from the Louvre Museum. These four keys, when joined together, cause complete global annihilation. Morgan goes back in time to three periods in time when various kings used the Louvre as their residential palaces: Charles V of France, Charles V Mediaeval period, Henry IV of France, Henry IV Renaissance period, Louis XV 1789 French Revolution period, and then return safely to present day. In this race against evil and against time, she n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
4x Technologies
4X (abbreviation of ''Explore, Expand, Exploit, Exterminate'') is a video game genre, subgenre of Strategy game, strategy-based video game, computer and board games, and includes both turn-based strategy, turn-based and real-time strategy titles. The gameplay generally involves imperialism, building an empire. Emphasis is placed upon economic and technological development, as well as a range of military and non-military routes to supremacy. The earliest 4X games borrowed ideas from board games and 1970s text-based user interface, text-based computer games. The first 4X computer games were turns, rounds and time-keeping systems in games#Turn-based, turn-based, but real-time strategy, real-time 4X games were also common. Many 4X computer games were published in the mid-1990s, but were later outsold by other types of strategy games. Sid Meier's ''Civilization (video game), Civilization'' is an important example from this formative era, and popularized the level of detail that late ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
