Gateway 2 is a really cool game. It's a point and click adventure reminiscent of the Spellcasting series. By point and click I mean typing. You can use both. As a science fiction nut, I personally was ecstatic about playing this game. The action gets intense right off the bat, with terrorists trying to kill you. You then find what the terrorists are after, and through about a three hour adventure (real time, if you know what you're doing) avert the dastardly plans of these same terrorists.
I believe the game has aged really well. This is the first DOS game I ever played that had moving cut scenes, akin to in game movies. The quality of the movies is astounding considering when this game was made. I mean they're in 3-D, people! The animation in these scenes is fairly flawless. By fairly flawless, I mean who's going to believe that spaceships can be purple? Oh, well, I guess that's where the fiction in science fiction comes from.
The game itself has a pretty good plot. Personally, I'd like to see a movie made on this, but I'm just crazy or something. It’s written out like a very gripping book: you never want to stop playing until
you get to the end, then you want to replay it just for the heck of it. The story is just that great. I mean it's freaking awesome. Okay, so some people won't think so, but still, I really like it.
There is a certain area of the game that you will spend a lot of time on called the Artifact. It's this abnormal spacecraft. It has these zoo areas on it, that is really, really cool. Ever wanted to know what life is like on a different planet? Well, now you know! You never know, some of the alien terrain may seem familiar.
The most annoying part of this game is when you forget an important item early on in the game, then find out you actually need said item later on in the game when it's impossible to get it. Of course you have to replay the entire game up to that point, which can undoubtedly be more than frustrating. I would definitely have to still recommend this game to any adventure or science fiction freak like myself.
