The Recruit -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Author(s): Mike Sousa, J. D. Berry, Jon Ingold, and Robb Sherwin Genre: Escape room/Puzzle Language: en-US First Publication Date: 2003 License: Freeware Rating: 3.0 (based on 11 ratings) ABOUT THE STORY Try your hand at the Real Life Interactive Gaming Simulacra! You'll face a variety of challenges and simulations and have a chance to win some money and great prizes. Apply today! EXTERNAL LINKS recruit.gam competition release Requires a TADS interpreter[1] EDITORIAL REVIEWS SPAG > I was slightly disappointed to discover a previously undeclared > collaboration of authors. I hadn't noticed changes in writing style, so the > final product must have been well edited. The concept is clever and the > implementation rewards player effort, but still I felt let down. Surely all > that brainpower (the names were of the famous variety) should have produced > more game for my money. Is that is a backhanded compliment? -- Virginia > Gretton >INVENTORY - Paul O'Brian writes about interactive fiction > After finishing The Recruit, I found myself just smiling, and thinking, > "Cool!" Like several of the other games in this comp, it was IF about IF, > but this time about just how much fun IF can be. It doesn't provide much in > the way of atmosphere or emotion, but it does pack the pleasures of good > writing and interesting, interconnected puzzles, and that's enough for me. REFERENCES [1]