LucasArts' enthralling graphic adventure The Dig begins when an asteroid the size of a small city threatens to collide with Earth. A select group of astronauts and experts is assembled to meet the deadly meteor in space and blast it from its destructive course. As the group reaches the asteroid, something goes terribly wrong and three members of the crew are transported to an alien world beyond their wildest imaginations.
The alien planet has been abandoned -- a fact that immediately prompts several questions. Who lived there? What were they like? Why did they leave? The answers will come but first you've got a lot of exploring to do. You'll need to operate alien machinery, decipher a seemingly incomprehensible new language and venture through a vast subterranean city to discover the truth behind this exceptional mystery. With every piece of the story you uncover, additional layers of wonder shine through.
- The Dig is an interesting 1995 sci-fi adventure game that can now be obtained at discount. It has excellent background music that really sets the atmosphere for the alien world your character explores.
- Help dig channels for water to put out the poor pineapples, a fun game that develops logic.
- (video game) The Dig is a point-and-click adventure game developed by LucasArts and released in 1995 as a CD-ROM for PC and Macintosh computers. Like other LucasArts adventure games, it uses the SCUMM video game engine. It features a full voice-acting cast, including voice actors Robert Patrick and Steve Blum, and a digital orchestral.
- The Dig is a point-and-click adventure game developed by LucasArts and released in 1995 as a CD-ROM for PC and Macintosh computers. Like other LucasArts adventure games, it uses the SCUMM video game engine. It also features a full voice-acting cast, including notable voice actors Robert Patrick and Steven Blum, and a digital orchestral score. The game uses a combination of drawn two.
Dig up into the vault Then, talk outside with Mel and go back to Bobbi. Go together to the tunnel where a robot constructed by the freed prisoner will let you break through some walls - the grey ones that look as if they were made of clay.
Alongside this fascinating plot are some very nice visuals. You'll be impressed with the scope of the alien landscape and may often feel as if you are right there with the displaced crew of astronauts. From the top of an immense cliff to the bowels of the mysterious underground city, the graphics complement the story perfectly.
Your viewpoint character, Commander Boston Low, is a likable man who must find a way off the strange planet while keeping his two companions -- Dr. Ludger Brink and reporter Maggie Robbins -- out of danger. Brink and Robbins help out quite a bit if you know what to ask them but as the story progresses you may also come to wonder just how much you can trust these two characters. This is owed in part to each character's excellent dialogue, which was written by Hugo and Nebula award winning author Orson Scott Card.
The interface is a variation of LucasArts' simple point-and-click method, an easy-to-use system that provides a nearly limitless number of choices for character and object manipulation. If you want your character to do something, chances are there's a way to make it happen.
The puzzles are also quite good. While there are only a few real brain twisters, most take a good degree of thought and all can be figured out with enough time. Some of the most enjoyable ones require teamwork between you and one or both of your companions, so make sure you keep track of your friends' whereabouts.
The Dig is the kind of adventure we've all come to expect from LucasArts. With an imaginative story, an attractive visual backdrop and a wealth of intelligent puzzles, it belongs near the top of the adventure game class.
Graphics: Breathtaking visual design.
Sound: Good voices, great soundtrack.
Enjoyment: If you like thought-provoking adventure, you'll like The Dig.
Replay Value: Like most graphic adventures, you'll only play it once.
A group of scientists discovers an asteroid that is on its way to a collision with the Earth. Is there any way to prevent the disaster? Boston Low, a NASA veteran, is sent to command a space expedition on the asteroid. Accompanied by the journalist Maggie Robbins and the archaeologist Brink, Boston investigates the asteroid and finds a strange structure that undoubtedly belongs to an alien civilization. During the course of investigations, the team finds itself on a seemingly deserted planet. They have no knowledge of the planet and no possibility of going back. Will they ever discover the secret of this strange world and find a way to get home?
'Dig' is a point-and-click adventure game with a simple one-cursor interface and more complex puzzles than usually encountered in LucasArts' adventures. Despite having a serious story, the game follows in many ways the tradition of LucasArts' humorous adventures.
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Read Full DescriptionThe Dig is a highly underrated sci-fi adventure, one of the few releases from LucasArts that were not commercial blockbusters.
I think part of the reason for this is that most people who bought the game expected The Dig to be another zany, humorous cartoon adventure in the same vein as Monkey Island or Day of The Tentacle. Contrary to their expectation, The Dig is a serious, “hard” sci-fi game – a genre that definitely has a much narrower audience than cartoon adventures. In addition to this niche premise, longtime LucasArts fans may be frustrated with most puzzles in the game, which are much more challenging than in previous LucasArts games (although I find them all to be quite logical).
The game therefore suffered the same fate as Sierra’s outstanding RAMA years later: a difficult game that appeals only to a limited audience, namely fans of hard sci-fi. If you belong to the game’s intended audience, though, you’ll likely enjoy the game despite a somewhat cliché plot. The involvement of celebrities such as Orson Scott Card (dialogue script), Steven Spielberg (original idea), and Sean Clark (director), should make The Dig much more original than it is. Not that it is without merit—the opening scenes are quite breathtaking, with excellent graphics and grand Wagnerian-style musical score: an Asteroid Attila, which suddenly appeared in orbit around the Earth, is threatening the world population with unavoidable collision in the near future. Your alter ego is Commander Boston Low, who together with geologist Ludger Brink, and journalist Maggie Robbins, form NASA's team for a mission to detonate Attila, blow it off its deadly path and save the world. Once on the asteroid, the team inadvertently triggers controls that transform the rock into a crystal-like spaceship, which immediately took the trapped human team to an abandoned planet on the other side of the galaxy. Being safely transported to an unknown alien world, but unable to stay together in the ever-changing fantastic world, your team breaks up. Because Maggie seeks independence and leaves, and Brink dies stupidly, you are soon on your own, struggling to explore and understand the new, mind-twisting surroundings.
Gameplay is typical point-and-click affair, with a vastly simplified interface: one mouse click is enough to do everything in the game, from talking to characters to manipulating the environment. As mentioned earlier, most puzzles are challenging, but none is illogical. Even those that require a lot of trial and error make sense (naturally that’s the only feasible approach when encountering alien technologies). Voice acting is somewhat inferior to the best of LucasArts’ CD-talkies (say, Sam ‘n Max Hit The Road), but it’s adequate. Although mundane, the plot is quite engrossing and retains consistency throughout the game, and there are even some plot twists to make things more interesting.
I thoroughly enjoyed The Dig and expect other fans of hard sci-fi to feel the same. Anyone who expects another clever, light-hearted LucasArts adventure will be disappointed, however. My biggest gripe is with the ending, which is too abrupt and “Hollywood-y” (i.e. everyone living happily ever after) that it’s a letdown. Also, given the exploratory/trial-and-error nature of most puzzles, alternatives to solving them would have been welcome. These are minor gripes, though. Two thumbs up for this underdog!
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Inukaze2019-09-290 point
LOL i just had the Spanish CD version for MSDOS xD
Chuck2018-07-100 point
Can i transfer these files the dig to my computer
Steve2017-11-27-1 point
Also unless you have a FULL rip of the CD, you won't get any of the cutscene videos (so the ending, etc). This download does not contain those, so don't bother.
ramtin2017-01-201 point
why in games full thruttle don,t have exe , imuse, file for run in dos 6,22
i want orginal file for dos run in old my pc please
Seanham2472015-09-132 points
Remember playing this game when i was young intresting to solve the puzzles and send the crew back to earth
roy2014-11-220 point DOS version
it's available on steam in multiple languages for a few bucks
netrom2013-01-110 point DOS version
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coolest gane i have had back in the days
DeepSurfer2012-11-290 point DOS version
Yes...it is in french...
all titles here of this games have (fr) for notice that it is in french language.
many games here have titles with other language.
Necro2012-02-11-1 point DOS version
Excellent game. this is a rip of the CD but unfortunately it is in FRENCH
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