Sierra's Gabriel Knight 2 - Review

Sierra's Gabriel Knight 2: The Beast Within is the sequel to one of the best horror adventure games ever made. Released in 1995 by Jane Jensen, this FMV game is unlike any other and should not be missed by fans of high quality mystery and horror stories.

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[IPKISS4LIFE]

I really enjoyed this. Thanks for taking the time to do a review. My wife and I have done a series of videos looking at the locations used in Gabriel Knight 2 - basically going around Germany to the locations and interspersing game footage (and poking fun at the characters where appropriate). I'm currently in the process of rebuilding my channel (the original was lost due to a google account problem) reposting all the videos. Love the game, love the characters and the atmosphere :)

[MetalJesusRocks]

@IPKISS4LIFE - Man, that is pretty cool! You are definitely a hardcore fan of the game! A few years ago I traveled through Germany and Austria and visited many similar sites as well. Such a beautiful part of the world. And Neuenstein Castle is truly stunning! I got to tour that and it was incredible.

[TheBigJB]

Nice review and great to see some clips from that game. I must have played it 3 or 4 times back in the day. Some of the characters are great. I loved the "creepy bartender" guy. That actor is fantastic.

And damn that clock puzzle! Oh, that sucked.

I also recall taking letters/call about the actor for GK2 and how his accent was different and "Why didn't he try to sound more like Tim Curry?" I believe the actor IS from the region and wasn't affecting an accent as much as talking normally!

[MetalJesusRocks]

@TheBigJB - Josh, I seriously considered bringing you in on this video, because you are such a big GK fan...but I just didn't have the time. Is there another Sierra game you'd like to help me review, or a classic series you'd like to help create a Restrospective? It would be an honor to have you on my channel again!

[bpryor01]

You really saved your vulture bin stuff! That's awesome Jason!

[MetalJesusRocks]

@bpryor01 - Bernadette, I did...with the help of other Sierra folks too. But I wish I would have kept more, now that it's hard to find the original boxes for a lot of those classic games. Unfortunately I threw a bunch of them out a few years ago.

[AnonDracula]

Excellent game and review. Probably one of the few examples of a well designed FMV game?

[bunciaknconquer]

Wow, Peter J Lucas in Computer Games, I didn't know that the polish dude who lives in USA, starred in Gabriel Knight 2. Impressive.

[GabrielKnightz]

Have you played XFiles?

[JintuTCG]

nice review. and its on sale untill the holidays for 3 bucks :D

[fernandoiscrazy]

8:09 one of my favorite musical scores in the entire game. I love the piano melodies they used for the soundtrack, especially all the piano themes where you play as Grace.

They need to do a Gabriel Knight HD collection and Re-Release this game with all the FMV blurry pixelated cutscenes remastered in Hi-Def 1080p Blu-Ray quality and 5.1 surround sound. This is the best Werewolf related form of entertainment on Planet Earth right now PERIOD!

[Rocko0030]

Great game, I played just cuz this review. But I can't se the "horror" in the game, I'll say it's more a "mystery" game.

[mercurynrw]

You do excellent reviews. Always look forward to them, regardless of what you are covering.

[RPGMachine86]

great review. Really interesting to me since I missed out on most PC titles back then. Great job dude!