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Discworld II: Missing, presumed....!?

Erm....I'm getting rather confused as to what number out of 225 this is exactly, especially since I bought those two new games, but according to the old calculation this should have been number 39 I think. Or possibly not.

Anyhoo, Discworld II: Missing, Presumed...!? or Discworld II: Mortality Bytes, as it is also called, is the sequel to Discworld 1, which was bereft of any amusing subtitle. Once again, you play incompetent Wizard Rincewind, but this time it is your task to find Death. Death has disappeared and all over the City of Ankh-Morpork, people are dying, whilst not actually really doing so.
Senior Wizard Windle Poons has kicked the bucket and found that the bucket was still standing when he crawled out of his coffin, so it is now up to Rincewind to find Death and get him back at his job, before things start turning really nasty.

Audio-visually the game is a HUGE improvement over the original, because it actually looks and sounds good this time. Eric Idle is back to voice Rincewind, as is a large part of the original cast, only Tony Robinson (Baldrick from Blackadder) has been replaced by Nigel Planer (Neil from The Young Ones) who I'm sorry to say does not do as good a job.

Still, the game seems to make a bit more sense this time round, regularly poking fun at its prequel's non-sensicalness, and hints are a bit more abundant this time round (in the sense that they are actually there).
Oh and the opening Song is great. Eric Idle singing a jazzy song about Death is completely hilarious. I'm liking this one already.

posted by Ingen! @ 3:51 PM