Boy, not much said about this game lately.
I've been playing it off and on for a while and there was a point where I got stuff and stopped playing it for several months. Just not jumped back into it and (regrettably) with a walkthrough managed to soldier on.
I know the review complains about the music but I think it's pretty good myself. Granted, it's no Scummbar theme or Betrayal at Krondor or whatever, but I think it fits the game well.
It's an interesting game to me in respect towards it's interface what with the cross between text parser and graphics that you can somewhat interact with. It feels like a bridge between the older text based adventures and the newer (at the time) point and click adventure games. Which reminds me of that string of movies between 1928-30. Sound movies had just come out and now they had these weird hybrid movies where certain scenes would have sound and at other times they would revert back to the text cards for dialogue. Anyway, Gateway reminds me of that, I don't know if any other games (beyond it's sequel I guess) did anything like that, but it's neat I think.
The game's story is a little thin, that much is for sure. And there is pretty minimal interactivity with other characters that can kind of take out of the game some. But its concept and premise is so delicious that it gets away with it with relatively little problem. The way they have you go about using your ship and exploring (rather blindly haha) for other planets is extremely immersive and fun.
Haven't finished it, but will sometime fairly soon I hope. Can't wait to play the sequel and I'll probably even read the novel. Really fun game.
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