Zork Nemesis: The Forbidden Lands 1996

Is it still worth playing?

In the Forbidden Lands of the Great Underground Empire four notables and two of their children have vanished at the hands of something called the Nemesis, and you go in after them. It is a 1996 adventure for Windows 95, MS-DOS and the Macintosh, the Zork that stopped joking. It is first person and point and click across five worlds, with Z-Vision, a panorama that turns the full circle at each spot, and puzzles solved by finding clues and putting objects or actions together, with a score kept. The budget passed three million dollars, about three and a half with the live action, and time cut the puzzles down to control panels and most of a third act. The panorama still lets you turn round in a Zork, and a dark one.