PROTOVISION - Ultimate Newcomer

An island full of prisoners... and Neil has just arrived. He is a NEWCOMER. Why is he here? Confusion, distorted memories... jealousy?! He begins to remember something: his wife and the bastard she cheated on him with... he killed them both. After that nothing else mattered to him, he was arrested and... all of a sudden his memories end, there is nothing more but emptiness...

And now he is lying here...

...on the Island...

This is how Newcomer, the ultimate roleplaying adventure for Commodore 64 begins.

Features:

180+ characters you can interact with, each with his/her own portrait graphic

10+ people who may join you, to make a team of up to 6 members

...or try it on your own, in the extra challenging solo gamemode...

50+ different areas to explore, created with 30 different graphic sets

100+ cutscenes/situational graphics in-game that make you feel like you are there

180'000+ words of ingame text, mostly interactive conversations

Thousands of puzzles and situations to encounter and solve

No random encounters

Complex, non-linear gameplay with multiple levels of endings

Months or weeks of immersive gaming until you "complete" the game...

...but there are still a thousand situations, resolutions and encounters you have not seen yet, and 2 more gaming modes to complete

Animated intro and outro sequences

Game controls changed to make it comfortable for emulator users on PC/Mac keyboards

VICE fully supported, extensively tested, no virtual floppy disks, works like a native PC/Mac game

Much faster disk I/O and less disk swapping in the 1541 version, compared to classic or Enhanced Newcomer

1541 version: 11* floppy disk sides

1581 version: 3* DD floppy disks

CMD FD2000 version: 2* HD floppy disks

CMD FD4000 version: a single ED floppy disk – zero disk swapping

Less floppy disk swapping needed – optimized data layout, area sorting and duplication for all multiple floppy disk versions

IDE64 version: 2 MB installed, "instant I/O", playing from HDD / CD / DVD / CF / remote filesystem (ethernet, USB, or User Port PCLink, via ideserv) supported, different data and save devices supported

PAL and NTSC Commodore 64/64C/128/128D/128DCr systems auto-detected and supported

6581 and 8580 SID chips auto-detected and supported

C128 2MHz CPU mode auto-detected and supported – much faster unpacking for all storage devices

SuperCPU 20MHz CPU mode auto-detected and supported – instant unpacking for all storage devices

20 years in the making, there has never been anything comparable for the C64.

PROTOVISION presents ULTIMATE NEWCOMER,
a game by
Cinematic Intuitive Dynamix

In the year of 2010, wonders will happen again.

Screenshots from the Newcomer intro animation:

A brutal double murder	Neil is arrested
A strange device gets activated	Someone is already there...
... and helps the newcomer,	but Neil is very confused.

Quick example list of what you can and should do in Ultimate Newcomer:

Persuade, bribe or force people into joining, respecting, obeying, or submitting to you

Find someone to teach you how to lockpick or detonate doors, or to do it for you

Choose the right clothing, disguise, or armour, as the situation demands

Collect information – all the info you can get, and then more

Explore the wilderness and various caves

Get equipment for use or sale

However, solving the game will be much easier if you make friends with everyone who is not a complete b*tard!

More screenshots on what awaits you in Ultimate Newcomer:

Humans and animals are not living in harmony	Many inmates toil at the agro section
Underground caverns hold many surprises	Yet there are decent places as well
Some doors are not this open to you, though...	..and other people are far less welcoming
Some want to isolate themselves...	One of the not-so-friendly inmates
The patrol tries to keep things in order,	and Neil has some survival skills of his own.

Regarding game mechanisms, Ultimate Newcomer is similar to classic "CRPGs", but puzzle solving and interaction with characters gets the emphasis here. Controls and gameplay is like a mixture of adventure games and computer roleplaying games.

More information will be made available at the Official Newcomer Site.

DISTRIBUTION & ORDERING INFO:
Enhanced Newcomer is no longer available due to the impending release of Ultimate Newcomer.
Ultimate Newcomer is AppreciationWare – distribution details and ordering options TBA in 2010.

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