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In its essence, Ankh is an old-school, point-and-click, comic 3D adventure in the vein of such LucasArts classics as Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle and Grim Fandango. Ankh is actually a remake of a game of the same name, which was released almost eight years ago. Of course it’s highly unlikely you’ll have come across the original – the game was released exclusively for the Acorn RiscPC platform which never really took off. Only about 500,000 RiscPC machines were ever sold, a majority of them in Great Britain where they were bought by British schools, while the rest were purchased by private users scattered in Germany, France, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand (practically none were sold in the United States). Thankfully, the developers of Ankh, some of whom ... worked on the original, are assured of a much larger audience this time around, with the release of the game for the PC platform. And it’s not the same old game either – everything from the storyline to the graphics has undergone an extreme makeover.
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Possibly derived from the shape of a sandal strap, the Ankh was the symbol of both physical and eternal life in ancient Egypt. Details of its origins with the Early Dynastic Period with the cults of Isis and Osiris have been lost, but its importance as a ritual symbol for life persisted throughout the Egyptian era. Jewelry and ornaments buried with the kings often bore this sacred hieroglyph. The Ankh adorned many ceremonial sites and in art it was frequently depicted in the hands of the gods.
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Ankh-Morpork has evolved in the series. At the beginning of the series in The Colour of Magic, it was a corrupt, crumbling medieval city. It still has corruption (mostly organised in guilds) but is far from crumbling by Going Postal and has become a high-tech (for the Disc) city-state bordering on almost steam punk levels of technology. The city is indeed the 2nd most developed nation of the disc after the Agatean Empire. Ankh-Morpork has seen the appearance of
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Over time, the Ankh came to symbolize life and immortality, the universe, an the powerful life-sustaining elements of air and water. Its key-like form ... encouraged the belief that it could unlock the doors of death, and it is looked at in this way by modern Rosicrucians and other hermetic orders. The Christians coptes employed it as a symbol of life after death.
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Ankh-Morpork was twinned with the town of Wincanton in Somerset, in the south-west United Kingdom on the spherical planet Earth (known in the Discworld books as Roundworld) on the 7 December 2002 [1]. The town is home to a Discworld shop called The Cunning Artificer which is named after a street in Ankh-Morpork. However due to legal reasons, the twinning is not officially displayed on the road sign. Fans ... have added stick-on notices to some of the signs [2]. This has now been changed and a new town sign prominently declaring the twinning with Ankh-Morpork and other Roundworld places has been erected. This sign was designed by the Cunning Artificer himself, Bernard Pearson.
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In a word... Ankh is brilliant. The puzzles are inventive, the storyline is genuinely funny and the completion of some of the more difficult puzzles is pleasurable rather than a relief. Commendable also is the way that Ankh does not take itself seriously, in a gaming environment that never takes anything with a pinch of salt. Ankh jokes about the inclusion of colour and shape puzzles and laughs at so many other gaming cliches. If reading this has reawakened fond memories of playing Sam and Max or Hugo's House of Horrors then you can do no wrong with Ankh - when it is released in February of next year make sure to be first in those queues. If however you are reading this after a blast of Counter-Strike and drifting off to sleep at the thought of a game that involves nothing but a gentle clicking action, then truly you would be missing out.
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