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Piri, the Explorer Ship is a unique and little known interactive adventure game
created by a Turkish gaming company. The game is set aboard Piri, a 16th century
carrack ready to embark on a quest to unravel the hidden secrets of Piri Reis' map
that he made in 1531 by copying most of it’s parts from the Columbus' maps. Piri Reis
was a great Turkish cartographer and a corsair in the Ottoman's empire and he lived
most of his life exploring different places and lands. Back in the year 1926, the
western part of Piri Reis' map of 1513 was accidentally discovered in Topkapi Palace
when it was undergoing major renovation for getting converted into a museum. Since no
work of Columbus was in existence then, this map was taken as the only source to
represent Piri Reis' and Columbus' shared cartographic skills. As you start the game
in the Captain's role aboard the ship, the old Captain's voice welcomes and invites
you to go ahead and unravel the hidden secrets of the map. In doing so, you need to
sail from Istanbul to Dakar, Seville, Cordoba and Rio de Janeiro docking your ship in
different places, exploring different lands and cultures and gathering information
using the ship's highly sophisticated mechanisms, which in return will help you in
finding the secrets hidden in the map. Visually, the game presents superb quality
pre-rendered 3D graphics with a mouse driven interface commonly found in most Myst
type of games. Sound and music are equally nice and very entertaining. The game box
contains a copy of the Piri Reis' map of 1513 to consult and find clues and hints
for most of the puzzles and problems, which in return are quite hard for most novice
adventure gamers. |