Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers (PC, 1995)

Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers (also known as Gabriel Knight 1 or GK1) is a 1993 point-and-click adventure game developed and published by Sierra On-Line, Inc. (now Sierra Entertainment, a subsidiary of Vivendi Games). It is the first game of the Gabriel Knight series and was first released in North America on December 17, 1993, but has been subsequently re-released both individually and as Gabriel Knight Mysteries: Limited Edition, a compilation with The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight Mystery. The game follows the eponymous Gabriel Knight, a used bookstore owner and fledgling writer, as he investigates a series of local murders he plans to use as the basis for his new novel.

Sins of the Fathers was released cross-format as both a single CD-ROM disc and as a set of eleven 3.5" floppy disks. The CD-ROM version included voice-acting by Tim Curry, Mark Hamill, Michael Dorn, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., and Leah Remini among others. The CD-ROM version also included video sequences that the floppy version instead included as a sequence of still images.

The game Gabriel Knight is one of the best games created. A mixture of skill and ingenuity lead the player to unexpected repercussions, the graphics are of course many years ago, so we can not expect much from the video quality, but the storyline makes you forget the graphics. The Gabriel Knight author Jane Jensen is a brilliant writer, because the game comes from his books of Gk, unfortunate that after the trilogy, the game has never been pursued because of misunderstandings between the author and publishing companies. It would be interesting to know how it ends the story of Gabriel and Grace ...

The entire Gabriel Knight series is great! Unfortunatly this particular copy I bought was to old to run on my machine but I am going to find a newer copy. I have played and really enjoyed the rest. The Beast Within is really good if your happen to be a Twilight series fan.