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Don Cato - The Return of the Lynx

Manufacturer: Ca ' Gatti Berlin
Appeared: 2001
Hardware: 500 MhZ CPU, 64 MB Ram , 4 MB video card, sound card
rating: 10/10
PSP : not applicable because Educational

test environment:
AMD Turion X64, 512 MB Ram , ATI Radeon 1100 Mobile ( Smooth )

On 17 March 1818, so a little more than 192 years in the resin of the last Lynx shot, Human sad and tragic event from this folly bears witness to the lynx stone. In this case this was not even as a demonstration against the extermination of lynx placed there. But as a reminder of the killer of the animal. A similar memorial is also available for the last brown bear and the last wolf in the area but only in passing.

The story of Don Cato tells the story of the Lynx Cato the way up from his home in the Alps opens a new area to see the forest. The player accompanied him here during his visit to Germany. In essence, "Don Cato - The Return of the lynx "is not a game but rather an interactive story. The game pieces themselves are simply the scanning of the screen to clickable animals or objects. Where the game has to tell everyone a story. Either the animals tell their own history, or designed by one of the animals tells the Cato imagine her living room. Of which there are total of 4. The winter landscape of the Alps, a Spring landscape along the river, the summer by the sea and, finally, the fall in the resin. In each screen there is a lot of information about animals and plants.

Where is the game of course Aimed more at a younger target group, but basically anyone can learn what. The individual seasons and landscapes are linked by the huts you can enter. There are then in addition a quiz and a memory solve. Where in the autumn landscape at the end even bird calls can be mapped in the whole game. Who has not exactly Attention will have to puzzle out here pretty, at least I did not spontaneous sounds like a kingfisher.

The whole game was a lot of attention to detail and put in music Drawn, it can be assigned to each animal immediately (if the species is generally known) and the speaker to come here all the effort. Likewise, the backgrounds are very well depicted set, only some animations seem a bit choppy, but this very well have been used Macromedia software may be encountered by acute in this project to its limits. The only here where you can attach some criticism that the animals are sometimes very humanized. However, this is a stylistic device to facilitate the identification with the animals. Therefore, it can hardly be considered criticism.

Da Don Carto "not really a game is to control very simple, if there is something interesting on the screen when the mouse is over it turns driving into an automatic hand. By clicking this, there is either a declaration or a little story to hear. This can also skip some scenes and even entire seasons can be skipped. For this, however, lacks a memory function. However, it is a few clicks back to the point where you finish the game. Shall pass through this, too, not as a criticism.

The highlight is of course the dictionary, here, every animal and plant species occurring in the game once again described in detail. Unfortunately, the game a blunder, be refused for the last quiz that claims the fox is the main transmitter of rabies. This is simply tall tales to justify the extermination of the fox to. Particularly much some people have apparently learned not from the extinction of the lynx before. Perhaps even carry such titles will help, not that more animals of bloodthirsty people overboard geballert be. But the mistake I will not hold against the game, after all, this is unfortunately an extremely common hoax.

Conclusion:

Don Cato "is a promotional game of the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety. You can see the game but to the work here with very great attention to detail was. So the game is instructive without wag wagging finger. There are also a nice graphics and a very good setting. The encyclopedia is researched well and with great attention to detail. This is Don Cato "also completely free to order. There are also still a very nicely designed brochure and an A1 poster

References:

http://www.bmu.de/bestellformular/content/4159.php

among children and young people, absolutely free of charge, even the shipping is paid by the BMU

wait that will not find the game (in addition to many other commercial games) can be downloaded here:

http://werbespiel.blogspot.com/2010/09/don-cato the-RETURN-of-luchses.html