Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers
Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers is a 1993 point-and-click adventure game, created by Jane Jensen and Roberta Williams, developed and published by Sierra On-Line, and released for MS-DOS, Macintosh, and Windows on December 17, 1993. The game's story, featuring the voices of Tim Curry, Leah Remini, and Mark Hamill in the CD-ROM version, focuses on Gabriel Knight, a struggling novelist, whose decision to use a spate of recent murders around New Orleans as material for a new novel, leads him into a world of voodoo magic and the truth about his family's past as supernatural fighters.
| Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers | |
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| Developer(s) | Sierra On-Line |
| Publisher(s) | Sierra On-Line |
| Director(s) | Jane Jensen Bill Crow |
| Producer(s) | Robert Holmes John E. Grayson |
| Designer(s) | Jane Jensen |
| Programmer(s) | Tom DeSalvo |
| Artist(s) | Terrence C. Falls Darlou Gams Gloria Garland |
| Writer(s) | Jane Jensen Bridget McKenna |
| Composer(s) | Robert Holmes |
| Series | Gabriel Knight |
| Engine | SCI2 |
| Platform(s) | MS-DOS, Macintosh, Windows |
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| Genre(s) | Point-and-click adventure |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
Although the game was not a commercial success, it received favourable reviews from critics for its story and voice cast, along with its graphical presentation. The game later spawned a series, with a sequel, The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight Mystery, released in 1995; the game also received a novel adaptation by Jensen, published in 1997.
A remake of the game to mark its 20th anniversary, Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers 20th Anniversary Edition, was released in 2014 for Windows, Mac, iPad, and Android, featuring a remastering of the graphics and music, along with a new voice cast and minor changes to the arrangement of story events