Pompei: The Legend of Vesuvius
Pompei: The Legend of Vesuvius (aka TimeScape: Journey to Pompeii) is a 2000 historical adventure game. It followed by a sequel, Jerusalem: The Three Roads to the Holy Land. When an explorer and world famous…
Pompei: The Legend of Vesuvius is an adventure developed by Arxel Tribe, released 1 January 2000 on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Pompei: The Legend of Vesuvius is
Pompei: The Legend of Vesuvius is an adventure game developed by Arxel Tribe and released in 2000. It was published by Cryo Interactive. It is available on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Adrian Blake, trapped in a mountain cave, surrounded by a raging war, fears his exciting and adventurous life is almost at an end. The goddess Ishtar appears before him and offers to save him in exchange for his love. Rejecting her advances and safely returning home, Adrian discovers that his fiancée is missing. Realizing that Ishtar has cursed him, Adrian searches ancient scrolls to invoke the goddess to help him find Sophia. Instead, Ishtar challenges him to go back in history to Pompeii in the year 79 A.D. and win the love and trust of Sophia, as a complete stranger. Adrian must race against time - he is aware that Mount Vesuvius is destined to erupt in just 4 days. Overcoming numerous…
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are historical. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
What it launched against
Pompei: The Legend of Vesuvius launched on 1 January 2000, within three weeks of Shenmue, Planescape: Torment, The Typing of the Dead and Little Fighter 2.
Released around the same time: Shenmue, Planescape: Torment, The Typing of the Dead, Little Fighter 2.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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