A.D. 2044

Moby ID: 21460
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This is a point-and-click adventure set in a near future post-apocalyptic world where women now rule. After a radical women's group hijacks some nuclear missiles asking for a share of world power with men but are met with resistance, missiles are launched from both sides and a nuclear winter ensues. A thousand women at a conference survive and establish an all female society underground. Later in the year 2044, they discover a lone male preserved in a hibernation capsule during a mining operation.

The player, as the male, escapes imprisonment and explores the society looking for items that will help him while avoiding female androids. Your character will talk to himself in a digitized voice and there is also another male voice that narrates the story and provides hints. Each screen must be searched for hotspots, which can also be examined and are indicated by a magnifying glass cursor. Similarly, you can pick up items if a hand cursor appears. When you examine items, they will rotate in a special full-screen viewing mode. Some items can be combined in this mode.

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Average score: 60% (based on 4 ratings)

Players

Average score: 2.3 out of 5 (based on 12 ratings with 1 reviews)

Annoying and lackluster

The Good
Nothing in particular, other maybe than the music

The Bad
Frustrating puzzles requiring pixel hunting
No real story
Awful attempts at humor

The Bottom Line
The game may be somewhat famous within the history of Polish gamedev, but on its own merits, it's quite terrible.

A lot of inventory items are invisible until you click on the exactly right, unlabelled place on the screen to get the exactly right camera angle - I definitely won't blame anyone for taking forever to get out of the first room because of this. There are also other puzzles that rely on combing the screen pixel by pixel for obscure hotspots. Using inventory items on each other is rather annoying due to the way the inventory is set up, and (if I'm not mistaken) you need to use them in a specific order - if you're meant to use X on Y, then using Y on X will yield no effect, which makes experimentation frustrating. And of course don't expect a compelling story... there's barely any narrative to speak of. The comedy is lackluster and the jokes reek of desperation, save for everything that has been cribbed from the original 1984 movie (which I greatly recommend, by the way). About the only nice thing I can say is that the music is pretty nice, but unfortunately the jaunty tune gets old quick (there are other songs in the game folder as well, but I gave up before hearing them played in-game).

If you're curious about cult Polish games of the 90's, you can try checking this out... but if you just want to play a point-n-click adventure game, choose just about anything else.

Windows · by Havoc Crow (30242) · 2017

Trivia

Initial release box content

Initial release of the game included big sized calendar poster with game graphics and 32 page short story titled A.D. 2044, written by Filip Syrylak.

Inspiration

This game is a remake of the original A.D. 2044: Seksmisja for the Atari 8-bit platform, which came out in 1991. In terms of the storyline and setting both games are loosely connected with the Polish comedy Seksmisja (Sexmission in English). The movie featured two guys being hibernated for too long - and waking up in the underground city, which turns out being inhabited only by women. The movie has a faint, but still very much noticeable anti-socialist-system edge. It became one the most popular and widespread Polish movies - especially in the former Warsaw Pact countries.

Awards

A.D. 2044 won the Golden Disk'96 award for the best Polish game of 1996, granted by Świat Gier Komputerowych magazine and Hitek'96, granted by the readers.

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Game added by Scaryfun.

Additional contributors: Havoc Crow, Martin T., Patrick Bregger, Karsa Orlong.

Game added March 3, 2006. Last modified November 2, 2024.