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<div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://i641.photobucket.com/albums/uu140/mrjag/15053641_l.jpg" /> <img src="http://i641.photobucket.com/albums/uu140/mrjag/gk1_000.jpg" /><!--center--></div> <strong>Gabriel Knight</strong> is a series of adventure games produced by Sierra On-Line in the 1990s. Three games were released in the series: Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers, The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight Mystery and Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned. One compilation was released: Gabriel Knight Mysteries: Limited Edition. It included the first two games in the trilogy. <div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://i641.photobucket.com/albums/uu140/mrjag/GabrielKnight.gif" /><!--center--></div> The Gabriel Knight characters and games were created by writer Jane Jensen, who also worked on King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow with veteran game designer Roberta Williams. All three games in the series focus on the adventures of Gabriel Knight, a New Orleans author and bookstore owner who finds that his destiny is to become a Schattenjäger, or "Shadow Hunter". Gabriel's assistant, sidekick, and sometime romantic interest Grace Nakimura is a major supporting character in Sins of the Father. In The Beast Within and Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned, she shares the role of protagonist with Gabriel. The player alternates between Gabriel and Grace for different portions of each game. With a balanced mix of historical facts and fictional elements, as well as an emphasis on character development (e.g. the relationship between Gabriel and Grace is an important subplot throughout the series), the Gabriel Knight games have been praised as outstanding achievements in storytelling. The music in the series, composed by Robert Holmes (Jensen's husband), contributes significantly to the atmosphere. <img src="http://i641.photobucket.com/albums/uu140/mrjag/gk1.gif" /> The first episode of the series was released in 1993. Its story unfolds over a sequence of "days", each of which has a required set of actions to be performed before proceeding to the next. In this way, the game proceeds mostly linearly, since the puzzles on a given "day" must be completed in order to reach the next day. However, within each day play may be nonlinear. A similar format was used throughout the series, with "days" replaced by "chapters" and "time blocks" in the later games. Each game also awards a number of "points" both for completing game required actions and for completing various optional puzzles along the way. <div style="text-align: center;"><object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://youtube.com/v/aT6_-C2Y4_Y&rel=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/aT6_-C2Y4_Y&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object><!--center--></div> Graphic Novels: Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers and Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned both included, along with the game media and documentation, graphic novels that contained back-story to the starting points in either game, much in the tradition of Infocom's "feelies". The Sins of the Fathers graphic novel follows the story of Günter Ritter, an ancestor of Gabriel Knight, who has left his ancestral home for the American continent in the 1600s. The Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned graphic novel details the events immediately preceding the player's starting point in the game. Novels: The stories of Sins of the Fathers (ISBN 0-451-45607-6) and The Beast Within (ISBN 0-451-45621-1) were adapted into novels by Jane Jensen. The first is a straightforward adaptation of the events of the game, an approach which Jane Jensen decided, in retrospect, was not the most successful way of introducing Gabriel Knight to a literary audience. For the second novel she "threw the whole idea of the game away and started again from scratch." 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