Very few items in the environments can actually be used or picked up, so the few that can be used are necessary to progress the game. Also, most of the puzzles are easily solved by running your mouse across each screen to find out what can be interacted with. When his blood sample comes back with a blood alcohol level too high, you then substitute your own blood and, voila, it is accepted and the cosmonaut is shot into space. First you obtain a blood sample from the cosmonaut. In order to progress in the game, you must launch the rocket. No one knows how the rocket booster functions though, and Hans left Komkolzgrad before launch. The cosmonaut, a character you encounter in Komkolzgrad, a post-industrial waste, wants to fly a rocket booster created by Hans during his stay in the city. The puzzles are not challenging, though they can sometimes be obtuse as you would expect in an adventure game. The possibility of a sequel seems obvious. How much more is yet to be seen, as the poorly done ending leaves the game hanging.

It becomes clear that she is eventually going to shed the trappings of her life in New York with her self-absorbed boyfriend, disloyal friend and gruff boss and become something more. Through the game, she experiences an evolution of character that might be interesting if it wasn't so contrived. She comes across as weak and her relationships seem silly. Through a variety of phone conversations with her best friend, boyfriend and mother, you learn about her personal life, an aspect of the game that can honestly be done without. Kate Walker, unlike Oscar, is not very interesting. Oscar is a breath of fresh air in a cast of dry or annoying characters, such as her best friend, who you never meet but hear over the phone and who has an important role to play in the lives of Kate, and the Director at Komkolzgrad, a man who is obsessed with a singer and has converted the entire abandoned city into a musical playground in the hopes of luring her back to the city. He also forces you to obtain tickets and proper visas before moving forward on the journey, sticking to the letter of the law. Oscar often insists he cannot leave the train to aid you for one reason or another, for example, the air is too dry or an engineer never leaves his train. The most amusing and interesting thing about Syberia is the train engineer. Much of the game involves trying to wind the train at each stop along the way in your search for Hans and interacting with other automatons. His most impressive creation is the wind-up train and the automaton train engineer named Oscar.

Hans Voralberg, though simple, is apparently a genius at creating automatons and has been sending his designs to his sister for years, as well as leaving behind various forms of automatons in the cities you will encounter. Along the way in the search for Hans, you will encounter a variety of automatons. Through the years, Anna has kept in contact with Hans, and before her death, she revealed that Hans was indeed alive and the heir to the automaton factory. His father staged a funeral for him, so everyone but his sister thinks he is dead. He left Valadilene to discover more about Mammoths, his obsession, which greatly angered his father. Hans had an accident when he was a young that left him like a child. So, as Kate Walker, you must track down this heir, Hans Voralberg, in order to complete the deal. To further complicate things, a previously assumed dead heir is now revealed to be alive and possibly living in Siberia. The day Kate Walker arrives in Valadilene, in the French Alps, she finds that Anna Voralberg, the owner of the automaton company, is being buried. Universal Toy Company has hired her firm to handle the legal issues associated with the takeover. You are cast as Kate Walker, an American lawyer who travels to Europe to finalize the contract signing for the purchase of a luxury toy and automaton company.

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