Santa Fe Mysteries: Sacred Ground

Santa Fe Mysteries: Sacred Ground is a video game, the second in the Santa Fe Mysteries series after The Elk Moon Murder.

Santa Fe Mysteries: Sacred Ground
Developer(s)Activision
Publisher(s)Activision
SeriesSanta Fe Mysteries
Platform(s)MS-DOS, Macintosh, Windows
Release1997
Genre(s)Adventure
Mode(s)Single-player

Plot

In Sacred Ground, the wife of a local businessman is kidnapped.

Critical reception
Reception
Review scores
PublicationScore
PC GamesC[1]
Computer Games Strategy Plus[2]
CNET Gamecenter[3]

The game received reviews ranging from negative to positive. JustAdventure thought the game was a "slight improvement" over The Elk Moon Murders, while noting "[it] is not entirely easy to classify - somewhere between an interactive movie and an adventure game".[4] In a 2001 retrospective, Programmer In Black wrote "For an older game, the game play here holds up well."[5] Just Adventure said "There is one thing that [the game] absolutely, positively isn't: unique".[6] Allgame gave Sacred Ground 2.5 stars out of 5.[7] Tekno Magazine noted the annoyance of switching between the game's two CDs when moving back and forth between different locations.[8] PC Player felt the title was a missed opportunity to build on the world created in the predecessor.[9][10] MacGamer thought the title was serviceable in the genre of interactive murder mysteries though admitted it was not revolutionary in any way.[11] The Adrenaline Vault praised the immersive characters and the atmospheric music.[12]

Reviews
gollark: It's not between those though.
gollark: It's fuzzily defined, somewhat niche as a concern anyway, and rarely actually encoded into law.
gollark: Also the rest of the government I think. Similar to the US's many mass surveillance laws.
gollark: The "investigatory powers bill" is also rather bad but many countries have the same sort of thing nowadays, so the awfulness isn't very unique.
gollark: If you like that you'll love UK knife law!

References
  1. Lam, Christine. "Sacred Ground". PC Games. Archived from the original on May 25, 1997.
  2. Blackburn, Janet (February 15, 1997). "Sacred Ground". Computer Games Strategy Plus. Archived from the original on October 7, 1997.
  3. Beman, Ann. "Review; Sacred Ground". CNET Gamecenter. Archived from the original on February 5, 1997.
  4. "Sacred Ground - Just Adventure + Review". justadventure.com. Archived from the original on 1 December 2009.
  5. http://www.pibweb.com/review/sacred.html
  6. Michal Necasek. "Sacred Ground". justadventure.com.
  7. "Santa Fe Mysteries: Sacred Ground - Overview - allgame". 2014-11-14. Archived from the original on 2014-11-14. Retrieved 2017-09-16.CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (link)
  8. Tekno Magazine 03 1997.
  9. PC Player (February 1997). PC Player German Magazine 1997-02 (in German).
  10. "Kultboy.com - DIE Kult-Seite über die alten Spiele-Magazine und Retro-Games!". www.kultboy.com. Retrieved 2018-05-11.
  11. "MacGamer - Get In The Game". 2002-10-18. Archived from the original on 2002-10-18. Retrieved 2018-05-11.
  12. https://web.archive.org/web/20031127092313/http://www.avault.com:80/reviews/review_temp.asp?game=sground&page=2
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