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Planescape: Torment

Retrospective by Kieron Gillen (Rock, Paper, Shotgun)

More lengthy, academic analysis of the game:
Carr, Dianne (2003) Genre and Affect in Silent Hill and Planescape Torment
Game Studies 3(1) ISSN:1604-7982





The PC game has been re-released on the occasion of its 10th anniversary. However, you'll probably need to install the fixpack to run it successfully on XP or Vista.


Planescape: Torment has been released on GOG.com
It is their second most-requested game title.

GemRB Game Engine
open source re-implementation of BioWare's Infinity engine, 1998-2002
http://linux.prinas.si/gemrb/doku.php

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