Hugo III: Jungle of Doom!
Hugo III: Jungle of Doom! is an adventure puzzle game developed and published by David Gray and released for MS-DOS on 1992-02-20 and later ported to Windows. It is the third game in the Hugo series, released after Hugo II: Whodunit?.
I played this game right shortly after playing Hugo II: Whodunit?, most likely from the same shareware package as the second game. I certainly appreciated the improved artwork, but found the game to be just as dated at the previous titles in the trilogy. I got a little over half-way through the game in my first attempts, but finally hunkered down to play it in earnest and beat it on 2018-06-25.
Status
I do not own the game, but I have beaten it with a full score.
Review
- Overall: 2/10
- Best Version: DOS
Review
Good
- The artwork is certainly better in this game, but still quite dated for the time (Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis was released the same year).
- The game engine saw more improvements like a turbo feature.
Bad
- The game's music and sound effects are very dated and not that great even for the 80s.
- A lot of the scenery that should be animated is not.
- The game doesn't seem to know it's set in South America; there are African elephants, hyenas, and Zulu shields.
- The game does have a few guess-the-verb style problems especially on the bridge and the crystal ball.
- The book is stupidly hidden.
Ugly
- The game is far too short for an adventure game that costs money. It's even shorter than the first Hugo game!
Media
Videos
- youtube.com/watch?v=_8TMGdRnwIA - Longplay.
Download
This is all of the shareware version of the Hugo games I could find including Hugo III: Jungle of Doom! for DOS and Windows. You can still buy the game from the author.
Links
- mobygames.com/game/dos/hugo-iii-jungle-of-doom - MobyGames.
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_III,_Jungle_of_Doom! - Wikipedia.
- dgray.com/hwpage.htm - Official page.