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To be quite honest, I had a very mixed reaction when I booted up Avernum 4 for the first time. While I was excited to get a chance to play the next Spiderweb game, I had been hoping that the game would use the real-time engine of the Geneforge series. Contrary to my desires, the game is much more of a mixture between the classic Avernum games, and while the game engine is essentially the Geneforge engine, it also has the standard Avernum turn-based gameplay grafted onto it.

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Avernum 4's system is an amalgamation of the Avernum totally turn-based system, and Geneforge's point-and-click navigation. Although every character movement is treated by the engine as a "turn" (and thus other characters move simultaneously with you, and the game is essentially paused if you are not moving), you navigate by clicking on the spot you want your party to move to. This simple interface change gives the game a completely different feel than the past Avernum games, and makes the turn-based system much more accessible and fun.

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Originally written by Eimp:

Vahnatai creationism explicitly excludes the dragons. Gazers may be in a category of their own as well. This is not a spoiler.

—Alorael, who still has to put the touches on his alternative theory of intelligent design by Richard White. It's internally consistent except when it isn't.

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Originally written by Synergy67:

Avernum 4 does run in Mac OS 9 as well as OS X. I've been testing it in 9.2.2 with fine results.

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Point and click movement is very useful, as there is more ground to traverse with no more outdoors. You'll use it a lot. You can still move with the keypad as usual.

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not having to resurrect "dead" characters with balms or healers any longer is but one example.

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