Many moons ago when most of you were but a twinkle in your adventure gamer parents eyes, there was a company from France named Cryo that had a reputation for developing strikingly beautiful adventure games - such as Dragon Lore and Lost Eden - that often lacked substance, at the expense of eye candy.

Well, to steal a line from the little girl in Poltergeist, they’re baaack.

Cryo was dissolved in bankruptcy a few years ago, but much of their talent has been rehired and reformed into a new European development team under the auspices of Dreamcatcher so I guess I in a way it would be fair to call the new team Cryo-Lite.

Atlantis Evolution is the first in what is too be a new series of games based on the fabled city made famous by Donovan and some guy named Plato. Now there had been a previous series games based on the Atlantean mythology (Atlantis, Beyond Atlantis, etc.) and, no surprise, we have reviews of them on this very site, but it would be unfair to compare a game that is supposed to be a departure from the series to what has gone before.