Major gaming sites, IGN and Gamespot, have just gotten some (minor spoilerish) hands-on experience with Ragnar Tornquist's sequel to The Longest Journey and couldn't wait to tell us all about it.

Dreamfall, developed at Funcom, is certainly shaping up to be a great experience, judging from these write-ups of the demo they were presented. One of the main sources of discussion in these articles is that the game will contain some combat and sneaking portions. While this is true, most of these scenes will be optional, in that players will be always be presented with an alternative that puts brains over brawns. Tornquist insists that the story is such that it really requires direct control and involving the player in some action. He assures, however, that these will not merely be some tacked-on action sequences with no real ties to the story and atmosphere.