Game News: 56 Sage Street

56 Sage Street helps you learn about money, finance and banking in an enjoyable way. To succeed in the game you've got to make the right decisions about how you earn money and how you spend it.

The more you learn and the better your decisions, the great your chances of making it in the city.

Play 56 Sage Street now @ www.56sagestreet.co.uk

The Story
Mr C is a self made millionaire from the Roxburgh Estate. He’s soon to die and looking for a heir to his business. He saw the fight you put up and thinks you might have the same hunger he once had… It’s up to you to prove him right. In the final area, Mr C will give you directions to the safe that holds the documents to his company. It’s here you find out his plans for you, the documents are in your name, but you need to be quick - his second-in-command wants the company for himself and is out to derail you. In fact, you now realise that Mr C’s second-in-command has been behind some problems you encountered along the way.

Goal
The goal from a players point of view is to start with nothing and progress through the city, blagging jobs, finding places to stay, avoiding thieves and dodgy business men out to take whatever they make – it’s a classic rags to riches journey. Along the way they’ll get help from Mr C - he’ll give the player tips on jobs and ways to progress through the city - he’s keeping an eye on them.

Gameplay
The game follows a point and click adventure game format. Four geographical areas make up the game world - the Roxburgh estate, Stockgate, St.John's and the Grove. Each area is slightly more affluent than the previous. The player can click on characters and buildings in view - when they do a text box will appear with a message. Messages will be offers of places to stay, jobs to take and people to meet that might help you in the city. Not all the text boxes will be there to help - click on someone's house and they might tell you to get lost. Click on a dodgy strip bar and they might try and con you out of some money.

How the game is played
The text boxes will present you with choices and progress through the game depends on the decisions you make. Many of the choices will be financially based - make money doing jobs, take out a loan to stay in a better area and watch out for people trying to defraud you. The player’s task is to progress through the areas unlocking them through
Good decisions about the jobs they take, places they stay and what they spend their money on. Decisions will have consequences, make enough bad ones (take a loan you can’t pay back or blow all your money on trainers) and you’ll find it impossible to progress. As the player progresses through the areas their surroundings become nicer, the jobs better paid and places to stay more exclusive – life becomes better as you make a success of yourself. At various points in the game the player will receive text messages from Mr. C. Some of these messages will lead you to a mini flash game. These mark the end of each level and successful completion of these games unlocks the next area. Minigames will appear when you’ve made significant progress in the area and are ready (and financially able) to live in the next area. In the first minigame, at the end of the first area, Mr. C says he needs you to do a favour for a friend of his. You are to help a café owner by doing a job for him. In the second area you’ll work as a keyboard player in a jazz café! In the third you’ll get a job taking dictation for an eccentric lawyer. In the final area a special challenge awaits you…

You can play 56 Sage Street by visiting www.56sagestreet.co.uk

Teenfront.co.uk would also like to invite our of readers to play and review 56 Sage Street. The best 2 reviews will then be published on teenfront.co.uk.

Reviews of the game should cover the game play and things like - What have you done so far? What level did you get up to?

Please send your reviews into editor [at] teenfront.co.uk