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Lure of the Temptress
Lure of the Temptress is Revolution Software's debut point-and-click adventure game published by Virgin Interactive Entertainment. It was released in June 1992 for Atari ST, MS-DOS and Amiga. The player assumes the role of a young peasant named Diermot who has to overthrow an evil sorceress. "Lure of the Temptress" is the first game built with the Virtual Theatre engine, which Revolution used in the subsequent games "Beneath a Steel Sky" and the first two games in the "
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"Beneath a Steel Sky" became the second game to use Revolution's Virtual Theatre engine, after "Lure of the Temptress". According to Cecil, the original version of the engine seemed less applicable in "Beneath a Steel Sky", as the ability to issue commands conflicted with the gameplay they intended to create. "Lure of the Temptress