Benoît Sokal. There are few names in gaming that grab my interest as much as that one, which is strange, because it was only just last year that I found out that this man existed. Born in Brussels, Belgium, Sokal was mostly known as a comic artist for most of his years, creating a series about a drunk, smoking detective duck called Inspector Canardo. He created a pretty wide variety of pulpy works, coloring them with a personal computer, and he probably would have remained a minor figure in the comics world if not for the spread of the CD-ROM. This invention inspired Sokal to try making games, and his ambition grew as he partnered with Microids, one of Europe’s most significant names in the point and click genre. The end result was 1999’s Amerzone, and come 2002, Sokal topped that with one of the most memorable point and clicks ever made: Syberia. It became his most famous work and a major series among point and click die-hards.
It’s fitting that a game so focused on riding a train would go off the rails so hard.
Bi The Dark Side 