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pblock wrote:

<snip>

> In most books, there are more than one characters.  Quite often these

> characters are in different places, doing different things, which may or may
> not have anything to do with each other.
>
> Instead of having the player control a single character in the game (whether
> in the first or third person) the player would be given an opportunity to
> control several characters throughout the game.
>

<snip>

> Has there been a game like this?
>

Yes. Infocom released Journey, which is still available in some of their
collections.
It was a strongly "classical" role-playing type game (stats, mana, fantasy,
etc.),
where the party split up at several points.

They also released Quarterstaff, which is supposed to be another CRPG, but
having not played it I can't comment.

Peter


