The Adventure Games

Doctor Who: The Adventure Games is a series of 4 graphic adventure video games set to be released in conjunction with Series 5 on the official website. It will feature The Daleks, Cybermen, The Entity and Vashta Nerada. The games will be released starting June 2010.

Details regarding the games were announced on 21 April 2010. The games are being produced in conjunction with the Doctor Who TV production team, with Matt Smith and Karen Gillan lending their voices and likenesses to the games. In announcing the games, series producer Piers Wenger stated that they are part of Series 5: "There aren't 13 episodes of Doctor Who this year. There are 17 - four of which are interactive. Everything you see and experience within the game is part of the Doctor Who universe."

Footage of the games was shown after Victory of the Daleks, revealing one "episode" would involve the Daleks and a destroyed London in 1963 with the tagline Fight The Daleks. This was later revealed to be City of the Daleks by Phil Ford, initially announced as being available on the 5th June. A second series of another four episodes has been commisioned for release in 2011.

Availability
The first of the games, City of the Daleks, was released for download via the BBC's official Doctor Who website on 2nd June 2010 for PCs - several days earlier than the originally announced release date of 5th June. It was later revealed that the early release of the game was part of a system test as they gear up for the official release date. A trailer for the game was shown straight after Vincent and the Doctor on Saturday to mark its official launch . A Macintosh version was later released on 15th June 2010.

At present, the first two games are available to international audiences from Direct2Drive, for $3.70 American. However, Direct2Drive has controversially chosen not to make the Mac OS version of the game available, which has had the side-effect of preventing some gaming sites from reviewing the game.

Robert Nashak from BBC Worldwide has also said that in the future, there may be retail versions of the games.

Gameplay
The Adventure Games are a puzzle-based game: the player has to navigate obstacles with a specific pattern to them, crack codes, use objects to bypass obstacles, and navigate mazes. There is little margin for error: most hazards kill automatically, and (as the Doctor) it can be hard to escape from his enemies once they've spotted you. The game follows a linear path: tasks have to be handled a certain way and in a certain sequence.

City of the Daleks
The Doctor's TARDIS materializes in 1963 - and London is in ruins. The Daleks have seized control of time and the only chance of saving Earth lies in a desperate quest to Kallann, the capital city in Skaro, the Daleks' home planet - before time catches up with Amy, the last survivor of the human race!

Blood of the Cybermen
The Doctor and Amy materialize in the Arctic - where members of a survey team are turning from flesh to metal and digging something sinister from under the ice that's been waiting thousands of years - an army of Cybermen!

TARDIS
With the TARDIS caught in a time riptide, it's up to Amy to save the day or leave the Doctor trapped in the void forever. Meanwhile, a dangerous entity is roaming the TARDIS corridors and it hasn't been fed for a very long time...

Shadows of the Vashta Nerada
''London, the 23rd Century. Devastated by a deluge of biblical proportions, the city has been consumed by Davy Jones' Locker. Now the Doctor and his latest companion, Amy Pond find themselves in a deep sea base, a research station designed to study the ruins and salvage some shrapnel of hope from the wreckage. But a swarm of monstrous Vashta Nerada have invaded the facility with plans to feast on the crew. Can the Doctor and Amy survive? Only you can decide...''

Primary cast

 * The Doctor - Matt Smith
 * Amy Pond - Karen Gillan

Guest cast

 * Sylvia - Sara Carver
 * Chisholm - Barnaby Edwards
 * Elizabeth Meadows and The Entity - Sarah Douglas
 * Daleks and Cybermen - Nicholas Briggs

Executive Producers

 * Steven Moffat
 * Piers Wenger
 * Beth Willis
 * Anwen Aspden
 * Charles Cecil

Writers

 * Phil Ford
 * James Moran