 He wrote that ""Gabriel Knight" is an exceptional blend of art, game and understanding.It is mature audiences for all the right reasons".In March 1994, the magazine's Charles Ardai stated that "Gabriel Knight" justified being called an interactive movie, with "audio and video that outshines any cartoon and a story that could scare the bejeebers out of Stephen King ... one of the rare titles that lives up to the promise of the overhyped tag 'multimedia.'"