This type of PC game is tad-bit out of what I typically like to play. However, I do enjoy a good mystery / spy movie with lots of twists and turns, so thought, why not give this title a go as it was on sale and looked like it might be good. Overall, I'd give the game a 3.75 out of 5.
MY RATIONAL:
1. The story line for the 5 cases were pretty good. I would've like to have seen a bit more "connectivity" to the final case as one might find in a good British Masterpiece Theater series but that's my age talking. Loss of 0.25 points here.
2. Yes, the game was published 5 years ago but the "flow" of the game seemed to be a bit "segmented" and "choppy" for me. What I mean by that: "x" number of clues needed to be found but if you inadvertently missed / overlooked one, you spend your time trying to figure out where it could be picked-up instead of penalizing you for not finding it. Loss of 0.25 points for that.
3. The biggest loss of points (0.75) was for controls that were "off the mark". The developers wanted folks to click on a certain area but the activation area was never in the same area as the point to interact with. In time where timing mattered, one had to replay the section over and over trying to "find" the correct places to interact.
My final appraisal is that I would recommend this game to other players. It was a decent story and worth playing. For me, however, I do not think I'd play it again as this was truly more of a genre experimentation for me.
Cheers!

This type of PC game is tad-bit out of what I typically like to play. However, I do enjoy a good mystery / spy movie with lots of twists and turns, so thought, why not give this title a go as it was on sale and looked like it might be good. Overall, I'd give the game a 3.75 out of 5. MY RATIONAL: 1. The story line for the 5 cases were pretty good. I would've like to have seen a bit more "connectivity" to the final case as one might find in a good British Masterpiece Theater series but that's my age talking. Loss of 0.25 points here. 2. Yes, the game was published 5 years ago but the "flow" of the game seemed to be a bit "segmented" and "choppy" for me. What I mean by that: "x" number of clues needed to be found but if you inadvertently missed / overlooked one, you spend your time trying to figure out where it could be picked-up instead of penalizing you for not finding it. Loss of 0.25 points for that. 3. The biggest loss of points (0.75) was for controls that were "off the mark". The developers wanted folks to click on a certain area but the activation area was never in the same area as the point to interact with. In time where timing mattered, one had to replay the section over and over trying to "find" the correct places to interact. My final appraisal is that I would recommend this game to other players. It was a decent story and worth playing. For me, however, I do not think I'd play it again as this was truly more of a genre experimentation for me. Cheers!