This is a point and click crime solving ga… wait, come back. Oh well. For those of you still reading after I mentioned the words 'point and click', the crime is… Moider. It is based around a murdered professor's archaeological discoveries and his latest project, which is a machine that can change the world's destiny.
Overall this is not really much different to any other point & click game. You find items and use them to get clues or entry to another area, and talk to people to learn new information. And there are a lot of objects that can be looked at. Only a fraction of them do anything at all but this makes it all the more interesting because it diverts your attention from the rather slow nature of this type of game. There is usually something that you haven't examined, or may not of at least tried combining with another item.
The control method allowing you to use items and talk is very easy to use. The only problem I had was that I couldn't drop anything that became useless e.g. I am still carrying around an empty envelope, amongst other things, from early in the game. So the inventory of items becomes unnecessarily long. Thankfully, moving between areas is quick. A handy map allows you to click on where to go and, whoosh, you're there, just like that.
The graphics are very impressive with the backgrounds being full of detail. There are a few graphical glitches though. Our hero sometimes zigzags his way across the screen when walking to wherever you want him to, and shadows sometimes move along a few inches away from the characters on the screen, looking like ghostly beings hovering around. The speech, whilst being clear, can be a bit disjointed, pausing mid sentence while the error filled sub-titles catch up.
My biggest gripe with point and click games is the fact that everything can come to a complete standstill until you find the one thing that allows progression to the next step. These 'stop points', as I call them, really infuriate me and, I imagine, plenty of other gamers. There is a risk of going bald from the fact that you will start pulling your hair out at certain points. I imagine that lots of people will just get too fed up of wandering around the same few rooms, baffled by what to do next, and never play it again. For the average person some of these puzzles can be too cryptic.
If you like point and click adventures, or you have an IQ of 150, or you are already bald, then give this game a chance. It is one of the better, more interesting point and click adventures. It has a decent story line and, apart from the minor glitches, looks gorgeous.
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