By D. C. Petty "deepori" (Stockport, Cheshire United Kingdom) - reviews
This is a point-and-click adventure. It starts and finishes in Paris with travel to Spain and Cuba between.
Control is entirely mouse driven and works well. The DVD disk is required to be in the drive to play. There are unlimited save slots each with a thumbnail picture to help remind the player.
I've not played the previous instalment, "FBI confidential" so no comparison can be made by me. I have played "Chronicles of Mystery : Scorpio Mystery" (this game was also produced by City Interactive) and both these games are of similar quality and attributes.
Graphics are fine. Settings are well reproduced. Acting is OK. There is very occasionally a lapse in vocabulary i.e. bin (trash can) becomes "basket" for instance. This betrays the European origin of the game. The plot is, of course, about a murder investigation. Actually its about a series of murders. Interest is kept up throughout the game which took me roughly 18 hours to complete. Puzzles are inventory based and mostly readily solvable. There are a couple of puzzles which involved several objects (one in each of Marseilles, Havana and Paris close to the end) which are tricky to complete. I had to consult a walkthrough for the Havana puzzle. There is one slider puzzle which I found fairly easy. There are a couple of timed puzzles where you can be killed. Fortunately the game automatically saves immediately before the timed section so no progress is lost and retries can be done easily. On the sound side, background music was unintrusive. Incidental sounds were well done.
The game is very linear. If you miss an object or action then the game prevents you from leaving that location. There is a hot-spot revealer which is useful to check nothing was missed. Items used are discarded from the inventory automatically.
So, to sum up. The game plays well. The story holds interest and is completed in this episode. The puzzles are reasonable (some perhaps a little harder than previous games from City Interactive). The game is a reasonable length. It played bug-free. This is a solid game.
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