Murder on the orient express pc game forum

How the hell could anyone finish this game?! Must say, I am so pissed off. I couldn't finish the game cause of the bugs and the patch didn't help me. At first, I di I was really looking forward to this game. When I saw this at the local Best Buy, I was very excited! Finally, another entry to the series! This o I would recommend this game to anyone who likes detectives but isn't bored enough to try and figure out nearly impossible and wildly illogical riddles that some point and click games present.

I have enjoyed the riddles The title should say it all. This game was ripe to be the Agatha Christie game of all time. David Suchet and supporting cast make the voice acting beleivable and this is what ultimately saves this game.

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Gameplay: It can get pretty repetitive, but the mechanic it has are easy to control and simple to understand. They work great and the overall gameplay doesn't feel terrible at all. Sound: This could very well be empty, as the voice acting is boring, the sounds are cheap and the soundtrack is pretty much filler music. Nobody seems to have informed The Adventure Company that adventure gaming is, by most accounts, pretty much a dead genre.

Ploughing on regardless with Agatha Christie's tales, the majority of Murder On The Orient Express takes place upon the luxurious train itself, comprising of four carriages and the odd outdoors scene. Even if you haven't read the book or seen the film, the title makes it pretty obvious what happens.

However, in a deviation from the original, you play as an extra character, tasked with uncovering the murderer instead of the moustachioed Poirot. Within this limited environment, things are pretty detailed with a combination of static background graphics and a few moving objects just to remind us we are indeed in the 21st century, although the characters don't seem up to the same levels.

Your task is to traverse the carriages, picking up clues, taking fingerprints and questioning suspects. Luckily, for once it's reasonably clear what most objects are for, so you'll spend less time randomly clicking on objects to combine together, although being an adventure game, this does still feature at points. The dialogue is disappointing, being a case of exhausting the options rather than picking the right thing to say.

Plus, with the limited setting, things soon start to feel repetitive. The menu interface, on the other hand, could have seen better days. Every item you collect is displayed in the main inventory section, and each can be examined more closely to search for extra clues, something which works well enough. However, sometimes the need to combine items arises, and this is done on a different menu.

Each individual item needs to be dragged into a separate box before all the items can be combined at once, a process which is fairly long-winded and could have easily been implemented in the main inventory section to make things much simpler.

At least a 'quick shortcut' system has been included to allow for fast travel between different train carriages, something which saves a good deal of time during the constant backtracking. Visually AWE has done a decent, if unspectacular job, with a believable reconstruction of the Orient Express, and fairly human-looking people to inhabit it. At no point does anything stand out as being exceptional, but collectively the locations turn what is a rather confined and relatively small game world into an interesting place to be, and the soundtrack successfully complements the story's events with some enjoyable, if slightly limited, compositions.

In fact, these are the game's best aspects, and their inclusion turns what would have been a complete bore into a much more tolerable adventure. So there we have it. Murder on the Orient Express is certainly competent and has some nice touches, as well as decent voice acting and a fleshed-out playing environment, that all add up to create a realistic and believable setting which stays pretty true to the original book, save for its own few liberties.