|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Game Information
- Platform: Windows Vista / XP
- PEGI Rating: Ages 16 and Over
- Media: DVD-ROM
- Item Quantity: 1
Frequently Bought Together
Product details
|
Related Items
- Most Popular
- Adventure
- Puzzle
- Strategy Games
Tags Customers Associate with This Product(What's this?)Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
|
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Fun:
Art of Murder ; Cards of Destiny
This is the third game in the "Art of Murder" series. All the games feature, as your on-screen avatar, Nicole Bonnet, an FBI agent investigating murders committed by serial killers. In this particular game the killer leaves a playing card as his(or her) signature.
The game performed well on my system, with no glitches except occasionally a voice went missing partway through a sentence. I usually have subtitles switched on so that was no big deal. There are an unlimited number of save slots. The game requires the DVD in the drive while playing.
Graphics are very well done. The locations are varied and include amongst others New York (a theatre and amusement park, FBI centre), Louisiana (everglades), Maine (lighthouse).
Puzzles are equally varied and mainly inventory based. Emphasis is on practical objects (e.g. repairing a ghost train car). There is a button with a question mark at the lower right of the inventory screen which shows all hotspots on screen. This is invaluable in finding the objects to manipulate. There are a number of action puzzles (defusing a bomb, crossing a waterway by jumping from pile to pile). During these puzzles you can (and will frequently!) die. The game autosaves immediately before these sequences. There are a number of puzzle sequences surrounding analysis of evidence. One hint I will pass on. When assembling the seed under the microscope note that double left clicking turns over the fragment selected. I had to find a walkthrough to gather that information.
The story captures interest right from the start and maintains that interest throughout. Sounds are well done, music is unobtrusive. Dialogue is occasionally stilted but the plot carries the day. There are a couple of twists in the tale that add to the overall picture. Game length is roughly 15-20 hours, which is par for the course for a recent game. The game is very linear, to the extent that Nicole will refuse to leave an area if not all the actions have been done or all the items found. This is perhaps a plus point of the game design. Occasionally items that were previously unusable become usable once another action has been done (i.e. making tea - teabag will not go into mug until mug is placed on stove). This can catch the player out if unprepared for such eventualities. It was worth waiting for the "wet T-shirt" moments in the final scenes.
I felt this was more engrossing than the previous game [Hunt for the Puppeteer]. All in all an entertaining outing.
This is the third game in the "Art of Murder" series. All the games feature, as your on-screen avatar, Nicole Bonnet, an FBI agent investigating murders committed by serial killers. In this particular game the killer leaves a playing card as his(or her) signature.
The game performed well on my system, with no glitches except occasionally a voice went missing partway through a sentence. I usually have subtitles switched on so that was no big deal. There are an unlimited number of save slots. The game requires the DVD in the drive while playing.
Graphics are very well done. The locations are varied and include amongst others New York (a theatre and amusement park, FBI centre), Louisiana (everglades), Maine (lighthouse).
Puzzles are equally varied and mainly inventory based. Emphasis is on practical objects (e.g. repairing a ghost train car). There is a button with a question mark at the lower right of the inventory screen which shows all hotspots on screen. This is invaluable in finding the objects to manipulate. There are a number of action puzzles (defusing a bomb, crossing a waterway by jumping from pile to pile). During these puzzles you can (and will frequently!) die. The game autosaves immediately before these sequences. There are a number of puzzle sequences surrounding analysis of evidence. One hint I will pass on. When assembling the seed under the microscope note that double left clicking turns over the fragment selected. I had to find a walkthrough to gather that information.
The story captures interest right from the start and maintains that interest throughout. Sounds are well done, music is unobtrusive. Dialogue is occasionally stilted but the plot carries the day. There are a couple of twists in the tale that add to the overall picture. Game length is roughly 15-20 hours, which is par for the course for a recent game. The game is very linear, to the extent that Nicole will refuse to leave an area if not all the actions have been done or all the items found. This is perhaps a plus point of the game design. Occasionally items that were previously unusable become usable once another action has been done (i.e. making tea - teabag will not go into mug until mug is placed on stove). This can catch the player out if unprepared for such eventualities. It was worth waiting for the "wet T-shirt" moments in the final scenes.
I felt this was more engrossing than the previous game [Hunt for the Puppeteer]. All in all an entertaining outing.
Fun:
This is the third in City Interactive's `Art of Murder' series.
Like the first two games, the story involves Nicole Bonnet, an FBI agent, in a search for a killer, who this time stalks her and always one step ahead.
Graphics and character movement are realistic, backgrounds are nicely detailed well rendered. Gameplay is the usual mouse driven, point and click, combine inventory items etc. Most tasks are logical and sensible.
Like the first two games, this is linear and most tasks need a key item(s) before they can be done. In a few places, unless you have collected every item in a scene, you can't go back for them once you leave the scene and have to repeat that part of the game.
Cards of Destiny comes with its own PDF walkthrough, which is a nice feature, and you will need to refer to it a couple of times at least.
I got this for under [] and for the playing time (five hours so far) it's excellent value.
Like the first two games, the story involves Nicole Bonnet, an FBI agent, in a search for a killer, who this time stalks her and always one step ahead.
Graphics and character movement are realistic, backgrounds are nicely detailed well rendered. Gameplay is the usual mouse driven, point and click, combine inventory items etc. Most tasks are logical and sensible.
Like the first two games, this is linear and most tasks need a key item(s) before they can be done. In a few places, unless you have collected every item in a scene, you can't go back for them once you leave the scene and have to repeat that part of the game.
Cards of Destiny comes with its own PDF walkthrough, which is a nice feature, and you will need to refer to it a couple of times at least.
I got this for under [] and for the playing time (five hours so far) it's excellent value.
Fun:
Its a Great game but if you go wrong once your in the .... well u know and then you might not be able to complete it .
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
![[Start the discussion]](http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/02/x-locale/communities/discussion_boards/start-new-discussion-sec._V192198663_.gif){kind=small}
Listmania!
Look for similar items by category
Look for similar items by subject
|
