This would make a FAR better movie than a game.

User Rating: 4 | Fahrenheit (French) PC
Imagine watching a movie with your TV hooked up to a generator, and to keep the generator going, you have to rhythmically pound your keyboard, or play that old 4-color, beeping Simon game. To me that would be distracting and not much fun. That is what this game was like.
To call this a game is a joke. Even to call it an interactive movie is pushing it.
Although you can perform different actions at times (move the mouse left to open a drawer, move the mouse right to look at the computer screen) it might as well have had one button, such as "press ENTER to continue."
It was kind of like a "choose your own adventure" book, but the choices are very limited. Yes, there are different endings and different outcomes, but after the first one, I had little desire or reason to try for a different outcome.
Sometime you have choices of questions to ask characters, but more often then not, you have to go through the entire list no matter what order you choose. It just give the illusion of interaction.
I thought this would be more like Max Payne without gunfire, but it was nothing like that. It had even less adventure game-like puzzles than that. The puzzles were basically doing tasks asked by other characters. "Get the matches that are in the kitchen." And WOW, you walk to the kitchen and there are the matches! Some puzzle.
90% of the action sequences require pounding two keys on the keyboard as fast as you can, or following a sequence of 4 flashing colors, so if it flashes red, red, blue, green, you have to hit the corresponding keys. How dull. And what is worse, you can't even watch the outcome very easily because you have to concentrate on the flashing colors so much.
The graphics are decent, the plot is good, but a bit cheesy in parts. The main actors are great. The music is good for the most part. The animation was good too. The camera and controls were the worse I have ever seen in a game. They make it almost unplayable, besides the other things that make it unplayable.
It was interesting in a way, I just would have rather watched it as an "animated" movie instead of having to get carpal tunnel syndrome for no good reason.