Fails to convey Poirot's sharming personality, the game feels flat and unsinpiring.

User Rating: 5 | Agatha Christie: Evil Under the Sun PC
By ShinGnosis | Review Date:
Some people believe that adventure games are about solving puzzles - they are partly right, but mostly wrong. At the very core of all good adventure gaming is the ability to tell a story and convey emotion. If a game fails to do that it falls flat, and that is just what has happened here.

The story is by Agatha Christie so it can't be that bad, but the graphics are uninspiring and ordinary, the voice acting feels forced and unnatural, there is no "joy" in the game. Poirot is just some old fat bloke walking around; there is none of his usual seductive charm here.

I can't recommend this game at all, I was hoping that this Agatha Christie series might at last spring to life but that doesn't seem to be happening, it's as stiff and boring as ever. Buy something else, like Syberia, The Longest Journey, The Black Mirror or The Moment of Silence for instance.

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