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User Rating: 5 | Agatha Christie: Murder on the Orient Express (2006) PC
By tudyniuz | Review Date:
A few days ago I was just wondering if I could ever work for Gamespot.It ocurred to me that it would be the career of my dreams.So I just thought about "living" the feeling you have when doing what the guys from Gamespot do.So i went to the nearest gamestore and bought a game,one of the cheapest,but not the cheapest one.Agatha Christie - Murder on the Orient Express.I went home with the game with the idea of installing the game playing and finishing it ,and after that i would make a review about the game.Thats what the guys from Gamespot do.This is probably going to be one of the hardest games I have ever played because I won't be playing it out of fun,but because I have to.
So as I promised,I finished the game,it took me I think about one day,and I have to admit that I never used cheats or things like that just to make the experience more difficult.
The game wants to tell a beautiful story but it doesn't succeed.It is a very bad game,a very bad game.
To start of I would say that the installation is very annoying.On the backround there is a music playing,I would personally take away 0.50 from every single game that has music during it's installation.When you start the game the same music continues.This is really annoying because you were probably not expecting to hear that annoying music ever again.But it continues during th whole game.
The graphics are absolutly awfull and the animations horrible.Even though it may seem that the game looks actually nice it isn't a 3D game.Only the charchters are,the rest are foto-realistic landscapes and well not really landscapes as all the action takes place in a train.It want's to be something like Syberia or The longest Journey.It fails.Everything about this game is bad.The storytelling is very bad,the characters and voice acting is bad.The only true good thing about the game is it's title,and some small things that make it look like a good game.For example the guy from the train comes from one end of the train to the other one while speaking with the passengers.While the camera is on the opposite end of the train as him,his voice increases in volume as he aproaches the other end.This is a nice touch,but it could be forgotten because of many other flaws.For example during a cutscene two men are sitting at a table and are talking.One of them tells the other one that he would like his bacon from his plate.But his plate is empty!!!!Both of the plates on the table are empty.An other huge stupidity is Poirot sitting in bed with a blanket over him complaining that he is ill.But he wears a a suit with a tie under the blanket and he even has gloves.
The game is a very bad game but if you really liked the book and you really want to play this game only because of it's story go ahead.But it will just make you hate the book.That's what happened to me because of the game.I strongly recommend you not to buy this game.This isn't even good for renting.You would be better of downloading a demo or something to see for yourself that it isn't worth the money.

My Score 4.8

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