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Average Player Score
Based on 151 ratings
8.8
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Score Breakdown Based on 151 ratings
  1. 10 (50)
  2. 9 (60)
  3. 8 (26)
  4. 7 (11)
  5. 6 (3)
  6. 5 (0)
  7. 4 (0)
  8. 3 (1)
  9. 2 (0)
  10. 1 (0)

Most Helpful Positive Player Reviews

  • Rating:9.6

    What the heck is wrong with everyone?

    After Grim Fandango, this is my favorite. It's not easy, it's not short, it has 7 or 9 different outcomes depending on your candor and choices, it has Barry Corbin... It has fmv, interactive puzzles, some action, a great... Read Full Review

    11 of 11 users found the following review helpful

What Gamespot Users have to say about The Pandora Directive

  • Rating:10

    A classic melding of gameplay, stunning originality and FMV done right.

    Tex Murphy is a series which has fell to the wayside for many many MANY years, with FMV games falling out of favor as quick as they rose to prominence in the nineties, Tex Murphy had basically gone the way of the dinosau... Read Full Review

    3 of 3 users found the following review helpful
  • Rating:8

    FMV Fans Only

    You have to be a real actor FMV game fan to give a real review of any real actor game, so many FMV games are just so bad they should be destroyed on site, but in this case Tex Murphy games are so different great movie fe... Read Full Review

    0 of 0 users found the following review helpful
  • Rating:10

    Gamespot rating is awfull.

    I havent play an adventure game since 2000 but in the 90s it was my main computer entertainment. i must have played aproxymately 80 adventure games including the monkey island series, space quest, larry,legend of kyrandi... Read Full Review

    3 of 4 users found the following review helpful
  • Rating:9.5

    Simply one of the greatest games ever made.

    In 1995, I was introduced to Tex Murphy in Under a Killing Moon. Once my family got its first Pentium computer the game was installed and I loved it. So much so, that when I heard that a sequel was coming out I rushed to... Read Full Review

    3 of 3 users found the following review helpful
  • Rating:7.3

    If you can get it to work on your computer you will be richly rewarded.

    This is my second attempt at reviewing a game which is over 6 years old but since it is such a quality often overlooked game I wil try. You play Tex Murphy a burbon swilling, ciggerette smoking, smartass PI just tryin... Read Full Review

    3 of 3 users found the following review helpful