The client is drop-dead gorgeous. Her father is just plain dead - of an apparent suicide. She's certain he was murdered and is willing to do anything to prove it. Tex Murphy, P.I., is willing to do almost anything to make rent. The investigation leads Tex into the heart of a dark secret.
An elite team of specialists have created something unspeakable.
Now each of them are marked for death, and so begins the reign of the Overseer...
This game has been patched to the latest official version: 1.04
Minimum system requirements: Windows XP or Windows Vista, 1 GHz Processor (1.4 GHz recommended), 256MB RAM (512 recommended), 3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 8.1 (compatible with DirectX 9 recommended), Mouse, Keyboard.
Average customer rating 4.5 out of 5.0
Tex Murphy - the prequel
(by
Danda)
Access Software intended to continue the Tex Murphy series, but there was no time for a new story, so "Tex Murphy: Overseer" was conceived as an ambitious retelling of the first game, "Mean Streets", with state-of-the-art FMV videos and 3D environments. The timing was not right, though: adventure as a genre was dying, Access Software was sold to an uninterested... full review Microsoft, and it was still too early for DVD tecnology, so the superior DVD version or the game was (and still is) unplayable on most computers.
If you have played the previous Tex Murphy FMV games, you know the drill: a sci-fi noir story performed by familiar TV actors in virtual backgrounds, with lots of puzzles and the best hint system ever. And like the previous games, "Overseer" is once more a great adventure game, still miles above other FMV titles.
You can play the CD version currently available here. Still, if you are new to the series it would be a good idea to start with "Under a Killing Moon" or the previous installment, "The Pandora Directive" (one of the finest adventures ever made), and continue here if you like what you see.
With a sad heart, i write the review for the last full tex murphy release, finishing with an awesome climax that left me literally wanting more, this is a superb game!! Bring on project fedora!!!
Murphy's fifth adventure & remake of his first.
(by
pavelski)
Tex Murphy first apperance was in Acces SOftware's game Mean Streets. I played all games with TM character and can say that Overseer is superior version of the first game in series. Abyway as a big fan of a series and adventure games at all I must admit that Overseer is solid game but Pandore Directive was best of whole series.... full review
Story is as always strong point of the game and this time. Mayby it isn't as enjoyable as in PD but instead it's, I think, deepest Tex Murphy plot. Overseer maintains the lighthearted side of the Murphy mythos, but then it tries to take us into the nature of man itself. The game tackles Tex's evolving beliefs, explores his failings of trying to create a perfect world.
Like Pandore DIrective and Under a Killing Moon game uses the Virtual Engine and it's pleable as any 3D style game. You have full freedom to explre various enviroments, looking up or down, looking at things, opening or taking them. You can also combaine items at your inventory to make new ones. Many puzzles also present, some of them quite difficult but I presume it's not a problem for adventure fan :-) Overseer doesn't do mutch to improve gameplay of Pandora or Moon but if stomething isn't broken so why to fix it...
Tex Murphy Overseer is challenging, fun, lenghty and in most part engaging adventure game. Owners of previous pieces propably bui it anyway, and it's worth it but if you are new fan of TM series good idea will be to buy first previous Tex's games. I suppose the greatest compliment I can offer Overseer is this: It makes you want the next one. Badly.
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pavelski)