Tex Murphy: The Pandora Directive

I had never played any of them when I bought the Tex Murphy games on gog some time ago during a sale. I finally got around to playing them. While Under a Killing Moon was fun with lots of goofy humor and cheesy cutscenes and some potential and good ideas it was clearly something not meant to be taken too seriously either by the player or the creators. Pandora Directive is when Tex Murphy became for me a real game series to be respected. It plays much the same as UaKM and has some of the same problems but everything is just done better here. The plot is more complex and involved, the puzzles are better, the acting and general quality of the cutscenes are MUCH better and the game itself is about twice as long and is a true epic by adventure game standards. It fulfilled the potential of the previous game and more. It's easily one of the best adventure games of the 90s and is a must play for any adventure game fan.

Oh man, this took me back. So great to play this again

Great story, with multiple endings. The mood is good, the graphics were good for its time.

The best of the Tex Murphy series, truly the only one that allows alternate paths towards the final conclusion. For Tex fans its a must have.

I played Pandora after playing Under a Killing Moon, games we had 25 years ago at home. It was pretty fun, and I even think I did not complete the game at that time. I love Tex Murphy character, made me laugh quite a lot. The story is pretty good and you just want to know what's next. I did not vomit playing the game which was quite a surprise given that most FPS makes me want to puke (litteraly) so the controls were not so bad. One of the issues with those 3D first person view adventure games is that you will probably miss some objects becasue you have so many places to search and some objects are a bit too well hidden. I found the game pretty difficult but with a good hints system (UHS), the game was still fun to play. About the different endings, it would take too long to run through them all, but I went on youtube after that, you will find all scenes ... and some endings are reaally funny. If you want some fun, be really nice, or be really mean, that will be more fun. On the bad side, there was a bit too much "find the key/code to open the door" riddles but a lot of them were quite fun to solve. There is the unavoidable labyrinth stage, totally useless as usual, but hey, they give you the map, so not so bad, just boring. And a tiny bit of action towards the end of the game, which I always find useless/annoying in an adventure game.