Still Life

This was a great game and very suspenseful. I only wish that it was compatible with my Windows 8.

Okay, the game's atmosphere and mood is phenomenal, but everything else is borderline average. The voice acting is badly done and some of the puzzles are literally forced. Another bad point about the game is that it feels unfinished. They could've done so much more with the CSI tools they had the protagonist use in the beginning, but the beginning is pretty much the only place you get to use cool gadgets like blacks lights and blood detectors. As an adventure game, I have to take away several stars for the story alone. Some of the situations seem as though they were just forced without a thought as to how it would fit the whole storyline. I wish I could say the exact part that just made me cringe, but it is a spoiler. The story ends in a cliff-hanger that leaves you feeling more cheated than satisfied.

I got this game in CD about 5 years ago, with Syberia 1&2. I played Myst back in the late 90's, but I later was more into horror, FPS and racing. I really enjoyed this game. Sure, it is not perfect, but it is a great game with a gritty story, and it well deserves your time. Between Still Life and Syberia I went from no adventure games in a year to play and own a lot of adventure games in the last couple of years. BTW, when I played the CD version it behaved weird in Vista (same for Syberia 2), running the game in compatibility mode/administrator solved the issue

I loved the changing aspects between modern day and turn of the century-ish cities all to follow a detective story with a hint of the supernatural about it. The puzzles are logical when they need to be, timed-based when they need to be and daft when they need to be...pacing overall is really good and never feels like an endless slog of dialogue getting in the way of the chase moving you from location to location within each time period just at the right moment.

The atmosphere is working and the puzzle there are good, i must compare with The Longest Journey and make 1 star down. But the themed story is here very cool !