Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure

Overall I find the game to be good. I enjoyed lots of areas and puzzles - the entire Chandler Avenue, Mason's House and most of all I loved the setting and puzzles in the swamp house. Unfortunately the final days (the building of TLS) and its puzzles sort of ruined the mood for me and I sort of forced myself to move on. I played the game with Italian subtitles and the translation isn't always accurate. There are also some missing texts and some items appear with error messages instead of descriptions. I don't know if the problem is just with the Italian language or with others as well. Subtitles during dialogues disappear WAY too fast. During dialogues it's often hard to predict what Tex is going to respond, because clickable responses are very vague. It turned out often that Tex said something what I didn't expect / want for him to say. All in all, the game is good and up until the final days I had enjoyed it. It doesn't really hold a replay value for me, though.

Like in the good old times, with some puns, and a nice case, it's a game that will talk to every nostalgic of the Tex Games. It is really good and fun to play, it's has really that nice old feeling.

I am going to savor this and enjoy it. Thanks for bringing back such fond memories - really well done.

Fans of this franchise will likely love this game. New comers or gamers expecting a polished title with modern visuals will likely be disappointed. While the FMV looks amazing and blends well, the game world that you maneuver in is extremely dated and plain graphically. There are several audio issues ranging from volume changes, displaced sounds, low quality, etc. The biggest problem I found is with the "paths". There are 3 advertised paths with 5 total possible endings. One of the ways to help follow a path is through arbitrary and completely non-intuitive dialogue choices that completely remove any semblance of choosing anything. You can score perfect on the detective scale, find all the collectibles, AND make the choices in the VERY sparse conversations you are allowed to... but none of that matters if you couldn't read the dev's mind during the dialogue options during unrelated conversations. Finding out in the end that I was stuck with a "losing" ending after specifically choosing what I felt was the best ending left me with a bitter sweet feeling that is heavy on the bitter side. The game was littered with other bugs, quality issues, and frustrations that accompany budget titles. For the price point, This is a very good and recommendable game. But customers should not expect a AAA title.

The intro of the game is so awesome, gave me chills and reminded me of Bladerunner. When you have a high end desktop there will be no issues but on my laptop I had serious sound issues (on my desktop it runs like a dream) , still hoping that a patch comes out because in the weekend my desktop gets hijacked by the kids and I want to continue this game !. If you got the hardware buy this game, possible the best release of 2014 !