Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure

Huge fan of the series and looked forward to this latest installment. However, the obnoxious puzzles, especially the timed one at the end brought the game to a hair pulling screeching halt of irritation. Pros: great graphics and style, fabulous FMVs with the wonderful original cast for the most part. Intriguing storyline and lots of exploration and voiceovers for flavor text. collectibles. easy to use point and click functions, fast travel, 3d seamless usage, great music. Cons: at times its easy to lose track of what you have to do next so there is huge repetition of going to the actors on chandler st over and over to get new dialogues options in order to unlock progression. Other minor intrusions were the constant 4th wall breaks to give nods to dev team, backers and what not. ok, one vanity room with pics of devs is fun and interesting but 6 or howmany? plus multiple flashbacks with old games vids just pulled the game flow to a halt and wrecked immersion. by far the worse flaw is its puzzles, not in their complexity which were very complex at times but its interface. when you clicked a puzzle component it would zoom OUT and the actual monitor section of most puzzles were only 3cm x 4 tiny window. the mouse hotspots within this window were miniscule, at times only a few mm, forget being able to read text or knob identifiers or anything. add in timed insanity, it all just sucked. i had to fiddle with my mouse pointer speed in which to finish the last infuriating puzzle. do yourself a big favor and play on adventure mode which allows skip puzzle function. they are hard not in the good way but rather in interface way. overall, an enjoyable romp ruined by obnoxious puzzles. There are plenty of reasons to still get the game, its wonderful characters, and exploration are top notch. tesla level scared the bejeebers out of me.

And thanks to the kickstarter, they made him alive. The moment, we - the die hard fans of Tex Murphy games, have been waiting for...ermmm...14 years (I think). It's funny though, when I first get my hands on (for me) first Tex game (Under the killing moon), I was around 18 years old and this game was something totally different as other games on PC playing back than...As so many others, I could relate to this future 3d environment and for a moment, it was just as I was truly there. Now, when I am 38, and for todays society standard - an elderly gamer:) - the felling was pretty much the same. Oh BOY, It's Tex again (well, honestly...in my age, there are only 3 games that still intrigues me: Tex Murphy, Civilisation, Far Cry). Did it match my expectations? Well...for the most time - YES. But on the other hand - it has it's flaws. So I will stick with them - since there are almost all positive reviews. I will start at the end, since i was a little bit desperate. Well, I expected to be longer. It's SHORT. There are like 3 different locations. Plus, since there are different endings (which is great), but one wrong answer (well, since it's hard to say, which is wrong or not) could get you to unwanted ending (hey...don't tell me, you didn't want to live happily after with Chelsea, and not some transvestite...). Than are the puzzles - this is the biggest FAIL. There are simple to many of them. Hey Aaron, I know you want, that the game will last longer, but you can do that with more detective work, not some stupid puzzles (I am looking at you, puzzle in mansion and time puzzle at he end). The final problem was the problem with the sound on Chandler Avenue. The fix didn't do (I was playing on mac, and maybe that was the problem. But anyhow, TEX IS BACK, and that's all that counts. It could be better and longer and it could be MORE expensive. For us, fans, the price is not the problem and it was almost to low. I missed box collector edition for 150 bucks. Still 5 stars!!!

A treat for the fans having good old Tex back in a new and modern adventure, plus the glorious returns of the full motion capture cut-scenes a lot of adventure games from the late 90's were notorious for! Unfortunately I did not enjoy my play-through (with the demo) as much as i would have hoped. I'll be honest, this was my first Tex Murphy game, but i am a big fan of point & click adventures and i miss them. That's why i was somewhat curious about this title, but during my time with the demo that curiosity slowly turned in to boredom and even slight frustration after a while. The puzzles weren't all that great, some i didn't even want to do at all (I hate sliding-square puzzles), and for a recent title with 2K cut-scenes the actual in-game graphics are really bad. Now i'm not expecting Crysis-like visuals but come on, there are 10 year old titles that look better then this. It just took me out of the experience a bit, also because it sometimes made it more difficult to find certain items. But again, this is something for the fans and for the fans i think it does what it did best. It's not for me however and i think that a lot of newcomers will have the same experience.

I'd love to say this game is awesome, everything in me does. I've loved Tex from way back! However, I can't play this game. Big Finish Games lied, and mislead consumers. I bought this game on preorder, when Linux support was promised. I KNEW FULLY it would not be at launch, and I was okay with that. And one year later, its still championship level bull#$@# with these people. The game will not even function via Wine as they used video codecs that are not compatible with anything really. I give 2 stars because, I'm glad my money went to supporting Tex and bringing new players to the awesomeness of the series. But I no longer trust Big Finish Games for outright lies from the marketing to the kickstarter and completely ignoring it after launch. And as always, GoG is awesome, and I will never request a refund on the game, they can have my money and hope all enjoy Tex.

I played all of the Tex Murphy games in the past and I loved them! I have searched for a game that could hold my attention like Tex Murphy for years and was never able to find one. I am so glad to see this return!!! As stated in another review, "play it for the nostalgia, play it for the groovy graphics, just play it..." (by Wonderful). Well Wonderful, I fully intend to!!!!!