This game is a decent game, but it could have been a greater one. The game is pretty immersive, you get into the story, kind of feel for the characters. But in the end there is a real lack of depth to maintain the player's interest into the story and the investigation itself. The biggest flaw to me is the actual investigation, datachucks should have been way more interactive: hidden, retro-active, etc. All you have to do is clicking on indicated sentences, which will add up in the database. Also, the fact that two datachucks can be in conflict is really poorly handled in the game, for example you know this guy has a girlfriend now but you're discovering he got married 10/15 years ago, both information are in conflict while it makes sense that he could very well just divorced before getting involved with his current girlfriend, and yet you have to CHOOSE what information you want in the database. And that problem is also occurring to major hints/clues that influences the story. This makes the experience pretty frustrating when you have to choose what to put into the database if the conflict doesn't make sense. In the same vein, I was pretty disappointed that pictures are actually useless in the game. Some pictures can say a lot more than a whole block of data. To be honest I'm not sure about how I feel about the story, the "plot-twist" that happened didn't make much sense to me. I wish the story was more subtle and in-depth, the characters more complex and the amount of information you have to dig in vaster. Overall it's a pretty good game for the price. I would say playing Orwell was a good experience, even if I can't get rid of the frustration that I loved the idea around the game but the game itself is just not good enough.
