Looks good on paper and bought this very inexpensively but still wasn't worth the price. Mouse sensitivity is ridiculous and even at lowest settings is too high, the slightest mouse movement and you're all over the place. And there is too much "button mashing" required that's harder to do on a PC and the WSDE movement etc etc. If you're on a PC, IMO don't bother. If this was more story oriented and less combat oriented (IMO this is really a glorified Mortal Kombat with some dialogue thrown in), it might be worth it.
It took about 10 seconds (or less) for me to realize that even though I got this on sale for like a buck, I was ripped off. No matter what settings I tried, it was like being a drunken sailor on a boat in the storm from hell, basically impossible to point and move in even the simplest of ways. How does total garbage like this ever make it out the door? I wish I'd read the reviews before buying.
Couldn't resist the holiday discount and didn't regret it, and even at full price it's worth it, though it isn't without its flaws. But first the good: I think the overall game play, interface, and graphics and scenery/overall look and feel of the game was very good. And it had plenty of depth in terms of different characters and backgrounds that you uncover as you go along, props to the writing. The acting/voiceovers were also well done. So while my list of complaints below is longer, don't take that wrong: if you're looking for a whodunit story, this is worth the buy. Just make sure to have a walkthrough on hand. The bad: first, the conversations became very annoying at times because our hero would often ask the same question multiple times, sometimes even within the same conversation, wasting a lot of time. Or he would ask questions which make no sense to ask, again wasting time (like wth with asking everyone if they are medical experts? What a stupid question). Also at times the questions you could ask made no sense given where you were in the story. Also whoever made these games really needs to hire a professional writer/proofreader. Some of the mistakes in this game were embarrassing. But my biggest complaint is the way you had to solve a given question to move on in the game ("progression")....you have to input a combination of documents, testimonies, etc to get an exact match and move on but IMO often what was required either didn't make sense or wasn't at all intuitive and numerous other combinations made as much if not more sense, and they should have allowed that those combinations would also work. I would have never finished this game without a walkthrough because of that...after a number of tries often I said "screw it" and just looked up what was needed. But all that said, again IMO the game is definitely worth it.
