Genre: Adventure
Perspective: 1st-person
Gameplay: Puzzle elements
Art: Full Motion Video (FMV)
Narrative: Adult, Detective / mystery
Published by: Interplay Entertainment Corp.
Developed by: Entertainment Software Partners
Released: 1994
Platform: DOS
This game - a political thriller. Made in the form of an interactive cinematic multimedia. The plot is this: someone soaped Reed Hawke to become president. Its financial position is quite strong, but not so on the moral character. However, at first everything is pretty decently. The whole little family (Hawke, his daughter and son, and my sister and her adopted daughter) came together in a villa on the weekend. Besides them there are in the house of the chief Frank, secretary Boss (they are - lovers), as well as the bride's son and one daughter. Them unfold, until finally, one of the members of the family do not feel an urge to blow the whistle on the Hawk. Each of them is known for some creepy fact of biography Hawke, who does well not to make public. And when Hawk calculates a traitor, that does not stop at murder. Moreover, the victim can be any of the four family members. This is so you can play it more than once.
So, you are hired by the police to monitor the Hawk's home. This is done using a special device from the window of the house opposite. You can look in the windows and control the situation. And time goes by ... At 10:30 on Sunday is already possible to make a corpse. So we must be careful.
When placing them on the windows and icons appear: loop, eye or ear. Accordingly, if you click the mouse, you can contemplate the material evidence, video or audio scene. All this is automatically written to the tape. Left column is the time. It is designed for half an hour (relatively, of course). And the events taking place in different rooms at specified times, often at the same time. And you-you can not burst. Therefore, part of the story is inevitably left behind. And your task is to detect crime scenes and exposing the criminal.
If you guess who is at risk, then it can prevent tragedy by sending him a tape of the scene from which the clear intention of Hawk. This is one final option. However, if you make a mistake and sent the wrong tape, the final will be very different ... If you do not understand who is the victim, but saw the time of the murder, to call the police. Hawk jail. Unless, of course, there are scenes on the tape, his damning. Hu and if you shuffled all completely (which is most likely to happen), the Hawk gets the presidency.
All played with the mouse. The left button "looks" right - stop viewing. From the sight of the house can come off right and get back to his room, where there is a video recorder (watch the scene memorized), phone the police envelope to send tapes out to DOS ...
Some advice: do not strain at the beginning of the game. Almost all the top goes without options and contains no crime. Only the last 1.5 hours of shedding light on the truth and will vary from game to game. And often it is the last half hour, in which actually is murder.
- Superkey gives you a wonderful, fantastic tool to monitor the situation - the ability to stop time and even move it back and forth!
- 1 - freeze / release time.
- Gray (+) - move the cursor forward!
- Grey (-) - To move the arrow back!
- However, there are some difficulties. Since the game is tied strongly to the continuous current time, these movements can bring her out of herself.
- One can not, for example, the most watch video scenes. Crashes game provided.
- When frozen time on the tape did not write. Alas. So if you want to get something out there for the affected victim / police, the release time before recording.