![]() ![]() The two objects that held me up were Eddie's birthday fax and Eva's computer pass, though I know other people got stuck trying to find different things. It seems to be a matter of catching the pixel at the right angle for it to show. The things that will probably hold you up the longest tend to be the hunt-the-pixel-to-discover-the-missing-object type problem. Under a Killing Moon has a good variety of puzzles, some of which require a bit of thought, but most of them are fairly easy even without recourse to the very extensive, step by step on-line hints. You are sure to want to try out some of them just to hear what Tex says. It is advisable to save your game before talking to people because rather than simply clicking on a predetermined sentence the interface presents you with three 'attitudes' that you can strike which will elicit various responses - not all positive or helpful. The game play itself consists of finding objects to manipulate and talking to the characters you meet to see what you can learn, or to find out what they want in exchange for information. ![]() Of course, without meaning to, you stumble into a gigantic conspiracy led by a right-wing, fundamentalist pseudo-religious group known as the Crusade for Genetic Purity that threatens the lives of all the people on Earth, your own included. (The irony here is that in parodying the 1930's detective genre the stereotyping perpetuates the sexism that the game world claims to have overcome).Īfter some much needed soul searching you decide that you must do something about your life and resolve to find a case, any case, that you can work on. Set in 2042 after World War III in the area of what used to be San Francisco, society is divided into Norms and Mutants and, though a Norm yourself, you prefer the company of mutants - the new underclass now that racism and sexism have been eliminated. ![]() Whatever happened to taking responsibility for one's own actions? A not-so-promising future Click on the photo on your desk and you learn that your predicament is all your ex-wife's fault which, at the beginning of the game at least, makes you something of a sad case. In a parody of that 1930's trench-coated, tough-guy American PI made famous by Humphrey Bogart, you control the character and play the part of Tex Murphy, a down-on-his-luck, caseless Private Investigator who finds solace only in a bottle of bourbon. Review by Gordon Aplin (January, 1995) Beneath the surface gloss of Under a Killing Moon there hides a quite respectable adventure game, particularly for those of you who prefer your detective mystery stories in the style of Raymond Chandler rather than Agatha Christie or even Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. ![]()
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