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Ever been interested in playing a Detective style game? solve crimes, unveil unique and mysterious organizations while using your own perception, out of the box thinking, and at the same time experiencing both epic and hilarious conversations and cutscenes?
Early 1990's, there was a series known as "Tex Murphy" and in my opinion, it was one of, if not THE best Detective style games on the market, even today (maybe a close second was L.A Noire.)
Their last Tex Murphy game was in 1998, and now, this month, they are releasing Tesla Effect, taking over after the events of Tex Murphy: overseer.
The series takes place in a scifi/post nuclear fallout universe (civilization is still around, the earth just has some weird looking people on it now.) Now, beyond that I don't personally know what the rest of the games are about exactly, but I know that "Under a Killing Moon" follows an order that wants to wipe out all "impure" life on earth. AKA, the mutants. This would cause the deaths of countless mutants AND afflicted people on the earth while many await upon a sort of "ark" for the purification to commence. Tex murphy however manages to destroy the station and stop the purification. from what I have seen of the other games (very little) I believe the others follow a similar agenda.
Now, what I DO know about the series:
The puzzles and mysteries you solve across all games tend to be very well designed and can require alot of out of the box thinking. Example: the first major crime in UAKM is investigating the murder of a local clown in order for tex to prove that he is a good detective and can handle himself. In the end you learn that the murderer is terrified of clowns, specifically the one he killed which he claims haunts him in his dreams, and how you finally take him down is the following:
Learn of his hideout in an abandon warehouse.
Take note of the crane that still functions above a catwalk,
attach the life-size crusty clown doll to the crane:
wait by some crates for him to enter the warehouse (do not be out in the open or in the wrong place or he will shoot you.)
He enters and places some stolen merchandise and a key on a table. Tex pulls a lever off camera and the crane moves with the doll moving due to battery power,
Tex makes sounds like the clown for added effect,
Criminal runs screaming through a brick wall in cartoony fashion.
There are a lot of hilarious moments in the game, like the one above. Anything from simple lines of dialogue to entire cutscenes. moments like when he says "this is my gun, I LOVE IT SOOO MUCH!' interact with it again and he just plays a scene in his head while swinging it around until he throws it out a window. someone you never see picks it up, tex says "hey, could you give that back? my girlfriend just threw my gun out the window! . . . yea just pick it up an. . . hey, don't point that think at me, ITS NOT A TOY YOU KNOW!" *bang* hat flies off his head, ducks, then stands back up and looks out the window at the camera, "Oh my h***."
Some other puzzles may include figuring out how to get through a highly sophisticated security system to get to a crystal dove statue which may hold the answers you seek, or finding scraps of a note that holds vital information and piecing it together like a jigsaw puzzle. for its time, it was incredibly clever as to where it places clues and how you are to solve them, things like opening a trash can or opening a few drawers and boxes to find items was almost unheard of! at the time the game was released those would more likely be just flat background items! Here, nearly everything is intractable. maybe not to the level of Amnesia: The Dark Descent, but close!
With multiple dialogue options, each having different results and the level of detail in the investigation and acquisition of clues and evidence and the great sense of humor, the Tex Murphy games are well worth playing, and they are available at GOG.com right now for 9.99.
Also, once again, THIS MONTH, the same creators and the same actor for Tex Murphy himself since the beginning, are releasing the next Tex Murphy game which was successfully funded on Kickstarter, called Tesla Effect. The game will be released, according to GOG, on the 22nd. If you order Tesla Effect now, not only will it be 17.99 instead of 19.99, but you will receive a free copy of ANY ONE of the previous Tex Murphy games!
http://www.gog.com/game/tesla_effec.....rphy_adventure
Also, as an added bonus, I spoken to one of the developers about an interesting game mode they could include, and that would be a sort of "custom crime scene." With a map editor you would design a crime scene and mystery across a number of maps if you wish and let someone else attempt to solve it. The developer I spoke to said that is a cool idea but they are too close to the release so they can't add that in now, BUT (and this is important) if he game does well enough, they will consider adding it in later.
Now, I will say this about Tesla Effect, it does look like some of the graphics may be fairly "dated" for today's standards, but its going to be $20 after launch, and if its ANYTHING like under a killing moon, maybe even greater, then it just might be an excellent game, especially if they decide to add custom crime scenes that you can challenge other players to complete later.
So please, check it out, order it perhaps, tell your friends, and maybe try out one of the previous Tex Murphy games. (remember, this picks up directly after the end of overseer, so you MAY want to play that. Personally, I might order tesla effect, get the pandora directive free with the preorder bonus, then buy overseer.)
Let me know what you think!
more links:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twbSgSWxxGM
http://texmurphy.com/
Early 1990's, there was a series known as "Tex Murphy" and in my opinion, it was one of, if not THE best Detective style games on the market, even today (maybe a close second was L.A Noire.)
Their last Tex Murphy game was in 1998, and now, this month, they are releasing Tesla Effect, taking over after the events of Tex Murphy: overseer.
The series takes place in a scifi/post nuclear fallout universe (civilization is still around, the earth just has some weird looking people on it now.) Now, beyond that I don't personally know what the rest of the games are about exactly, but I know that "Under a Killing Moon" follows an order that wants to wipe out all "impure" life on earth. AKA, the mutants. This would cause the deaths of countless mutants AND afflicted people on the earth while many await upon a sort of "ark" for the purification to commence. Tex murphy however manages to destroy the station and stop the purification. from what I have seen of the other games (very little) I believe the others follow a similar agenda.
Now, what I DO know about the series:
The puzzles and mysteries you solve across all games tend to be very well designed and can require alot of out of the box thinking. Example: the first major crime in UAKM is investigating the murder of a local clown in order for tex to prove that he is a good detective and can handle himself. In the end you learn that the murderer is terrified of clowns, specifically the one he killed which he claims haunts him in his dreams, and how you finally take him down is the following:
Learn of his hideout in an abandon warehouse.
Take note of the crane that still functions above a catwalk,
attach the life-size crusty clown doll to the crane:
wait by some crates for him to enter the warehouse (do not be out in the open or in the wrong place or he will shoot you.)
He enters and places some stolen merchandise and a key on a table. Tex pulls a lever off camera and the crane moves with the doll moving due to battery power,
Tex makes sounds like the clown for added effect,
Criminal runs screaming through a brick wall in cartoony fashion.
There are a lot of hilarious moments in the game, like the one above. Anything from simple lines of dialogue to entire cutscenes. moments like when he says "this is my gun, I LOVE IT SOOO MUCH!' interact with it again and he just plays a scene in his head while swinging it around until he throws it out a window. someone you never see picks it up, tex says "hey, could you give that back? my girlfriend just threw my gun out the window! . . . yea just pick it up an. . . hey, don't point that think at me, ITS NOT A TOY YOU KNOW!" *bang* hat flies off his head, ducks, then stands back up and looks out the window at the camera, "Oh my h***."
Some other puzzles may include figuring out how to get through a highly sophisticated security system to get to a crystal dove statue which may hold the answers you seek, or finding scraps of a note that holds vital information and piecing it together like a jigsaw puzzle. for its time, it was incredibly clever as to where it places clues and how you are to solve them, things like opening a trash can or opening a few drawers and boxes to find items was almost unheard of! at the time the game was released those would more likely be just flat background items! Here, nearly everything is intractable. maybe not to the level of Amnesia: The Dark Descent, but close!
With multiple dialogue options, each having different results and the level of detail in the investigation and acquisition of clues and evidence and the great sense of humor, the Tex Murphy games are well worth playing, and they are available at GOG.com right now for 9.99.
Also, once again, THIS MONTH, the same creators and the same actor for Tex Murphy himself since the beginning, are releasing the next Tex Murphy game which was successfully funded on Kickstarter, called Tesla Effect. The game will be released, according to GOG, on the 22nd. If you order Tesla Effect now, not only will it be 17.99 instead of 19.99, but you will receive a free copy of ANY ONE of the previous Tex Murphy games!
http://www.gog.com/game/tesla_effec.....rphy_adventure
Also, as an added bonus, I spoken to one of the developers about an interesting game mode they could include, and that would be a sort of "custom crime scene." With a map editor you would design a crime scene and mystery across a number of maps if you wish and let someone else attempt to solve it. The developer I spoke to said that is a cool idea but they are too close to the release so they can't add that in now, BUT (and this is important) if he game does well enough, they will consider adding it in later.
Now, I will say this about Tesla Effect, it does look like some of the graphics may be fairly "dated" for today's standards, but its going to be $20 after launch, and if its ANYTHING like under a killing moon, maybe even greater, then it just might be an excellent game, especially if they decide to add custom crime scenes that you can challenge other players to complete later.
So please, check it out, order it perhaps, tell your friends, and maybe try out one of the previous Tex Murphy games. (remember, this picks up directly after the end of overseer, so you MAY want to play that. Personally, I might order tesla effect, get the pandora directive free with the preorder bonus, then buy overseer.)
Let me know what you think!
more links:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twbSgSWxxGM
http://texmurphy.com/
