Advantages: Used up a couple of hours on an otherwise dull Sunday Disadvantages: Nothing challenging about it
I've played a few of Agatha Christie's puzzle games, one of which involved Hercule Poirot and I really enjoyed them.
This one however I found dreadfully poor and I'm not really sure what the creators were thinking of when they dreamt it up.
Overview
You take on the role of Poirot who must investigate a murder on board a cruise ship sailing up the Nile.
Features
* 14 suspects to interrogate
* 12 investigation levels
* 24 rooms with hidden clues
* Mini games
System Requirements
* Windows 98 or above
* 600MHz CPU
* 128 RAM
* 57MB Free Disk Space
* Direct X 6 or above
My Thoughts
With all the other puzzle games I've played there's also been a bit of video play to go with them. That's probably not the right technical term, but I mean that Poirot for example would wander around looking for clues ...
Advantages: Wonderful cast, great to look at Disadvantages: None that I can think of!
BACKGROUND
Agatha Christie is the most popular crime writer in history, her books selling more than two billion copies worldwide- she is undoubtedly the 'queen of crime.' It has been estimated that she has been outsold only by the Bible and William Shakespeare. Written in 1937, 'Death on the Nile' is as popular today as it has ever been. Set in Egypt primarily, Christie took much of her African inspiration from her interest in archaeology, as she travelled with her husband, the eminent archaeologist Max Mallowan on many field trips. It is this actual knowledge of the Egyptian area that makes the book so readable, and easy to translate onto the big screen.
I was always a fan of Agatha Christie novels, having read 'Death on the Nile' when I was around eleven. I was immediately interested when I saw a copy of the 1978 classic ...
DEATH ON THE NILE - Missing Objects Game from Big Fish Games. This game is very interesting as it takes the form of an investigation by Hercules Poirot, the Belgian detective from Agatha Christie's books. You seek various objects in various rooms on board the ship where several murders take place. Some of the objects are part of the clues i.e. part of a letter is found and a message asks who wrote the letter? There is a limited time to complete each section with only five hints in each one. In between each section is a mini quiz which can be skipped but some are fun to attempt.
Throughout the game you can ask questions although I never tried this. When the end of the game is reached, the murder is revealed and we are back to day one and you could start again. You buy the game and then download it onto your pc which is a pain ...
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