The Adventure Company Agatha Christie: And Then There Were None review

Verdict:

Review Date: 22 Feb 2006

Price when reviewed: inc VAT

Reviewed By: David Ludlow

Our Rating 4 stars out of 5

Review
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If you were worried that the point-and-click adventure game had been obliterated by all those first-person shooters, you can breathe a sigh of relief. And Then There Were None marks a welcome return of the genre.

As with the book of the same name, the game sees 10 strangers invited to a mysterious island, accused of murder by their host and killed off one by one. It's your job, as Patrick Naracott, to find out who's killing them. As with all point-and-click games, you control your character through the mouse. The large cursor is context-sensitive and changes its icon as you move it over objects, so you can see how you interact with them. It's simple to play and you can do almost everything with the left mouse button.

The graphics are atmospheric and bring the remote island to life. However, as the resolution is fixed at 800x600, the character animation, while reasonable, looks a little dated and the in-game effects aren't that great. Still, the surprisingly good voice acting makes up for a lot of this.

The nature of this game, where the guests are killed one by one, means the story telling is quite linear. However, we feel this game is almost too linear and the events unfold in a specific pattern. A bit more freedom would have gone down better.

Even so, there's a lot to like here and plenty of problems to get stuck into, even if you don't have control over when you attempt to solve them. And Then There Were None is an excellent adventure game with an engaging plot and there are hours of fun to be had. We hope more games like this follow.

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