![]() ![]() As in the previous game, the vast majority of his replies are bluntly sarcastic, or wincingly insensitive, which adds to the laughs no end. If you strike up a conversation with any of the various characters you meet the action switches to FMV-based 'movie' bits, in which you get to choose what sort of conversational tone Tex should adopt throughout the sequence. As in any adventure, there's a vast array of objects to fiddle about with and collect. Tex has a startlingly detailed 'Virtual World' to explore in the familiar Doom style - all of it realtime 3D (no pre-rendered 'pseudo movement' here, folks). The basic structure of the game is still about the same. ![]() The one thing that I felt let it down was that the all-too familiar 'blue outline' effect (that plagues every single chroma-key production in existence) is still in evidence here. Star of some of the most gloriously dunderheaded 1950's Z-grade sci-fi movies of all time (including The Amazing Colossal Man). ![]() Barry Corbin (of Northern l-xposurc fame), Kevin McCarthy (star of the fabulous original version of Invasion Of The Body Snatchers), and John Agar. who was also responsible for the pilot episode of Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers) and second, the cast includes a few more recognisable faces: Tanya Roberts (former Charlie's Angel and View To A Kill Bond Girl). First, there's a proper movie director at the helm (er. The movie segments have been given a good hard jazzing, too. leaving the whole looking even more polished than it did before. The entire interface has been considerably jazzed up. If you've never read one of our Blueprints before, you won't experience a dizzying sense of dejd vu when I tell you that this sequel contains a great many technical improvements over its predecessor. Well, that's probably what they'll print on the back of the box at any rate. technically speaking, you could go back and play the game seven times over. naturally, dependent upon which decisions you make during the game. Whatever next? Telekinetic Bigfoots walking through wails?Īccess have also provided a lot more variety en route to the final solution, by including three different 'paths' to the story, and a whopping seven completely different endings. if I remember correctly, are rumoured to have been suspiciously technically advanced (judging by all the archaeological evidence available) for their time. It was only a weather balloon.'' Yeah? Chinny reckon.Īnd if all that isn't enough to set any Forteans out there drooling by the gallon, the storyline also manages to wrap itself around another thorny mystery - the strange disappearance of the ancient Mayan civilisation who. hey whaddya know? The military guys changed their story. Early news reports of the time quoted a USAF spokesman saying that the wreckage of an alien spacecraft had been recovered (cue the sounds of jaws dropping worldwide). Legend has it that in that year a bona fide UFO crash-landed in New Mexico, catching the US Air Force unawares. This latest exploit finds Tex investigating some devious jiggery-pokery involving the famous 'Roswell Incident' of 1947. And based on the current evidence, it looks like being a reassuring example of Bigger! Better! Faster! More! The Tex Files I suppose I'd better staple my sides shut in case they burst again during The Pandora Directive which, in case you haven't guessed, is the sequel to Killing Moon. Some of his insulting, sarcastic replies during the conversation sequences really did make me laugh out loud. Okay, so the plot didn't exactly flow that smoothly, but hey! The dialogue! Tex managed to drawl a smart ass comment about just about everything he came across. Strong on gameplay (I couldn't drag myself away until I'd completed it), it also featured a genuinely amusing script. The player had to guide private detective Tex Murphy through a series of trials and tribulations revolving around some kind of murderous cult. I thought it was fantastic: a thoroughly entertaining mixture of 30 exploration, point-and-click adventuring, and (brace yourselves) 'interactive movie'. Irring You Glad Tidings, Remember Under A Killing Moon? If you're not familiar with it or if you didn't like it. ![]()
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