Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum

played all "newer" Tex games, this one has timed puzzles making the title a chore, avoid

Вторая часть представляет собой уже более традиционную видеоадвенчуру. Ну что сказать, классика!

I absolutely love the Tex Murphy adventures. I've played through them many times. I'm horrified that they cancelled "The Poison Pawn." This game is just absolutely not fun to play. And this is coming from someone who actually enjoyed "Mean Streets", despite some of that game's flaws.... like having to fly all over the place. I wrote down every clue. That was fun for me. This game is not. Whether it's having to save/load over and over while crossing quick sand, or hoverboarding around lasers, this game is just incredibly tedious to play. I can't imagine there was a developer that really thought people would enjoy some of the grind of this game. The story was excellent, but I highly recommend watching a youtube video and then moving on to "Under a Killing Moon."

Sound: 5 Graphics: 4 Story: 7 Gameplay: 4 Commands: 5 Fun: 5 Time to load / lag: 9 Bugs / Problems: 9 Final (my score, my rules - these is not math, punk) - 5

2039 -- San Francisco, California You're Tex Murphy, soft-boiled gumshoe & former celebrity -- and now you've gone point-and-click. Six years on from making your name uncovering the doomsday 'Overlord' initiative, things are back to business as usual. You're hired by the world's richest man to find his kidnapped daughter & stolen property -- and that's where things get interesting -- from the mean streets, through Mayan ruins, and onward to Mars. A more traditional adventure game that its predecessor, this Access Software title never quite achieves the greatness of it's contemporaries from 1992, like some similar Sierra games. It's still mostly about getting the right keywords from an ever-wackier cast of interviewees -- but now you choose your options from a list. Point and click your way through canned responses & the occasional cutscene or minigame. Gone is your flying car & navigating a map -- but now you get a lot of digitized voice acting, and a lot more neo-noir/sci-fi atmosphere. There's more mystery to uncover, more to do, and more to love in this sequel. It's ultimately a mixed bag.

This is one of those reviews where if steam had a mixed review option, I would choose that. The story is actually really cool, feels like a mix between a noir hard-boiled detective story, with a grand adventure, and it kinda works in its tongue-in-cheek humor. The puzzles though are very hit or miss, some are actually intuitive, especially in the first half, but then when you see that some puzzles are reliant on specific things being uncovered first, and some can even get you stuck in the game, it dampens the experience a bit. The most annoying ones are two puzzles late in the game, one I had to open a 5 walkthroughs just to find out how to SKIP that part because I could never solve it. So why am I still giving it a recommended? Because I still had fun playing it, even though it was mostly annoying. There was still a charm to the design, and the story and characters really still had some things going for it. TLDR; only play this game if you wanna see this awesome story while trudging along puzzles that did not age well.

Great classic point and click

It's a very old school point and click adventure game. You'll need to follow a walkthrough the entire time. It's far too easy to get stuck in a no-win situation.

Tex Murphy is an engaging point and click game. Thing is, it gets tedious to redo conversations over and over again until I find a specific item or realize that I could already ask for questions. But hey, if you would like to try an old school point and click adventure, this is a cool one. This genre just isn't for me or I just get stuck and can't get myself to play more, at least with this Tex Murphy game. Also, I played just a bit of hours, maybe you like it more than I do.

The mouse cursor shoots to the right edge of the screen every time I barely touch the mouse. It's kind of hard to play a point & click game when the pointer instantly makes a run for it like a toddler with his overalls jam packed full of chocolate cake.