Tex Murphy: Mean Streets

These gun fights are hard.

Чем-то похожа на GTA, полное погружение в вымышленный мир Лос-Анджелеса 2033 года. Игру прошел на одном дыхании, хорошо, что можно перевести игру в оконный режим (Alt+Enter) и вести попутно заметки в Блокноте. А заметок будет не мало. В самом начале сильно помогло чтение оригинального мануала, который я нашел в сети - там во-первых описывается завязка сюжета, а во-вторых написаны точные адреса стартовых персонажей, с которых нужно начать: 4421 Sylvia Linsky - Дочь профессора, который сбросился с моста 4670 John Richards - Паталогоанатом 4920 Delores Lightbody - возлюбленная профессора 4680 Steve Clements - полицейский детектив, ведущий расследование. Это координаты (в игре их называют N.C.) надо вводить в бортовой компьютер вашего летающего Lotus, который вызывается кнопкой N, затем опять N и 4 цифры координаты. Дальше активируете автопилот (A) и в течение 3 минут вы будете на месте. В машине справка по действиям открывается латинской H, а в локациях по F1. С остальным разберетесь. Удачи.

This is totally fine if you want to play an actual relic. I don't mean that in a negative way, but just to illustrate how primitive it is in comparison to even the other games in its own series. Also, this is mostly a flight/driving simulator - think Decker's vehicle from Blade Runner. There is a game here, but the vast majority of what I played in my short-time was flight sim and navigation. I bought this series, as a whole, more for the FMV element, which is prominent in the four other games that came after this one. Also, I was told that the final game in the series is essentially a remake of this one, and much better.

WOW!

Первая часть Tex Murphy, где традиционная адвенчура с живыми актерами соединяется с перемещениями в открытом мире

It's a classic. You have to figure out what you're doing. No tutorial. Just a manual to read. I love it.

Holy hell this game sucks

Sound: 4 Graphics: 3 Story: 5 Gameplay: 1 Commands: 2 Fun: 3 Time to load / lag: 7 Bugs / Problems: 3 Final (my score, my rules - these is not math, punk) - 2

An amazing detective game for 1989 with some experimental features that don't seem to fit (but aren't a problem). Wow. I can't believe how good this game is for coming out in 1989. It's an amazing detective game that is one of the most true to real detective work I have ever played. Yes, it has a strange flight simulator travel option that makes no sense being in the game, but you can just use autopilot and forget about it. While it probably went on a little too long (thanks partially to the real-time travel), it is quite the feat for the 1980s. The Positives: -I got this series for its FMV games that I didn't know came later in the series. When I booted this up, I didn't expect a 1980s game taking me back to the old days of computing with NES-like text and VGA graphics, but there I was playing the game and finding that it was fun for what it was with the little pictures of the characters and interactions to get the next clue to continue the investigation. It is not what I expected, but it is a fun adventure game with animations pre-dating FMV games (and a Drakkhen-like world map you navigate—I love Drakkhen for no logical reason). -This is the most realistic detective game I've ever played in terms of how most of it is just getting little bits of information that get you to the next thing and so on until you put the pieces together. You get some redundant information, which is realistic, and you have to know what to ask about to get the right information, which is also realistic. There are dead-end leads and evidence that supports information you have already obtained. It's really cool how they did this. -The gameplay varies between adventure game, flight simulator, detective game, side-scrolling shooter (a la ♥♥♥♥ Tracy on the NES) and even the RPG element of the item shop to sell items for money. While a lot of it is probably unnecessary and would've been fine being two hours shorter without those elements, it is an amazing experiment by the developers in 1989. -The game makes you take notes like a real detective to get the nav codes to go to the next place. It's extremely fun to keep track of what you've learned. I have to say that I enjoyed having to match what Tex was learning to keep the game moving forward. You can't slack off in this game if you want to progress; you have to do the note-taking and keep track of who is who and what they might know, or you'll spend too much money or fire too many bullets and be unable to complete the game. The Negatives: -In typical 1980s game fashion, the game kills you for combining the wrong command with the wrong item on the screen. The problem is, it also makes you use those commands to progress. So, you're likely going to die. Tack on that my keyboard (not sure if it was the game or my keyboard) sometimes hit the same button twice, and once I died just from my cursor moving over two spots instead of one and dying trying to taste a vine. Just as a quick tip that will save you a lot of pain: try to move every object. Moving things (and using some other commands that would seem to have no business revealing items) reveals items. You only use "Taste" once or twice, but when you do it reveals a key. WTF? -Some of the gameplay elements aren't really fun. I don't need to fly manually to every destination, as it doesn't do anything but prolong the game. So, I used autopilot. Also, the shooting sequences are just moving to the right, ducking, and shooting (either standing or crouched, depending on whether there is a wall between you and the enemy). But the adventure and detective elements—keyboard double-presses notwithstanding—were fun. -It's pretty long for a game where you just keep getting new nav coordinates, talking to new people of interest, and exploring new rooms that have hidden money, cards, and information for the next place to go. Because of how long it is and how long everything takes, I found myself playing the place I was at and then referring to a guide to check that I got everything just so I wouldn't have to backtrack (which would take many minutes) and redo game elements (especially when you have to do the shootout every time you return to a place with said sequence). I only missed one passcard on my own, which required I move something to reveal a note with the code to the Beach House. Sad that the only thing I missed didn't have a second way to discover that number like some of the other locations did. -The developers joked that Michael J. Fox would be president in 2033 and that they would be on Back to the Future 17. They both didn't see his Parkinson's diagnose coming and didn't know that the Bobs (Gale and Zemeckis) would refuse to allow any new BTTF movies after the trilogy was completed (there is a nice video game if you want a 4th one, though). Overall, I can't believe this game from 1989 is probably the best real detective game I've ever played despite playing many over the years. It has plenty of flaws, but the detective part is so realistic and interesting. I have my notepad with all of my clues and loved making sure I got everything. Most other detective games are like memory games or puzzle games or whatever...but this is straight-up detective work of interviewing people to get new information to use it to continue the investigation. What a gem. This is the kind of game I never knew I wanted to play. Yes, you have to suffer through the slow travel—I wrote what must be a dozen Steam reviews and did some file management on my computer while waiting for the game to get to the next destination—but the game you get to play outside of the flight simulator and two-screen shooting sequences is worth it. I recommend you try it even if you were skeptical like me that it would be any good. If you like detective work, this is the real work. Just be a good speller and watch the typos. ;)

Got around to streaming and playing this and I wasn't entirely certain what to expect with this game, but I'll try my best to be fair both considering the time it was made, but also by certain modern standards where applicable and fair. Tex Murphy: Mean Streets is the first of the Tex Murphy series. The latest, being a kickstarted project named "Tesla Effect" that I know little about as I try to enter all these games without prior knowledge. That said, much of the prologue is contained in the instructions due to limitations at the time. Like any mystery, this starts with a death, a PI and a young woman begging you to listen to her. The young woman's father was a scientist named Carl Linsky and he was found dead in the river after jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge. The police and Tex initially think suicide, however, she begs him that it can't be the case since Carl nearly drowned in that river and was terrified of going anywhere near it so him committing suicide there was extremely unusual. Armed with this knowledge, you get taken down a rabbit-hole of science experiments, a political party and a suspiciously high number of scientists committing suicide. I'll keep the rest a secret, but beyond the mystery of Carl Linsky's death, there's a lot of dark humour in this noir-style Sci-fi detective game and for a deeper look, here's my first part of the game: https://youtu.be/OuVKPzfsio0 Continuing on however, I do have a few issues, but also some praises. Now the "FMV" factor of this game is pretty light as it's about as much motion as the infamous "Plumbers don't wear ties", but where that game failed to do anything competently, this game excelled in many of those areas. The mystery has you hooked, your contacts are semi-animated on your video phone and you have a large variety of things to talk to people about that the instruction booklet even recommends to you. Beyond that, the mystery unfolds organically and for entertainment value when investigating you have the typical options for a early point-and-click game "look, move, take, use, on/off" but you have "taste" as an option too, leaving to some hilarious dialog which either makes Tex seem crazy or the computer just starts calling you a stupid. You also get some other fun bits of dialog like when tasting a painting Tex says "Art is a matter of taste, right?" and many other similar bad jokes. You can also get electrocuted from licking light switches which I do not recommend anyone do. I was surprised that there are a number of shooting segments in this game. 3rd-person 2D side-scrolling shooting which was quite fun, but kind of annoying as it seemed there was a never-ending supply of enemies in every location and they were all the same with the same weapons, but you had cover and they never fire down to moving through gunfire is actually fairly easy and fun. To cover the negative, the issues I have are the usual ones seen in many point-and-click games where at times it isn't too obvious where you need to go or what clue you may not have picked up on, but that's a minor thing. The other though, which is pretty big, is the flying. Now I am sooooo damn glad that they have it where you have a autopilot to take you to a destination, however, it isn't perfect and every location you have to fly to in real time which really drags the game down and meant I had to cut off large segments of my stream because of how all you're seeing is that you pass vague shapes. You also have the sound of the engine (which you can disable) but there isn't much else and extra long trips, especially when you aren't certain where to go, can be draining, but that's about it for negativity imo. This is a world where apparently nuclear war happened, mutants and heavily armed fascists are on the streets and most surprising yet! Michael J. Fox is president! 9/10 I licked a light switch and it's taste was shocking.