You are Tex Murphy, a typical 1940s gumshoe detective. Except it’s the 2050s. A post apocalyptic world has risen from the ashes of World War III and stands divided. New San Francisco sits atop the rubble of the old city. It’s a city of glitz and glamour hiding a sinister undertone: a population segregated between […]
All respectable adventure gamers are familiar, at least in passing, with Tex Murphy's FMV adventures: Under a Killing Moon, the Pandora Directive, and Overseer. But before the days of CD-ROM, Tex Murphy was born into a world of grainy, poorly digitized VGA graphics and a new “RealSound” technique intended to revolutionize the industry. Here we […]
Under a Killing Moon, the third venture into the dark world of Tex Murphy, private eye, was a revolutionary game for the adventure industry. It spanned an at-the-time-unheard-of four CDs and featured all kinds of FMV, the likes of which had never been seen. And even when truckloads of FMV clones began coming down the […]
The premise should be all too familiar to you by now. There's this private eye, name o' Tex Murphy, living as the only norm in a section of San Fran full of post-WW3 mutants. He's down on his luck, scraping together every last dime, living on the edge of poverty every moment, trying to find […]
Martian Memorandum, Tex Murphy's second detective adventure, is truly a sequel to Mean Streets in every sense of the word, boasting many of the same weaknesses and the same major strength: an excellently plotted and well-written story that will interest you enough to complete the game. Thankfully, this time around Access fixed some of the […]
In the mid-90’s, many games incorporated Full Motion Video or FMV. This format featured live actors in lieu of animated characters, thus turning the games into more of an interactive movie experience. These games were pulled off with varying degrees of success. Most of the games were complete flops and only a very few of […]
