Jack The Ripper reviews

Written by Marek Bronstring — January 31, 2004 at 13:26

Gamespot has just reviewed Jack The Ripper, giving it an overall score of 5.2/10:

"Jack the Ripper is an ironic game, to say the least. It turns the usual gaming trend on its head: The developers spent a lot of time creating a really engaging story, but they hardly put any substantial gameplay into the game. Even by the standards of adventure games, there's little to do here. Nonetheless, it would be easy to recommend this game to fans of mystery stories, but then there are all the bugs to deal with and the grossly disappointing ending that makes you feel like you've wasted your time. Jack the Ripper has a great premise--but poor execution."

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Gamer's Hell has also just reviewed Jack The Ripper, bestowing it their Bronze Award and a score of 8.2/10:

"Jack the Ripper tells an interesting story of what could’ve happened if a certain British serial-killer immigrated to New York. It tells the story from an interesting perspective, and does a pretty good job of presenting it all – especially when it comes to audio. This isn’t a very demanding game, so I’m sure most of the adventure junkies that don’t have high-end PCs will be able to play the game just fine. In fact, the minimum requirements are a 500MHz CPU, 64mb of RAM, and a 16mb video card.

 

I honestly do wish the developers spent more time polishing the game, because the game is buggy at times, and could’ve used some more animations, but beyond that I really liked the atmosphere, and even started caring a bit for some of the characters.

This should be a safe purchase for any fan of the genre, but it could’ve been a great game."

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