This is a unique process and challenges the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot to come and grab him by letter

Agatha Christie wrote many great detective stories. One of them now come back to us in the form of a game. The story is exciting in the book, but how does this in an adventure game? Read all about it in this The ABC Murders Review!

The classic point-and-click adventure games are now becoming increasingly scarce. Of those games where you go through a whole adventure by always looking at parts of the world are still passes in the episodic stories from Telltale. Think of The Walking Dead and Game of Thrones. The ABC Murders is located approximately in the same genre, but that's about it.

The ABC Murders Review

Three murders from the timetable
In The ABC Murders we're looking for a killer. This is a unique process and challenges the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot to come and grab him by letter. Poirot and his assistant Hastings go back to the maniac. And of course you'll be there in the game to capture the perpetrator of a total of three murders in the collar.

You kuipt the role of Poirot and make sure that you find all the clues to the locations of the murders and so on the trail of the killer. Once at the site of the first murder you find out that the killer is not directly works on the alphabet, which ABC suggests at first, but through an ABC guide, a timetable of that time.

In itself, the game is very quiet start. A sort of intro murder speak. You arrive at the scene of the murder and talk to an agent, then you should examine the scene of the murder. What is equally striking is that the dialogues are well thought out and also the textual aspects of the game has been worked out to the letter. Exactly what you expect in a book.

The ABC Murders Review

A really good story
And then the game is finally based. But this is not just a book; it is a book by Agatha Christie. And that guarantees a well developed story. And that's exactly what you get. The main characters in The ABC Murders are well prepared and know, to some extent depth.

Gradually you progress in the story also unfolds this is real and that's really cool. More and more details about the killings, the motive and of course the killer forward, so you really want to play through. The whole is just really well put together as regards the story!

But the story and the dialogues can be worked out so well from Christies book, a book has no voice or graphic style. Which developer Artefacts Studio itself so there should remember when.

The ABC Murders Review

Audiovisual not always well defined
The choice was made to give the game a cel-shaded style and misstaat certainly not. The drawn environments look fine, although lacking sometimes at locations inside some detail. We work with fixed camera points in the environments, the game does calm eyes and the characters look generally fine, though lacking here also a thing of detail occasionally.

The voices and the like, the developer had to invent itself and is not everything went quite well. As Poirot has a French accent, which is fine and most of the characters a Scottish or Irish accent, which fits perfectly in the game. But the vote never really give you the idea that there is a streamlined story, what it should be.

Instead, you get to deal with loose talk in sentences that often does not happen as it should. The voice acting in the game makes this area a lot to be desired. And the same goes for the animation to the characters. The game looks nice, but if you have someone who is angry and as a board listed, this does not come inside. The same goes for a drunk like a wax figure sitting on a chair. It just does not feel well.

Fortunately, that with the gameplay in many aspects different. The ABC Murders is a true point-and-click adventure, radiating in all respects from. You walk around in different environments and with your cursor, you can explore many points of interest. You always have the choice of studies, engage in dialogue or interaction with an object. And you have to be a detective to know that you simply have to examine everything.

You will still be the choice during the dialogues between some answers or questions, but there is also said everything. If you just give them a straight answer, always be fine. And that goes for almost everything in the game. There are no real risks, there is no danger and there is certainly no voltage is present.

If you examine everything, you will naturally continue. You'll get some clues and the The ABC Murders you then automatically suggests that you have a question you can answer these clues. And that's again the next simple piece. You choose a few pointers on your Enjoyed and answer a question.

The ABC Murders Review

... Except a few puzzles
Almost all parts of the game modes themselves and the game is far too easy in these parts. But then there are the puzzles in the 'thinking' sections. Most of them are actually too simple as sliding a few shelves in a box. Some puzzles are sometimes painfully difficult and can just take half an hour.

If these puzzles on a larger scale were processed by the game and The ABC Murders can not keep going all the time, it was still entertaining. But now it's just like making a difficult calculation on a calculator. The answer comes almost naturally.

When you need to reconstruct the killings eventually everything goes all to himself, though it does look very nice. You get the piece of history than to see from the perspective of the killer and if you have completed everything in the right way, you can also unlock additional rewards.

These are mostly accessories Poirot that only cause you some different looks and they do not do a lot for the gameplay. Poirot with high Hoeg, a monocle or a thick mustache for the varied kind of funny, but you're finally just investigating three murders. A missed opportunity, as much in this game.

The ABC Murders Review

really saves misses the mark
Agatha Christie: The ABC Murders is a game full of missed opportunities and therefore not interesting. The game features a very good story that gradually unfolds in a really interesting way. While overall the game looks fine on here and there some missing details after.

But the rest is really not very well developed. The voice acting is not fantastic, the animation strips often with the characters and often puzzles the day off. And that does not make the title that it could, not should, be.