Murdered: Soul Suspect (PC, PS3/4, 360/One)

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[A Robot Bit Me]

Boogerman: A Pick and Flick Adventure has just been unseated as the worst video game title and subtitle of all time. Never thought this day would come.

[Cowutopia]

Looks like shit.

[mollipen]

Played some of this the other day. I'm actually excited for it. Seems they're putting more focus on the detective side and less on action, which I'm a fan of.

[Glass Joe]

That is definitely a plus.

[Yoshi]

June 3

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Eurogamer: 6/10

And it's that underdog likeability that rescues Soul Suspect from the lower reaches of the score table. It's a Good 6, that delightful strata of games that stumble in the technical aspects, but compensate with personality and charm, somehow all the more enjoyable for their imperfections. I can't pretend that Soul Suspect is a particularly great game, but I do know that it's the sort of game I'll still remember - and remember fondly - in five years' time, which is more than can be said for most of its glossier rivals.

The review gave me a Deadly Premonition vibe. I want to play this, but it sounds too rough to pay full price.

edit: Edge was not as kind.

With so little systemic support, Murdered puts all its emphasis on its story, which just can’t bear the weight. The writing aims for hardboiled horror – Dick Tracy by way of Paranormal Activity – but feels undercooked. O’Connor spouts trite observations full of false import. The ghost writing that accompanies clues rarely has anything to say (“Troubled” floats by a scribble on a mental asylum wall) and the ending is an anticlimax, spitting on any connections you’ve bothered to make and mechanically relying on a baseless leap of logic under time pressure. On every level, then, Murdered throttles its premise. Much as it saddens us, given the promise of seeing a 3D Ghost Trick, we pronounce this dead on arrival.