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Absolutely engrossing, unique game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: December 21, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I love this game. It's beautifully and painstakingly designed; the characters become quite real as you go along; you actually -feel- like you're on a train in the early 1900s. Amazing.

I still haven't finished the game, although I found a walk-thru (on the Internet) and printed it out just in case I should decide to use it. But the great thing about this game is the atmosphere and, in my opinion, soaking it up is half the fun, so I'm really not in any hurry to complete the game.

There are some shortcomings, but other reviewers have described them quite well. All in all, the game's shortcomings are not significant enough to lower my opinion of this truly outstanding game.

A One-of-a-kind Game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: May 09, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I must start this by saying that words cannot discribe this game to any length. This game combines the roleplaying technique that most people enjoy, the action technique which is always fun, and, at the same time, carries a very complex and intriguing plot. What starts as your basic murder mystery quickly evolves into something much bigger. So big that, according to the game, it helps to start World War 1. In the meaned time, you don't have to continually worry about saving your game after your every move, like most games these days.

The only thing you might want to argue about is that the game goes on a sort of time limit. Very slow, of course, but you go from hour to hour, and gradually day turns to night, and in that much time you could miss a very important clue, or even be killed or arrested and loose the game.

In all this is one game that is 100% worth your time and money. You deffinately won't be sorry.

THIS IS SO GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 8
Date: September 24, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I totally love this game. The story of this game is excellent. The fighting scenes are very fun.It is a little hard but still great fun. The graphics are great too. The length of this is very long which makes it great because you don't finish it in like, one day.

I real enjoyment!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: May 18, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I just finished Clue Chronicles: Fatal Illusion and The Last Express was so much better. The Last Express doesn't have the graphics and is half the price of Fatal Illusion but it was twice the game. It doesn't really have puzzles in it though if you're looking for that. A real good Adventure/Mystery.

A Really Great But Challaging Game!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: June 13, 2001
Author: Amazon User

The Last Express is a wonderful game! It's great how you get to wonder around the train, like you were really there! Some parts are very puzzling though =P There are many different paths to take, If you do this you might die, if you do that you will win! It's really good for those of you who like a challenge! Once you start you can't stop playing ^_^ I've played it 9 times!

Europe, Trains, Murder, Romance - The perfect adventure game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: June 10, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I would highly recommend this game for those history buffs who like trains and like to solve murder mystries on them. The soundtrack for this game is nothing short of classic Hollywood. The game takes to you inside The Orient Express. Europe is literally on the brink of World War I. You are a young American doctor who is invited by a close friend to join him on a trip to Constantinople. Before you even board the train certain events have transpired, which affect the rest of your journey.
The story revolves around the charcters on the train.
And you meet several interesting ones - a German industrialist, a Russian anarchist, a young and innocent Russian girl and her grandfather, a remnant of the Czar, a Serbian rebel couple, a North-African tribal chief, just to name a few. In all, about 30 charecters. You really have to understand each character, their mannerisms, and their movements and behavior in general. They all play an intricate role in making the story.

There are lots of death-defying stunt fights, magic, romance and great music. This game is nothing short of the Indiana Jones Trilogy.

I'm sorry, but this game is terrible!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 13
Date: July 23, 2001
Author: Amazon User

There are two main problems with the game. One is the mechanics: it attempts to play in pseudo-real time. Which means that if you aren't in the dining car when Anna talks about the Phoenix, you've missed your one and only chance at hearing that conversation. For the most part you can succeed without hearing all of those conversations, although the game doesn't handle this completely gracefully. Sometimes your character will act as if he heard something that he never did. For instance, when I first started playing the game I walked into the dining car and sat down next to a German man and said, "Hello Herr Schmidt." Imagine my surprise, I had no idea my character knew who this was. It turns out that if you are in your room at just the right time the conductor comes to tell you that Herr Schmidt is waiting in the dining car for you. Even though I missed that, the game still thought I knew Schmidt's name.

The far worse aspect of this "real-time" game play is you spend a lot -- and I mean A LOT -- of time walking back and forth in the halls of the train. Which wouldn't be too bad except that the game world is amazingly small for a game on three CDs. And there is very little to interact with. So when you have a concert at 3:00 and it is only 1:15 now, you just walk back and forth, up and down the train, clicking on anything and everything even though there isn't anything for you to except wait until 3:00.

But those are technical details. They could be overlooked if the game was completely engrossing with a compelling, immersive, believable story. The problem is that last word: "believable". Almost every aspect of the game is unbelievable.

Imagine this, you arrange to meet a friend on the train. You board the train and make your way to the room you share with him. Inside you find his dead body. What is your reaction? Call the conductor? Report the murder? The game doesn't even allow those options. Nope, instead you toss his body out the window and put on his jacket. Huh?

Later on you are invited to a concert. You stand up in the middle of the small private concert (with about 5 spectators listening), exit through Door A, climb onto the roof of a train, break a skylight to enter a private room, and find a suitcase full of gold. What would you do? Climb back up through the skylight, taking the gold with you? Nope, the game won't let you do that. Your only option is to walk back into the concert, this time coming in through Door B (and carrying a suitcase you didn't have when you left through Door A). You walk past the five people listening to the music who show no suspicion or in any other way indicate that something is out of place. Huh? What's going on here.

Likewise the conductors will prevent you from entering other people's rooms, but they seem to have no issues when you mysteriously emerge from supposedly locked rooms.

All in the all the game is just way way way too forced. It is impossible to suspend disbelief and take part of the game world. The provides a small amount of free action but only enough that it becomes extraordinarily frustrating when you run up against its many, many limitations.

Please don't waste your time on this game. (Not that it takes very long to finish, you can do it about 10-15 hours.)

The Last Express

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 9
Date: December 11, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I definitely don't care for nonlinear games. I may go back and try to solve this one again some day, but for now, I prefer games with puzzles and progress. I did a lot of dying the few attempts I made at the Last Express.

Excellent!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: May 25, 2001
Author: Amazon User

A gripping and moving piece of business, this. The absence of background music, the real-time action, the many languages, and the historical setting combine to give you a feeling of having actually ridden the Orient Express in the years before the Great War. I'd recommend it for experienced gamers or people with a lot of patience, however; it's not a simple game to play, and the puzzles are difficult and rely on your being in the right place at the right time. (And it's in real time, which means a half-hour concert really does take thirty minutes. Be prepared!)

Adventurers Out There!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: June 01, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Where do I even begin? I have no complaints! The music arrangement was beautiful. The scenes dramatic and exciting! This game contains international intrigue, suspense, mystery and romance. I enjoyed playing Robert Cath, an American fugitive with a mysterious background who has come onboard the Express to visit an old friend. When he arrives, he discovers his friend has been murdered. Robert then embarks on a quest to find out who did it and why. There are a few fighting scenes but if you get killed, you can set the clock back and try again. The game is in real time, which I found to be an advantage giving you a true sense of your surroundings. There is a need for urgency in some scenes where you have so much time to complete a particular task, which I found challenging and exciting. There are times when nothing is going on so I kept myself busy reading the paper or exploring the train. The time frame is just before the outbreak of WWI so if you like history, you'll enjoy reading the newspaper articles regarding that era. You eat, sleep, explore, talk to people, listen to conversations just like you would in real life. The effect is amazing! I would recommend this to history buffs, adventurers and romantics.

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