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A true adventure game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 78 / 86
Date: October 21, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Its been over 4 years since I played a genuine adventure game of the Tex Murphy series style.

Conspiracies is an adventure game that has everything! Intrigue, great plot, convincing acting from the creators of the game, great music from a well known Greek jazz band, excellent graphics!

This is a detective-mystery game, which uses a graphics interface like the one found in the Tex Murphy games. in other words, there is total freedom of movement, you may search over and under several objects. The plot is nonlinear, the player has complete freedom of movement.

The main point in any adventure game, is of course its puzzles. I am happy to say there is logic behind every puzzle, you will never be surprised by the solution to a particular problem.

I would like to suggest this game to hardcore adventure games fans and to the new players who would like to play a solid, classic adventure game!

Give this one a pass

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 23 / 28
Date: April 14, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This review is based on only playing the game part way (DVD version). The fact that we lost interest in continuing to play it pretty well sums up my review. There is a reasonably interesting plot and context for the game, but you will want a walkthrough, rather than hints, in order to move along. The navigation is not as intuitive as many other PC games and the graphics can be crude at times. (e.g. when you are walking around it is possible to see furniture or other objects that are only two dimensional. The protagonist is supposed to be "the best" as a detective, but this doesn't correspond to his financial state or his whining approach. Many times the dialogue with other characters is irrelevant - it doesn't matter which choice you make. Other times, the wrong answer means you have to return and/or start over. Save even more often than usual with this game. On my system I was not able to adjust the sound once the game was started, and the normal setting I use was to low to hear the dialogue, hence I had to try to remember to adjust it beforehand.
The game play is OK, but doesn't always make much sense. For instance, Nick can't begin his first day without coffee and you have to puzzle out how to make it without any water in the apartment. The solution did not occur to me because it resorted to a desparate measure out of proportion to the problem. This is a puzzle for the sake of a puzzle, but doesn't advance the plot or occur in a natural way. You can also miss a part of the play, and go through a great deal of the game without realizing you've missed something, until you are inexplicably stuck. The number of things that you pick up is also limited (though a large number), but this means that you have to go back and "drop" things for later retrieval. However, there is frequently no real reason within the plot context to take some of the things to a given location. There are quite a few cut scenes, which aren't badly done, but your actions are rather limited by them at times. There is the familiar puzzle of assembling a torn up document, but the procedure to do this doesn't work well. This kind of thing has been solved well by such games as Law & Order, so it's not all that difficult. Instead they use a cool 3-D representation of the object, which you can rotate, but this feature isn't used in a very effective manner.

Flawed, but trying

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 16 / 17
Date: April 01, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is a strange little game that reminds me of Tex Murphy #3 (Under a Killing Moon) in ambition and graphics, but frankly it's not nearly that well written. Or acted. The puzzles are convoluted and obscure, with the solutions being not just tricky but ridiculous, practically impossible to figure out unless you just select items at random. Acting, writing, and translating are all equally hideous and amateurish; it's downright embarrassing to watch the lead embrace his girlfriend, both as relaxed and loving as two bricks.

All the same, I'd love to see them make more. They've got the right idea, and the execution can only get better. But next time, guys, pay for professional actors. And writers. And translators!!

Challenging & Different

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 16 / 19
Date: April 16, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This turned out to be a challenging & fun game. I would recommend it for young adults and above due to some violence & "cuss" words. I found the graphics very good & after I adjusted to keeping spaces open in the inventory plus maneuvering using the combo of mouse and arrow keys all went fine. I actually inadvertently deleted my game (this is a hazard & hopefully on their sequel there will be a question pop up asking if one truly wants to delete their player name)! At the time I was about 2/3 thru the game! However, this turned out to be good as when I started over the game went along much smoother because I was familiar with it and I picked up more info from the dialogue, etc.

This game comes with outstanding support for the player. There are forums plus e-mail support! So many games only offer e-mail support for technical problems but this one offers actual game help and they are very prompt and friendly with their replies. The forum people were equally helpful. The only other game site that I am aware of offering such great help is Chemicus, Bioscopia, etc.

Besure to watch the credits after completing the game--you get to see the "cast" having fun!

Cheesy. Tedious. Ugly. Illogical.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 9
Date: February 16, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I had a lot of complaints about this game.

First, it's one of those where you have to go around and talk talk talk to a bunch of different people. But in this game, sometimes if you say the wrong thing, you lose. Of course, what the game is expecting you to say MAKES NO SENSE! You just have to guess and hope you picked the right thing to say. If not, try and try again.

Second, I thought the 2D photo cut-outs pasted into a 3D computer-generated environment was very cheesy and ugly. The dialog dubbing was goofy.

Also, this game wants you to pick up a ton of things (if you can figure out what and were to pick them up), not all of which will fit into your inventory at the same time. But, you never know what you will need! Why would I think to carry around a bunch of chewing gum--because I might need every single one of them at one point, or I lose and have to go back and do the scene over. Very, very annoying, and not fun at all for me.

The load times were also quite slow between locations and at start-up.

I would skip this one.

Conspiracies, one of the greatest adventures after Tex Murpy

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 13
Date: February 21, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is the best FMV adventure I've played after Tex Murphy's Pandora's directive.
It's fun it has excelent puzzles, nice video sequences and I love the look of the main character Nick Delios!
The locations are great, they even put ancient Greek ruins on this game wow!
It has a very long gameplay and it worth playing every minute of it.
The graphics are great, the locations are fantastic and the music takes you in the play.
The story is very complicated and the plot is excelent and I think that this is the point that makes this game great.
I find this game realy worth buying and I hope they'll make a sequel.

Horrible game!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 9 / 16
Date: March 08, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I decided not to listen to the previous reviewer that said that the cutscenes were the worst he'd ever seen and that the game was horrible and I wasted my money!!!! This game is the most horrible game ever and I have played many games and many games that were great and many games that were ok or nothing special. There is no way to bypass the lengthy movie in the beginning everytime you start to play in this "game", which is really a commercial for bayer or painkillers, it gave me such a headache. The cutscenes were choppy and obvious; anyone could have done a better job than that. They should receive an award for worst editing, worst voice acting, worst dubbing, worst acting, worst game ever. If you don't want to listen to reason, get it, waste your money and make them rich. I cannot convey to you how horrible this game is and amateurish and visually backward. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

Don't bother....

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 10 / 19
Date: February 20, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is, for the most part, a complete waste of time. Aside from the HORRIBLE dub job on the audio, the FMV sequences are rough, forced, and contrived...The 'puzzles' weren't so much puzzles as much as trial and error with the inventory items...Unless you get this game as either a gift or at a bargain basement price, don't waste your time and money...

What planet is this softwaare from?

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: April 27, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Clunky interface and static controls make it very hard to get used to and persisitently frustrating. Interesting story, though (and if you like mystery, more the better). I like the video inter-weaving, but the 3d graphics, well (am I just spoiled by the likes of Halo and Max Payne?) truthfully leave something to be desired. The puzzles are way too hard for anyone to ever figure out on their own (I had to cheat, and I like a good challlenge, you know?). I'll bet this guy I know, Dave, could figure it out, he's a puzzle brain-iac...

At last a great adventure game that lasts and its fun!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 8
Date: March 09, 2004
Author: Amazon User

The story? great job.
The game is very interesting with a good plot and with a spice of different cultural elements.
The graphics are very detailed. And you can look and move in all directions, as for the videos I think that our friend "A gamer" didn't read the manual that says: you can skip them using left click.
The videos contribute in the game atmosphere, and they are fun. When I started playing it I was hooked!

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