Take the role of Miss Black, a whip-smart policewoman who's out to make a name for herself, in Profiler: The Hopscotch Killer. With the help of a grizzled veteran detective, you must find the clues that lead to the guilty parties in several horrific murders. In time, a pattern begins to emerge that will lead you and your partner to suspect you're chasing a single devious criminal. Explore various night time locations around a sprawling city, employ a unique zoom feature to find cleverly hidden items and enjoy unlimited hints as you solve a series of terrible crimes.
Features: * 23 high resolution scenes * Three ways to look for objects * Zoom feature for hard-to-find items * Endless hints * Unlimited game time
System Requirements: PII-600 64M RAM 16M Video 3D Windows XP/Vista DirectX 9.0
Discover the furthest recesses of the Nautilus, take the helm and pass through the Isthmus of Suez, gaze upon hitherto unseen places under the waves! But beware, the apparently peaceful depths can hide terrible dangers!
Inspired from the Jules Vernes novel, Twenty thousand leagues under the sea. Professor Pierre Aronnax, his assistant Conseil and the harpoonist Ned Land are captured by Captain Nemo, who travels the world's oceans on board the Nautilus submarine. Although impressed by the beauty of the seabed, our three friends hope to escape and return to their lives on dry land. But Captain Nemo thinks otherwise Can you help them escape?
Features: - 18 sites to see. - Mini games: reproduce manoeuvres, read a map, find a secret code. - Manage 3 customisable profiles. - 2 playing modes: Standard and Timed.
System Requirements: Windows XP / Vista Display: OpenGL 1.2 Sound: DirectX 8.1 Video card processor: hardware 3D acceleration Video card memory: 128 Mb System processor: 1 GHz System memory: 500 Mb Disk space (PC): 72 Mb
Wandering on the island, he discovers a rare bug, made of gold. He uses a piece of paper to take it. At night, he draws the bug on this same piece of paper, as he is explaining the adventure to his friend Edgar, standing in front of the fireplace. As William takes back the paper, he realises that symbols appeared on it. It must be an invisible ink, revealed by the heat. From that moment, William thinks it is a Pirate's document: Captain Kidd's coded instructions to his hidden treasure. Help William find it!
A THRILLING ADVENTURE:
The bug discovery is only a start. Help William decipher the message left by Captain Kidd! Understand the meaning of the codes used in the message, find your way to the different places, and finally dig out the treasure trunk!
USEFUL HINTS:
Use the Hint: a shiny halo helps you to find one of the objects. No more hints? Not enough time? Find the bonus stars hidden in the scenes to get more hints or time!
MAGNIFICIENT SETS:
Discover Sullivan Island and its darkest places: William's crumbling shed, the Devil's Rock, the forest and its wild life, the desert beach, the Bessops manor in ruins. but also the Charleston fortress on the continent.
Advantages of the complete version :Treasure Island : The Gold-Bug
* + 18 places to observe * + Mini-games: decipher a coded message; find your way thanks to a compass. * + 3 profiles management * + 2 game modes: Classics and Time Attack
Jack the Ripper: Letters from Hell approaches Jack the Ripper from an interesting angle. Instead of playing one of the "good guys" trying to track down the serial killer, you follow the more dubious exploits of John Bert, a reporter who decides that the best way to sell papers is to publish as many sensational details about the White-chapel murders as he can - even if that means making up fake evidence and sending letters pretending to be written by Saucy Jack himself. It's unique twist, but unfortunately the rest of this hidden object game is excruciating to play.
Basically, you'll follow Bert as he slinks around London revisiting the areas where murders have occurred, taking photos of the crime scenes and developing them, posting letters that he's forged, and having constant run-ins with the police, who quickly grow suspicious since he seems to turn up in all the same places Jack does.
In each scene you have to find a list of hidden objects before you can move on, such as clothes pins, a pencil, glasses, or a cloth. After you've found everything, there are usually one or two more things to be done in the scene; for example, the game might ask you to post a letter, which involves finding and clicking on a mailbox.
Unfortunately, the graphics suffer from a washed out look that makes far too many of the objects look indistinct against the drab backgrounds. Either that or they're just too tiny and blobby. I quickly got tired of searching for tiny knives and clothespins in scenes where the perspective was so ridiculously deep that anything hidden in the "far away" portion of the screen might as well have been invisible.
To make matters worse, you have a severely limited number of hints. As in, nine of them. Not nine per scene or nine per chapter, but nine in total, for the entire game. This is simply not acceptable given how impossible to see many of the items are. When you run out, you can earn one paltry extra hint by finding a star hidden in the scene. That goes for Classic mode, one of two on offer. In the other mode, Timed, you can earn extra time by finding the star. If you run out of time in Timed mode you have to start the scene over again. It's worth noting that some of the time limits are ridiculous - you get less than a minute for some scenes.
Besides the unique story, one unexpected bright spot is the bit of "choose your own adventure" that the game throws in. When a policeman appears on the scene you can choose to either run away or talk to him. If you run... well, let's just say you'll end up somewhere unpleasant. If you stay you'll face an interrogation that tests your memory - the cop might ask, for example, what the color of the stage coach was that you took to get home in the previous scene.
There are other issues too. The game is full of infuriating, unskippable mini-games. How many of us have stamp collections? Luckily I used to, which was the only way I knew how to distinguish "English stamps" from the rest of the huge pile. Another frustrating one involved having to assemble an old-fashioned camera and tripod by looking only at its shadow, and if you clicked a piece in the wrong place you'd have to start the whole process again from scratch.
The worst was a so-called memory game where you have to put graffiti back onto buildings after having taken it off a few puzzles before. Unless you have a photographic memory, there's no way to complete this puzzle without random clicking or using hints - but likely you'll have blown through your hint allotment well before.
