James Noir's Hollywood Crimes is a solid game. Not bad, not great, just solid. You can read my thoughts on the game after the break.
The game takes place in 60s Hollywood and is very similar to the Professor Layton games. In Hollywood Crimes you play as yourself solving puzzles to figure out a series of murders. In the game you become a contestant on the TV show The Incredible Puzzle Masters. All the people being murdered where champions on that show. Now lets get on to how it looks.Visually this game is okay. Some times environments look good but sometimes they look like cardboard cut-outs. Now the characters are what creeps me out. They are animated really weird in this real person animated look. This game reminds me a lot of those old Sega CD and 3DO games where the FMV (full motion video) was special.
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| In motion it is funny looking. |
I do have to give them credit for sticking to the 60s theme with everything looking like something out of that time period. This game is viewed in a first person perspective and they do a good job immersing you into the game world with events like your character looking in a mirror and seeing the image of yourself. Now,the gameplay. Like Professor Layton this is a puzzle game. There are many puzzles to solve and all can take time. There is not much else to say. Altogether this is a solid game.
My Score: 6.5/10
I can't believe they are using the old realsitc FMV for this game. Sounds like that could make playing the game a lot of fun lol.
ReplyDeleteWhile playing this game I was expecting a Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch Song to start playing. In case you don't know they had a "game" on the Sega CD where you made a music video.
ReplyDeletelol man the Sega CD is good for a couple laughs eh? Of course, there's also Sonic CD!
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