Still Life Demo Available
Company: The Adventure Company Product: Still Life
Have you met Victoria McPherson? How about her Grandfather Gustav (you can call him Gus)? Well, now?s your chance. Head over to the Still Life website and download the official Still Life Demo. Featuring the first few areas of the game, players will play as both Victoria and Gus, exploring a gruesome crime scene and utilizing a variety of forensic tools.
In Still Life, players step into the role of Victoria McPherson, a brilliant young FBI agent and the granddaughter of Post Mortem?s famed Private Detective, Gustav McPherson. On the hunt for a serial killer, Victoria is up against five dead bodies, a mountain of circumstantial evidence, and an angry boss breathing down her neck. Things become more complicated when, on a visit to her childhood home, she comes across one of Gus? old case files dating back more than 75 years. As she reads deeper into the file, she discovers an uncanny number of similarities between her case in Chicago and the gruesome killings in 1920s Prague...
?We are delighted to work again with Microids who masterfully crafted the Adventure Game of the Year, Syberia, and the successful Post Mortem,? said Robert Stevenson, V.P. Product Development and Acquisitions at The Adventure Company. ?Still Life is a fully involved experience, exploiting all of the mystery and macabre so sought after in entertainment today.? Still Life is a unique adventure which gives players an insider view into the world of a criminal investigator. While on the case, they will employ a variety of forensic devices and techniques and investigate intriguing characters in modern day Chicago and late 1920s Prague.
Still Life offers gamers: Two playable characters: Private Eye Gus McPherson and FBI Agent Victoria McPherson. Compelling storyline set in modern Chicago and late 1920s Prague Challenging puzzles finely integrated into the storyline Life-like, crime scene investigations of gruesome serial homicides Full-screen inventory offering an examine feature, with a zoom function, and a combine button to allow wider use of inventory items. Beautifully detailed environments and stunning cinematics, in the Microids tradition Web-Based mysteries to investigate before and after the launch! Still Life is rated ?M? for Mature, and is due for release in Spring 2005.
-Red Dawg, GameVortex Communications AKA Alex Redmann
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