Agatha Christie: Evil Under The Sun
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Video Game Reviews of Agatha Christie: Evil Under The Sun
Customer Review: evil under the sun pc game
Summary: 1 Stars
Can't review game because my computer graphics aren't strong enough to play the game, which looked like it would have been fun. Customer Review: read all reviews before purchase
Summary: 1 Stars
I knew something was drastically wrong when I found the master key for the hotel rooms before I finished Act 3. It was dangling from the hallway ceiling near Linda's Room. After that, I uninstalled the game and called it quits.
I wish that I could have played this game for more than 7 minutes without my computer rebooting with an error message. A white screen would have been welcome.
Contrary to other reviewers, having an excellent driver or an excellent graphics card did nothing to help me.
I am very disappointed. I own both of the earlier games for PC (Murder on the Orient Express, And Then There Were None) and never experienced a problem this severe with either of them.
Caveat Emptor!!!
Additional note. I gave this game to a friend at work. She took Mr.Anderson's advice and downloaded the "patch" for the game and was so pleased with the patch's ability to stave off the white screen and reboots that the game is currently in a landfill somewhere in PA.
Customer Review: A patch that works
Summary: 1 Stars
I previously gave this game low marks for the whiteout issue . . . I truly don't feel the general game specifications on the box precluded using the game on a computer with an integrated graphics chipset. Anyway, I recently downloaded the patch from the manufacturer's website (beware: they don't exactly identify what the patch is supposed to fix), and I'm happy to say I never had another whiteout, even with my "basic" computer. It's a good game, too. I do feel that Poirot spends a little too much time walking (it would be so much better if you could click on an island map to get him to a different location), but, overall, they capture the feeling of the book, gave the gamer some good puzzles to solve, and offered up some lovely visuals and music. Lots of fun and I'll play it again. Sorry I'm unable to upgrade the amount of stars for this review!Customer Review: Wicked, not Evil
Summary: 5 Stars
Evil under the sun
Having played the previous two games in this series by the Adventure Company, I looked forward my third instalment of murder mystery.
They did not let me down, but first I had a problem with the graphics. It turned out that the game spec requires DirectX 9 & 64 Mb graphic memory. This is the exact same spec required for the second instalment which played fine on my computer. It seems the previous game didn't really require this but this game does. So I bought a graphics card, an FX5200, which is the lowest spec (and cheapest - roughly the cost of one game) card which has DirectX 9 and 64 or more Mb graphic memory and is an AGP card. I got 256 Mb but there are 64Mb cards and 128 Mb versions which would enable playing of this game. The symptom of the problem is a loss of background image leaving a white screen [blizzard conditions!] which makes the game unplayable. Exchanging the card is easy and should take no more than a few minutes. For the record, my old card was an Nvidea MX/MX400 which supports DirectX 7 and has 32 Mb graphic memory. If your computer has PCI then there are many more cards to choose from.
Once the technical aspects were settled, I played the game.
The story is a complicated one. It is more involved than the previous games in the series. I'd not read the book, so this was new to me. You play as Hastings, Poirot's friend, following in his footsteps. This is a novel device to have Poirot knowing all the outcomes and thus able to advise the player. The avatar on screen has Poirot's body and voice. This gave the developers opportunity to inject some humour which I much appreciated. The game is in chapters, seven in all. The end of each chapter is marked by the player being whisked to Poirot's office and some advice given by him. An innovation is "the finger of suspicion" which serves as a hint system as well as an extra puzzle. Initially I was wary of this but soon came to value its efficiency particularly at the end of chapters where there is usually one last action to trigger the chapter end, but nothing suggests itself. Much time was saved by consulting "the finger of suspicion".
The graphics are good, the acting fine. In the final chapter Poirot outlines his case, with prompts from the player. I had my suspicions, but didn't work out who the murder was.
I enjoyed the game. The scenario was memorable. Puzzles are perhaps on the easy side, but the game is none the worse for that. This is definitely a 20 hours plus game, unless you make repeated use of the hint system.
This is the best of the three games in the series. I recommend it. Just make sure your graphics set up is capable.
Customer Review: Christie fans will enjoy
Summary: 4 Stars
This is the second AC game I've played in the series. I thought overall, it was more enjoyable than Murder on the Orient Express. What I liked about EUTS is that you don't seem to spend as much time doing silly things that don't relate to the story (although you still have to do some.) Another helpful feature is that you have a list of tasks to complete during the scene; i.e. "Read article about Miss Porter's School" and "Help Linda build a blind for birds." I felt like with MOTOE you could wander around helplessly lost for hours. As with the other AC games, you still collect items and use combinations of them to help you on your way--but what's great about EUTS is that you can tell if something is a combination by just hovering over the second tool, you don't have to click on each combo and hear the annoying "I don't think that's a good idea" speech 20 times.
The graphics are beautiful, and the voices aren't bad (although Christine Redfern is a bit annoying and I miss David Suchet as Poirot.) On the flip side, unless you save your current game frequently, you might have to repeat your moves because there are quite a few system crashes that you'll experience.
Overall, I think if you are a fan of AC and Poirot, you will enjoy the game despite the glitches. The games seem to be as addicting as the books are to read; I just hope we don't have to wait a year inbetween releases!