Crime City is a standard point and click style action adventure game released by Impressions in the early nineties. There are also some elements of micromanagement and strategy, as well as some arcade style games within the game. The theme for this adventure revolves around the classic detective whodunit subject.
In Crime City, the user plays the role of detective novelist, Mr. Steven White. While Mr. White is not a bad author and does not greatly dislike his work, he longs for the adventures that would come with being a real private investigator and has always wanted to try his had at that career.
Crime City is a standard point and click style action adventure game released by Impressions in the early nineties. There are also some elements of micromanagement and strategy, as well as some arcade style games within the game. The theme for this adventure revolves around the classic detective whodunit subject.
In Crime City, the user plays the role of detective novelist, Mr. Steven White. While Mr. White is not a bad author and does not greatly dislike his work, he longs for the adventures that would come with being a real private investigator and has always wanted to try his had at that career. He gets his chance when his father, Henry White, is arrested for allegedly murdering his business partner, and the hero has to prove the police wrong
by finding the real killer.
And so the adventure begins. There are interviews and interrogations, theories and notes. White must gather clues by traveling around town to different venues and by speaking with possible suspects. Unfortunately, it appears that everyone has a motive, regardless of how innocent White thought they were. Crime City stands above other point and click adventures because of its strategic elements and real time management. Time of day plays a part in this tale, as it would in real life. People say and do different things at night than they do during the day, and White also gets tired if he is not allowed to rest and carries on his investigation into the night. He also needs money to travel to all of the areas he must investigate, and unlike other adventure games, he can’t just pick it out of convenient vase that was sitting in the library. He must earn it by playing the stock market and so forth. Steven manages most everything from office computer, which also features the game within the game.
Also, unlike other point and clicks, there is no inventory icon that will allow the user to see what is being carried. There is no inventory to contend with at all. If Steven finds something pertinent, it automatically becomes part of the plot, and a previously interviewed person may say something different as a reaction to the new item. There isn’t anything to really DO with the inventory. This takes away some of the illogical guess work that everyone complains about in point and click adventures.
Overall, Crime City is not a bad game at all. It isn’t a real thriller, but some of its hybrid features make it very interesting and different from other games of this nature and theme. In short, it is well worth a download, and could provide hours of clean fun.
