I first played the scoop as a little kid. This game was so fun. It was really hard to beat. You are a newspaper reporter in England for a paper called the daily courier. You have to solve a double murder, one of a girl name Geraldine Tracey and another of Andrew Johnson who was a newspaper reporter for a rival newspaper company named the daily star.
You have to take taxies and ride buses to about 20 different locations and talk to a large cast of characters.
I first played the scoop as a little kid. This game was so fun. It was really hard to beat. You are a newspaper reporter in England for a paper called the daily courier. You have to solve a double murder, one of a girl name Geraldine Tracey and another of Andrew Johnson who was a newspaper reporter for a rival newspaper company named the daily star.
You have to take taxies and ride buses to about 20 different locations and talk to a large cast of characters. It took me about 50 tries to beat this game. I was addicted and played it on and off for years. It was a really fun game. The graphics are from 1988 so nothing flashy. The backgrounds are in
black and white (mostly) and the characters are in colour. It’s actually neat.
You select your actions from a menu. They consist of talk, look, search, observe, take, drop, wait, and taxi. When you talk to people you can ask them questions like where were you on Saturday night, and tell me what you know about this person. There are even a couple side plots other than the murders. If you are looking for a really good adventure than I would definitely recommend the scoop.
The game play is really good. The storyline is long and well done. I had so much fun playing this game and I have never been able to find another one quite like it. It reminds me of those old sierra games. Your character walks around and goes to the next location be going to the end of the screen. There are so many different items to find, places to go, and people to talk to that the scoop will never be boring. If you are in the right place at the right time you can listen to conversations between the other characters. If you ask the right questions you can get characters to do certain things. You have a specific amount of time (4 days game time in fact) to solve the murders before you get scooped by the other paper.
The only downside to the scoop is that there is very little sound. There are some sounds that are kind of random. For example, the taxi makes a screech when it picks you up. There are little sounds when you switch questions and when you walk. This game would be one of the greatest games ever if the different people actually said their lines instead of you having to read them. However, in 1988 when this game was made they could not have done anything like that.
