Name the game - part 4

[Guynemer]

Yay! I'm a winner!

[Guynemer]

Okay... early 90's, appeared on the PC and Amiga, I believe.

You are a private dick hired to investigate the death of a young woman...

[Standup]

Under a killing moon ? Although i think thats more mid 90s.

[GhengisFarbâ„¢]

Killed until Dead? or was that Murder by Death. Anyway my guess is something like that.

[Guynemer]

Nyet.

#2: the young woman in question is the daughter of the mayor, apparently killed by a designer drug.

[GhengisFarbâ„¢]

Sounds like a Japanese anime style story.

[Guynemer]

Nyet.

#3: you can win this futuristic adventure game with or without saving the lives of your lady love or your chief informant.

[Buck Birdseed]

The only futuristic adventure games I can readily think of are the Space Quest series and Beneath a Steel Sky, neither of which this is.

[Hueij]

Tex Murphy, Martian Memorandum.

The girl turns out not to be dead though

[Hueij]

No. not Tex Murphhy

Black Dahlia perhaps? (just a guess...)

[Guynemer]

Nope.

#4: this dystopian film noir adventure game, reminiscent of Blade Runner, had a very comic book feel to it; things unfolded from a first-person perspective, but there was almost no actual movement--you chose where you wanted to go or who you wanted to talk to, and it happened. There was very little in the way of animation, save for a handful of action sequences, including a side-scrolling shooter that ended the game.

[Buck Birdseed]

A Myst Clone eh?

Not my strong point at all. In fact, I can't think of any save the usual fantasy/horror suspects, plus any amount of bad FMV games.

[Guynemer]

Nope. Out long before Myst, but you have the right general idea on how the interface worked. Out before other comic book-esque film noir adventures as well, i.e. Gabriel Knight. No FMV either. Not really fantasy, or horror for that matter. In my opinion, underappreciated and underplayed at the time of release, but became hugely influential.


#5: those who died from the designer drug in question did so in horrible (though brief) agony, their bodies mutating, gaining distinctly reptilian qualities.

[duke o' york]

Rise of the Dragon

Was quite popular, but I thought that it was rubbish. Oh well, no accounting for taste. Maybe it was better on PC....

[Guynemer]

Give the man a gold star!