![]() At the beginning of Under a KIlling Moon, Tex has married and divorced Sylvia Linsky, and has reached his personal nadir. The gameplay concentrates on puzzle solution within these interactive first person sequences this approach was adopted by all of the Tex Murphy games from this point on. While promoted as an "interactive movie", Under a Killing Moon actually alternates between non interactive filmed scenes which establish the characters and plot and real time sequences in which the player moves through a three-dimensional world using a first person view. With Under a Killing Moon ( 1994 AS, DOS) designed by Aaron Conners, Christopher Jones technology had improved to the point where Full Motion Video of human actors could be used. The first two Tex Murphy games were notable for their attempts to include realistic video and audio portrayals of their characters. Half set on Mars and half on Earth, the game combines puzzles based around logical problems with the conversation-based form of deductive reasoning used in Mean Streets. The game begins with a powerful businessman, who has become extremely wealthy as a result of his investments in Martian Terraforming, summoning Tex to his office to inform him that the tycoon's daughter is missing – and so is "something else". ![]() Martian Memorandum ( 1991 AS, DOS) designed by Brent Erickson, Christopher Jones is a more conventional graphical Adventure using a (somewhat clumsy) point and click interface, set six years later. While of largely historical value today, Mean Streets remains of interest for its unusual fusion of what later became largely separate game forms. The gameplay is a mixture of action game (including two-dimensional combat and sequences set in Tex's flying car) and puzzle solution the puzzles depend largely on the player's ability to combine fragments of information obtained by questioning, bribing and threatening a variety of characters. The player can eventually discover that he was working on a form of mind control, and shut down the project which is conducting the research. Tex is hired by Sylvia Linsky, a beautiful, mysterious woman, to investigate the suspicious death of her father. Mean Streets ( 1989 AS, Amiga, C64, DOS 1990 AtariST) designed by Brent Erickson, Brian Ferguson, Christopher Jones is the first game in the series. The tone is much influenced by Raymond Chandler's hard boiled detective fiction, though Tex Murphy is more knowing and less serious the games include frequent pop culture references, and are often gently self mocking. Tex, the player character, is one of the few unmutated "norms" living in the bad part of town, a kind man, but one whose kindness is informed by a certain world weary cynicism. The setting is a post- World War Three San Francisco, where the skies glow red with radiation and many of the inhabitants are down and out mutants. Tex Murphy is a series of graphical Adventure games featuring the eponymous twenty-first-century private detective. Designed by Aaron Conners, Brent Erickson, Christopher Jones.
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