3% isn't much to quibble over really.

gerrid wrote:
>
> There are definintely different endings and different sequences
> depending on what you do in certain situations. There's no way you'd
> see everything on one play through because at quite a few points
> throughout the game you have to make choices, and what you choose
> changes the rest of the game.

Ah, this is sounding much better than initial reports.

Hedfix wrote:
> Although if you don't cover your tracks
> I expect it's easier for you when playing the detectives (or they
> react differently/say different things): if so then that is rather
> cool.#

Depending on how you act, the detectives and the other people all react differently to you. The most interesting aspect is the relationship between one of the cops and his girlfriend, which you are free to destroy or let flourish, or leave somewhere in the middle depending how you act towards her. It's great.

> Yeah, I would have gotten it straight away if they'd had the game
> branch off into good/evil ways to go through situations especially if
> you could switch from evil to good (or vice-versa) paths a few times

There are definintely different endings and different sequences depending on what you do in certain situations. There's no way you'd see everything on one play through because at quite a few points throughout the game you have to make choices, and what you choose changes the rest of the game.

Hedfix wrote:
you HAVE to take the cab



Not being picky or anything but you can also take the subway... I did enjoy playing the scenario multiple times just to see what would happen as a result of different actions.

One thing that annoyed me though is that the cop always finds the dead guy, and this is because of the bloody trail from the floor into the toilet, what was to stop the character from cleaning up the trail as well as the bloody big splodge of blood where he killed the guy argh, but apart from the little things I thoroughly enjoyed the demo.

Tomm wrote:
> Yes but it's only the demo, i assume there are more ways to leave in
> the full game.

I bet there aren't.

> In a review I read about it, doing/not doing something
> in one scenario may effect what happens in another.

This could give it some replay value, but still at a game that takes around 6 hours to complete that's not that much. Could be enough though.

I think a lot of this might simply be how events/approaches affect a character's stress levels which are then passed on to the next scene/event that they're in. Although if you don't cover your tracks I expect it's easier for you when playing the detectives (or they react differently/say different things): if so then that is rather cool.

And since you play
> as both the criminal and detectives it gets quite interesting. Altho
> since the game will have to end in the same way, these things dont
> mean too much anyway...

Yeah, I would have gotten it straight away if they'd had the game branch off into good/evil ways to go through situations especially if you could switch from evil to good (or vice-versa) paths a few times through the game.

>
> You'd think in the standard point and clicks, Gabriel Knight, Monkey
> Island, the Dig and whatnot, that there wouldnt be any replay value,
> but i've played them loads of times.

I prefer how this title is presented. I tried playing a Myst game and one of the Fallout titles but they weren't my sort of thing.

Yes but it's only the demo, i assume there are more ways to leave in the full game. In a review I read about it, doing/not doing something in one scenario may effect what happens in another. And since you play as both the criminal and detectives it gets quite interesting. Altho since the game will have to end in the same way, these things dont mean too much anyway...

You'd think in the standard point and clicks, Gabriel Knight, Monkey Island, the Dig and whatnot, that there wouldnt be any replay value, but i've played them loads of times.

Tomm wrote:
> I'd play again
> just to see what could be done differently each time...

First time I played, I left the bathroom with blood on me. Instant death.

Second time, I cleaned up, hid the knife etc. The cop got up and I left the bathroom. As I was leaving the cafe, the waitress shouted I hadn't payed my bill. I got chased.

Last time, I did everything quickly, then left the bathroom and spoke to the npc's. Watched the tv etc. I left the cafe at the exact time the cop got up. It timed perfectly that as I was getting into the taxi, the cop was splitscreened saying "there has been a crime"

The plot is predetermined, but the events unfold differently. It got quite an illusion of freedom, and is quite skillfully "directed"

Hedfix wrote:
> Too short with almost no replay value.

Yeah, I think Day of the Tentacle is the only point and click I've played repeatedly.

Yeah, I played it. Looks good.

The point and click adventure is dead. Long like the point and click (but hidden under a very clever interface) adventure.

What a cool demo. I'm buying this.