I rarely give a game all 10s. The review for this game is way, way off base. This was the first Tex Murphy game I played. I actually rented the game first from a place that rented PC games (before CD-Rs and RWs became common), and beat it. I liked it enough that I actually bought the game. For the time, the graphics were awesome. Acutual 3D games were rare, but in this game you can actually crouch down and crawl under things, for instance. There's one part in the game where you have to crouch down and look up under a table. The environments are 3D, but the characters are sprites, which means they face you all the time. But it really isn't a big deal. The story is also very good, and the voice acting is top notch. Getting the game to run on anything but DOS is quite a trick, though. But it is possible, as there are workarounds. To find them, you can visit the Unofficial Tex Murphy site. Just look for it on Google.
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