Jack the Ripper

While writing a series of articles about horrible murders in the Low Side District of New York, the young reporter Jimmy Palmer will soon become involved in a game of cat and mouse with an illusive and deadly character - Jack the Ripper. Along Palmer's dark journey he will foster a friendship with a young singer, Abigail, the "Irish Nightingale," and meet numerous other colorful characters of this poor district.

Beginning with the search of witnesses to the crimes, Palmer's snooping will soon lead him to investigate suspects. His daily editorials trigger the interest of the serial killer himself, who begins to correspond with Palmer via the newspaper, leading Palmer to surmise that this killer is the infamous Jack the Ripper!

Features: - A thrilling experience with realistic and unforgettable characters and a compelling storyline - Virtools(r) engine allows for rich, beautiful and detailed graphics, and special effects, with a user friendly interface - A mass appeal theme based on true historical events - Exploration, inventory based gameplay, suspenseful storyline - Numerous puzzles of varying complexity - environmental, tactile, auditory

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Adventure Company Web Site

Jack The Ripper : 20 to 25 hours of thrilling adventure !

Jack The Ripper has been awarded “Best Adventure Game of E3 2003” by IGN PC !

Co-published by DreamCatcher, Wanadoo Edition and Galilea Production

Storyline

1. While writing a series of articles about horrible murders in the Low Side District of New York, the young reporter James Palmer will soon become involved in a game of cat and mouse with an illusive and deadly character - Jack the Ripper. Beginning with the search of witnesses to the crimes, Palmer's snooping will soon lead him to investigate suspects. Along Palmer's dark journey in the murder district, he will foster a friendship with a young singer, Abigail, the "Irish Nightingale," and meet numerous colorful characters. His daily editorials trigger the interest of the serial killer, who begins to correspond with him…

What's exciting

Jack the Ripper is innovating in the use and combination of the graphics, technology and various gameplay element with one aim : give a thrilling experience to the player. The great graphics with alternance of night and day life, the progressive immersion in the unfamiliar social environment of the poor district, the ever present threat of the killer, unexpected encounter with engaging characters will all drive the player into an adventure that – at least this is our aim and hope – he will hardly forget.

Interface

You can do almost everything with your mouse. Looking around, moving, interacting with characters, taking and giving items, accessing your map, everything has been streamlined so that you remain deeply immersed into the game. Basically, the user manual could read "Right Click to access your inventory, ESC to trigger the main menu, and for the rest, follow the cursors"

Technology

The adventure genre is focused on the player experience rather than the technological "wow", so the challenge lies in creating technologies allowing us to create immersive stories on an average computer. That's why we use Virtools middleware as a basis, on which we've added a specific technology codenamed "zCube" to integrate real-time 3D characters and items onto the 360° prerendered environments. Our goal is to retain the details and quality of prerendered graphics while adding much more interactivity, even on average computers.

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Galilea Web Site

THE ADVENTURE COMPANY SHIPS JACK THE RIPPER ON PC

Big Bad Jack Rips it Up at Retail

January 29, 2004 – The Adventure Company* today announced that it has shipped Jack the Ripper on PC-CD.

This compelling adventure is based on a young reporter, Jimmy Palmer, who is writing a story about a series of gruesome murders in the Low Side District of New York. He soon begins a dangerous dialogue with a mysterious character and his obsession with this dark relationship compels him to seek out the evil killer.

Palmer examines crime scenes, interviews potential suspects and fits clues together as he gradually tracks down Jack the Ripper himself. The question on everyone’s lips…..Has the world’s most infamous killer resurfaced in New York?

Jack the Ripper is based on true historical events and features a 360° view, real-time 3D characters, and ambient background effects. The game uses an enhanced Virtools® engine allowing for rich detailed graphics, and special effects, with a user-friendly point-and-click interface.

Adventure fans will need to stay focused on plot and solve a number of excellently crafted puzzles to eventually capture this ruthless killer.

Jack the Ripper is developed by Galiléa Production and has and ESRB of T for Teen.

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Adventure Company Press Release

Prepare Yourself For an Incredible Adventure...

Immerse yourself in an incredibly realistic 3D world of thrills and suspense.

Terror ruled the fog-covered streets of east London as Jack The Ripper committed murders of such a vicious nature, that people feared for their lives.

Who is this killer that seems to vanish in the mist of darkness? Rise to the challenge and let your instinct help you to solve the mystery.

Journey through a mysterious world with undercurrents of danger as you attempt to solve the mystery behind the world's most elusive serial killer.

• Intriguing and engrossing storyline
• Numerous interesting characters to interact with
• Inspired by a true story
• Challenging puzzles to solve
• Many interesting objects to search for, collect and use

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Back Cover - US release