The year is 2044, and the world has become a globalized, industrialized place where online communication often replaces other forms of socializing and where each citizen can be easily found with tracking devices. Peter Wright is an employee in a New York advertising agency whose family was killed in a terrorist attack. One night he witnesses his neighbor being taken away by a SWAT team. The neighbor's wife asks Peter to find out what happened to her husband, and Peter begins to realize that the authorities are following an unknown agenda he must reveal at all costs.

The Moment of Silence is a traditional puzzle-solving adventure game. The player navigates the protagonist through pre-rendered locations with frequently changing, fixed camera angles. Most of the puzzles either involve gathering information by talking to characters and exploring dialogue trees, or manipulating inventory items and using them on objects in the scenery.

[edit description | view history]

Alternate Titles

"寂静时刻" -- Chinese spelling (simplified)
"Момент Истины" -- Russian spelling
"MoS" -- Common abbreviation

[add alternate title]

Part of the Following Groups

Merchant	Title	Platform	Price
	Moment Of Silence	Windows	$3.80
	The Moment of Silence
Please select your country: Not an American user?

User Reviews

Has good moments... but overall not very satisfying	YID YANG (162355)
Inadequate path finding tarnishes an otherwise good game	Jeanne (75620)
For a newer adventure game, AMAZING!	matt cohen (12)

[review game]

The Press Says

PC Games (Germany)	Oct 13, 2004	81 out of 100	81
Adventurespiele	Jun 05, 2005		80
PC Gameplay (Benelux)	Dec, 2004	80 out of 100	80
Adventure Europe	Apr 29, 2005	80 out of 100	80
Adventure Gamers	Nov 11, 2004		80
ActionTrip	Mar 16, 2005	78 out of 100	78
GameZone	Mar 21, 2005	7.4 out of 10	74
Gameguru Mania	May 26, 2005	68 out of 100	68
GameSpy	Mar 16, 2005		60
Worth Playing	Mar 31, 2005	5.5 out of 10	55

[see more rankings | add ranking]

Forums

There are currently no topics for this game.

[new thread]

Trivia

The game was obviously influenced by George Orwell's famous novel "1984". Beside the similarity in stories, there are also direct references. One of them is the password for Oswald's computer (this is not a spoiler, since you don't have to remember this password and it is used automatically in a cut scene): the password is "doublethink", one of the cardinal aspects of the future "Ingsoc" society as depicted in Orwell's book.

[more trivia | add trivia]

This entry to the MobyGames database was contributed by Jeanne

(75620) on Dec 01, 2004.