Hell: A Cyberpunk Thriller

The Good
This game was an honest attempt to create a stylistic cyberpunk adventure game. The title screen is very cool and sets the atmosphere. You get to play one of the two main characters. They are ex cops who are on the run from their own agency. The government is a theo-technocratic organization that strictly enforces its own doctrine of rules. You use your contacts you made as a cop to progress in the game.

At the time, the graphics were decent. The story is told through a variety of partial screen FMV movies. The game play consisted of moving and using your character through a 2d background. Lot of the voice acting was fairly decent. Dennis Hopper performed well but the stiff render of him stole from his performance. Lots of interesting and strange dialogue trees to play with.

The Bad
The dorky music. Played through a standard FM synth sound card, you will find yourself quickly turning it off in the main menu. The game ends up to be a series of 'fed-ex' missions, going to one part of town to the next.

Getting it to work is a big challenge. One must master dos configuration to get it to play acceptably. If you run it under windows, make sure to have windows 9x and a pentium II.

The Bottom Line
An old school FMV adventure with some cool twists. Some very interesting production values and unique character interaction. Definitely PG-13.