Dark Side of the Moon

The Good
One of the nice things about this game is the character interaction. You have dialogue trees and inventory swaping that seems logical and contributes to the story. The puzzles are somewhat logical and fit in the story. The story is a fairly good murder mystery with a SciFi setting. Some of the of the acting is fairly good.

The Bad
The graphics were tiny and bland. All gameplay occurs in a frame roughly 1/4 the size of the monitor. The FMV sequences were somewhat washed out because of their green-screen projection on game backgrounds. Lots of back and forth work just to make progress. Lack of configuration options. Lots of disc swapping makes the game almost unplayable.

The Bottom Line
Ok if you play the DVD rom version. Not so ok if you play the cd-rom version.

The Good
Aside from the very prologue and at first sight interesting opening to a story, nothing else is worthwile mentioning as a do-gooder.

The Bad
So, you start the story with a stunning graphics and expect at least an interesting sci-fi adventure, if not great. Instead, you get shrinked experience to some 30% of the full screen with highly bad controls with no help whatsoever, and no reason for you to wanting to continue playing any further. But why did I finish this game... alas, probably 'cos I developed hope in games no matter the odds.

The story completely renders useless as you move towards the ending, and even though it does possess certain points of interest, it is not well executed if I do say so myself. Not only that, but there are many things you cannot even identify, 'cos mind it, this is an SF game with lots of weird looking objects, yet your mouse cursor doesn't help you write what it is you're mouse-overing. Dialogues are nothing that smart, and you don't get to talk much either. They just thought that having live actors and a game with pre-rendered background where you can rotate will be cool. Not quite, it's pretty useless and makes it even more dull if it doesn't connect to the story whatsoever, not to mention lousy controls.

If you're really not interested as to how a completely flawed adventure game looks like and mind constant disc swapping, stay away from this grim experiment and pray that it doesn't repeat. It is sad that such a game with promising potential screwed up itself.

The Bottom Line
Just say no to it, and you won't see a reason why being a play-tester isn't always the best job in the world.