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Murdered Soul Suspect Free Download GAMESPACK.NET Murdered: Soul Suspect’s first red herring comes five minutes in. As dead detective Ronan O’Connor, you are promised an enormous and exciting ghostly skillset with which to solve complex crimes, right wrongs, and gain unbridled access to the real-world town of Salem, Massachusetts. But by the time the credits roll, that promise has only been partially fulfilled. Being a ghost in Murdered is enjoyable in fits and starts, yet the use of your powers is brutally limited, resulting in an almost entirely scripted and therefore watered-down afterlife experience. Our hero Ronan is a roughly sketched amalgam of every anti-authority, lone-wolf detective popularised in film during the late ‘60s and early ‘70s; a gravel-voiced cliche under a fedora. Yet the mystery lying at his feet is more unusual than most, as Ronan has a series of bulletholes in his chest and his ‘unfinished business’ is to discover the identity of his own killer. It’s a powerful whodunnit set-up, which kept me invested – just – for the ten hours it took to reach the reveal, despite narrative shortcomings elsewhere. An insistent yet irrelevant sub-plot involving Ronan’s wife, for example, evokes a particularly clunky romance novella, while the thoughts of possessed citizens that Ronan is able to hear are oddly mundane.TOP/BEST ADULT VIDEO GAMES IN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (USA)

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The supporting cast fails to make an impression too, save for Joy, a spirited young medium – terrifically voiced by Entourage actress Cassidy Lehrmam – who deserves more screen-time. Similarly, Salem, with its rich real-life history, feels wasted as a setting. Murdered’s small sandbox, (truly the loosest use of that term), offers little variation in environment and restricts the player’s natural instinct to explore it at every turn. One of its more interesting features; a ghostly overlay of parts of the town during its most notorious years in the 1600s, is mostly used as an environmental trick to prevent you from going beyond the game world’s close confines. The explanation for this feels arbitrary: Ronan can’t pass through other ghostly matter because he’s a ghost, and he can’t access three quarters of the town’s buildings as they’ve been ‘consecrated’ by Salem’s citizens. The developer didn’t have time to make a bigger, more interesting world, in other words. Such limitations extend to your toolbox. While Ronan can, theoretically, do all the cool things you’d want a ghost detective to be able to do: walk through (some) walls, analyse the ghostly residue of a murder scene, interrogate other ghosts, possess humans and animals to influence them and read their thoughts.

A twisting storyline supported by a great cast of characters constantly raises questions over the secrets that Salem hides.

And move objects about like a poltergeist – you’ll rarely find any use for his abilities outside of the tightly scripted story which you’re funneled through. This is particularly frustrating considering Ronan’s investigations in Murdered require very little actual brain work. The business of solving puzzles, which boils down to ‘analysis’ of a crime scene by either collecting every clue using your ghost skills and selecting the most relevant one, or linking together a series of clues to form a cohesive timeline of events, equates to meaningless busywork as the solution is more often than not blindingly obvious from the get-go. The ability to scrutinise the ghostly residue of a dramatic memory captured in a three-dimensional still – the killer searching for a victim, for example, or a cowering victim sobbing in terror – is perhaps the most ridiculously simplistic in Ronan’s investigatory repertoire. It’s hard to feel the developer is taking us seriously when our multiple-choice descriptors of someone pleading for their life are words like Scared, In Charge, Calm, Tense or Confident. For a game centered on a murder mystery, it’s baffling that Murdered is devoid of any real, challenging sleuthing.Asfalia: Anger

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When the answers aren’t so obvious – and generally this is when the task at hand, not the solution, is obtuse – there seems to be no consequence for failure. Even when you don’t guess the most relevant clue on your first attempt, there is no option but to get to the answer eventually through process of elimination. While you are rated on your ‘detective work’ on a case by case basis, the judgement seems meaningless; no branching storylines are shut off from you for screwing up, and there is no overall rank offered at the end to make you want to try again and do better. Enemy encounters, which are few and far between, offer more room for freedom and tactical thinking. The only way to dispose of Murdered’s genuinely frightening soul-sucking demons is to get immediately behind them, and the only way to get immediately behind them is to hide in the residue of individual ghost souls, which are tightly packed together and therefore create a sort of teleportation system for Ronan. It’s a neat, fun idea, and one that is bizarrely underutilised and unexplored for a game trying to sell an atmosphere of danger. I’m over halfway through Murdered: Soul Suspect when I realise something: I’ve not shot or punched anyone during the whole time I’ve been playing.

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Nor, it turns out, will I shoot or punch anyone for the remainder of the game. It’s a testament to the game’s peculiar strengths that it manages to feel like an action game while cleverly distracting you from the fact you’re not actually getting much action. The reason is pretty simple. Ghosts can’t pick up guns and their fists tend to float right through whatever they try to hit, and since you’re a ghost – the ghost of detective Ronan O’Connor, killed while investigating a serial murderer known as The Bell Killer – this can’t help but restrict your options when it comes to violence. You rely instead on brains, as you try to solve the mystery of your own murder so that you can find peace and be reunited with your dead wife in the comforting glow of The Other Side. This you do by using your ghost powers – and, yes, one of the characters explains them to you using that very term – to poke around crime scenes and read the minds of other characters. It’s an adventure game, basically, right down to the often frustrating hunt for clues. This makes up a good chunk of the gameplay and tasks you with finding a certain number of bits of info by exploring a tightly defined location, examining everything. Moving the story forwards requires you to find and identify the most relevant clues.Beneath the Mountain

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It’s not the most graceful representation of the detective’s art, but it is a more compelling take on the genre than the rummage sale of irrelevant detritus that typified LA Noire. You don’t even need to find every clue, provided you can use what you do know to pick out the right key words. A lot depends on your willingness to play along, to act the great detective – but when that runs dry, a little bit of guess work generally gets the job done, since there’s no meaningful penalty for making mistakes (unless you care about the half-hearted scoring system which ranks each puzzle out of three). When you’re not poking around looking for clues, you’re trotting around a sort-of open-world version of Salem, Massachusetts. As a ghost, you can only enter buildings that have been left open – a door, a window – and there are also overlapping spirit world elements of the town that are as solid to Ronan as the “real” world elements are intangible. It’s a nice effect – as pedestrians casually stroll about their business, unaware of the spectral locomotive running through the street – but it’s pretty clearly just an elaborate in-fiction way to keep you contained and navigating, rather than walking through every wall to get to where you’re going. Even more blatant are the toxic patches of ectoplasmic goop, which exist for no other reason than to prevent Ronan from taking certain paths.

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There is a narrative explanation for this, late in the game, but its origin as a signposting tool is barely concealed. Other gameplay elements include sequences in which Ronan must guide his reluctant sidekick – a sarcastic teen medium, ironically called Joy – through guarded locations, using your invisible presence and poltergeist distractions to clear the way, just as she uses her ability to, you know, actually touch stuff to help you out. It’s the sort of guided escort mission that could be horrendous, but it’s incredibly forgiving and the sparky banter between Ronan and Joy makes them more entertaining than the slender gameplay would otherwise be. Less enjoyable are the bits where you’re suddenly faced with demons. These floating Dementor-esque phantoms will suddenly infest the world, usually when you’re on your way into or out of a location and the game needs to give you something to do along the way. If they see you, they’ll screech and home in, sucking your soul and killing you a second time. The only way to avoid them is to hide in stationary remnants of other spirits, which you can teleport between. Sneak up on a demon and you can turn the tables, exorcising it by yanking its spirit out with a simple button-and-direction-matching input.

It’s a crude version of stealth, and also the closest Soul Suspect ever comes to direct violent action. These encounters mark the game’s low point, by a considerable margin, and it’s while constantly failing and restarting these simple yet infuriating gauntlets that you’ll come closest to switching off and giving up. I’ll confess, I did that more than once. But I always came back, a few minutes later. Partly, yes, because it’s my job, but also because I was honestly enjoying Soul Suspect’s flawed, clumsy charms. Boiled down to the basics, the gameplay is fairly flat and limiting. You jog to a location, find clues, solve a riddle, dodge demons and then repeat the whole process again. Possessing other characters is never as interesting as it sounds, mostly just triggering the same two irrelevant soundbites, and the puzzles never really strive to develop their systems beyond the basics. There’s no map, which makes navigation around the confusing streets a bit of a pain, and waypoints to your objective are sometimes used, sometimes not. For most of the second half of the game, it kept telling me to “Exit the attic” – a simple task I’d completed hours earlier. The visuals are OK, but look more like they belong at the start of the previous console generation. Flickers and glitches are commonplace. Soul Suspect gets a lot wrong, quite frankly.

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Murdered: Soul Suspect is a supernatural detective thriller which challenges players to solve possibly the hardest case of all… their own murder. When Ronan O’Connor, a detective with a chequered past, gets caught up in a violent burglary, his life is brought to an untimely end by a brutal and relentless killer. Shocked to find himself in the afterlife, his only escape from the limbo world of ‘Dusk’ is to uncover the truth behind his killer, track him down and bring him to justice using his detective instinct and new-found supernatural abilities. As Ronan, you have the freedom to explore the modern-day town of Salem: its New England-style wooden houses, narrow streets, gothic churches and mental asylum for clues. Battle demonic spirits to save your soul and uncover the shocking revelations about who is responsible for your death. Explore the world of the living and dead in Salem, a brooding city with deep-rooted ties to the supernatural and mysterious. Move freely from one haunting location to the next and even if you have completed your investigation, return to previous scenes to follow new leads. Investigate your murder using supernatural skills; possess people to read their minds, influence their thoughts, or see and hear what they know. Follow leads by walking-through walls and teleporting. Discover new information by revealing memories hidden in the Dusk or interrogating the dead. Use poltergeist skills to create distractions and learn further clues.POWER CHORD

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