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Rate Access Adventure Games

I think it is time we rate all the Access Adventure games from 1st to last with a grade attached to each in brackets as follows:

1. TEX MURPHY - UNDER A KILLING MOON (A+)
2. TEX MURPHY - PANDORA DIRECTIVE (A)
3. TEX MURPHY - MEAN STREETS (A-)
4. TEX MURPHY - OVERSEER (B+)
5. AMAZON - GUARDIANS OF EDEN (B)
6. TEX MURPHY - MARTIAN MEMORANDUM (B-)
7. COUNTDOWN (C+)

Anyone else?

Dr. David
I've only played two of them. So...

The Pandora Directive - A
Overseer - D (dvd version gets a C rating due to the lack of abnormal disc swapping the cd version had)
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PD A+

UAKM A

TMO A
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I agree with Jim.
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PD A+
UAKM A
TMO C-
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Pandora A+
UAKM B+
TMO B (would be an A if it had a Chandler Avenue)
Pandora A+
Overseer A
UAKM B

I wonder, why so many people rate Overseer so low; I think it was a great game and had a much better story and actors compared to UAKM.
Wintermute wrote:Pandora A+
Overseer A
UAKM B

I wonder, why so many people rate Overseer so low; I think it was a great game and had a much better story and actors compared to UAKM.
Can't speak for everyone but for me it was old hat. It was a remake of Mean Streets, and the changes they made were not that good. It wasn't a bad game but I thought the engine was actually inferior to the previous engines, too many bugs, and a plot that I had seen before in the original. Otherwise I liked it, but I would have preferred something new and less buggy.
Andy wrote:I agree with Jim.
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As you like to say sometimes Jim - Ditto.

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Overseer - A

Pandora - A+

UAKM - B

(Oh yeah, and the reason UAKM gets the low score? Still a very good game, but the acting is horribly cheesy. I mean to my standards anyway. PD blew it out of the water in that category. Graphics were ehhh ... and when the video was playing one of the people would freeze while the other one talked. I, however, played UAKM AFTER Pandora, which may be the reason for my criticism. )
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UAKM - B+ (would have got an A except it was too short)

Pandora Directive - A++ (Just stunning, one of the best games ever made)

Overseer - Haven't played yet

Martian Memorandum - C

Mean Streets - D (due to lame Speeder simulator causing travel to take ages)
I think I agree with JTOG. PD is still one of the best games I have ever played.
Uander a Killing Moon – A
The Pandora Directive – A+
Tex Murphy Overseer – B

In agreeance with others, the Pandora directive was (and still is) the most engaging game I have ever played.

Under a Killing Moon holds a special place with me too, being the first game I played on PC, not to mention one of the best as well... it kind of sets an extremely high standard when you base other games of UAKM (being the first one and all).

Overseer was great... the only thing that gives it a B is the technicalities, and video quality of the CD version. I preferred the video quality of PD to the CD version of Overseer... and using the 'Smacker' codec was a terrible descision. While the DVD version looked great, it was too much effort (at least, more than it shoul've been) to get it working. But aside from that, a well rounded game indeed.

-Cub. =o)
I love the way Amazon and Countdown fell right off the list after the start of the thread...