So just got this as it was included in a bundle with some other games I wanted, and actually am pleasantly surprised by it so far. The easiest way I could sum it up is a FMV LA Noire with more actual investigating and less obscenely screaming at witnesses for no reason at all. In it you play a detective investigation the death of a woman, attempting to discover if it was murder or death by misadventure (the legal term for "got drunk and crashed her car into a lake"), and presumably once you determine it is murder (it wouldn't be a very interesting mystery if it was death by drunk driving), solving it.
Much like LA Noire you do this by interviewing witnesses and persons of interest and figuring out what they say that doesn't match what you know. Much like LA Noire as well, the fact that they are using actors and not scratch-built CGI modeled people helps as you also need to read facial ticks, although going the FMV route instead of the weird face mapping of LA means that they can be much more expressive and have more subtle ticks since they aren't sitting lock stock still.
Anyway that's all I can get into without spoiler territory so I'll leave it at that.
[spoilers=Early game Spoilers]I am getting the feeling though that all this business with Atlas is a massive red herring. It just seems a bit too convenient for that to be the thing that's the linchpin.[/spoilers]
Much like LA Noire you do this by interviewing witnesses and persons of interest and figuring out what they say that doesn't match what you know. Much like LA Noire as well, the fact that they are using actors and not scratch-built CGI modeled people helps as you also need to read facial ticks, although going the FMV route instead of the weird face mapping of LA means that they can be much more expressive and have more subtle ticks since they aren't sitting lock stock still.
Anyway that's all I can get into without spoiler territory so I'll leave it at that.
[spoilers=Early game Spoilers]I am getting the feeling though that all this business with Atlas is a massive red herring. It just seems a bit too convenient for that to be the thing that's the linchpin.[/spoilers]
