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Dark and Seedy Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 24, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game actually made some horror game lists - and for good reason. It's quite dark and scary. If you are interested in an adventure game that has a good story, some easy puzzles and solid voice acting at a good price this is your game.

The graphics in this game are functional and seedy with some nice rendered backgrounds and characters. The story line along with "puzzles" that fit into the story are quite good actually.

I myself usually play 3rd person adventure games but this game is on my top 10 best games along with ganes like Syberia and The Longest Journey.

The puzzles are very basic and easy to solve without using a walkthrough which was a real plus for me.

In my opinion, this game is what all adventure games should be - a great interactive story. I can recall not too long ago paying $59.99 for games exactly like this one - this game is a real bargin.

Not quite what I expected . . .

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 24, 2007
Author: Amazon User

For a while, I've been really interested in Jack the Ripper (and as Silkner says in this game "And serial killers in general"), but this just isn't as exciting as the actual murder cases. The slaughterhouse part was really creepy, though. Your boss in this game, Bur, really would've made a great killer, because you can just tell that he only cares about his job, and wants to see if The Daily to find a story as good as that. However, his face just doesn't match the actual Ripper's face. [..]But, then again, neither does it match in this game.

I beg to differ on the horrible reviews

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: December 11, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Okay, so I admit that I am not the most PC game savvy and for this reason, I enjoyed this game. It is very similar to Post Mortem and Still Life (not surprising, as they are made by the same company). Yes, it is tedious and repetitive, but it is simple, puzzles are easy, the story is linear, you can't really screw up, and I appreciate this in a game! The graphics are pretty cool, as is the music.

I play adventure games to pretend I am really there, in the game, trying to figure out the mystery. I don't need shoot-em-ups or puzzles that take me all day to figure out. If you're like me, you'll probably enjoy this game. You just need to go into it knowing that you are not looking at an Oscar-caliber experience. Take it for what it's worth and you may just have some fun! :)

The Adventure Company Drops the Ball

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: June 11, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The Adventure Company has a knack for taking high concepts and making them into terrible games. Take for example "The Mystery of the Mummy", a Sherlock Holmes mystery game that made the world's most famous detective seem insipid. As lousy as some of their attempts have been in the past, high concepts keep players coming back to The Adventure Company. "Jack the Ripper" has a concept so ideal it seems impossible to ruin, and yet the game is phenomenally atrocious.

The game is set in New York City in 1901. A couple of poverty-stricken showgirls have been murdered in a fashion similar to the Jack the Ripper killings of 1888. Jimmy Palmer, a nave young reporter, is assigned by his editor to write a series of newspaper articles on the killings. As Jimmy looks into the murders, he discovers that the same serial killer might be responsible for both the 1888 and 1901 murders. There's the high concept. The game play is from the first-person perspective of Jimmy from beginning to end. It consists of returning to the same locations and talking to the same people repeatedly, using dialogue options that aren't really all that optional. Occasionally, Jimmy can collect items such as keys and money to appease stubborn suspects. There are only one or two actual puzzles in the entire game.

The game parades many characters based loosely on actual suspects in the real-life Jack the Ripper murders, but Jimmy never seems to come any closer to solving the mystery. A game called "Jack the Ripper" should at least guarantee a creepy ambience, and the game seems to succeed in that area initially, but it soon becomes apparent that ambience isn't enough. Menacing footsteps when no one is following you, whispered dialogue that is unintelligible and unimportant to the storyline, and shady characters that can't be interacted with and don't contribute anything to the plot become annoying after a short while. In one room, a hushed, secretive whisper resembling "I can sell you the most beautiful radishes" can be heard repeatedly. Dark, blood-stained alleys lose their creepiness after a while. The score is beautiful and unnerving, but it only adds to the misleading feeling that something frightening is going to happen, and it hardly ever does. There are also several moments in the game where Jimmy appears to have a psychic connection with a raven, leading to trippy graphic sequence with no pay-off.

Many critics have noted the series of Irish folk tunes performed by one of the game's characters as a bright spot. The songs themselves are beautiful and haunting, like the game's score, but the animated performances that accompany them are less varied and more mechanical than a floorshow at Chuck E. Cheese's. Also, be warned that there isn't a twist ending, just an anticlimactic one. Maybe someday still The Adventure Company will redeem itself. In the meantime, avoid this game.

Dead End

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: January 12, 2006
Author: Amazon User

At the beginning of this game you feel like you're really going to solve a mystery but in places it gets really tedious and leaves a cliff hanger at the end. I don't recommend this game, save your money for something like Syberia or Tomb Raider.

What a let down

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: November 16, 2004
Author: Amazon User

The music was good. That is all I can find good to say about this game. The ending was very disappointing to me. What a let down. The game play itself was boring and dragged on .

Don't even bother....

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 9 / 9
Date: October 02, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is one of the worst games I have ever played. First of all, I like games that make you think. This game is completely predictable. If you don't figure out something right away--you won't have to worry. Your cursor will figure it out for you. There are only a few logic puzzles, and even those are too easy. And if you like visiting the same locations over and over in a game, then this one's for you. I give it a 1 out of 10.

Hope you like to repeat yourself..

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: September 05, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Since other reviews touched on gameplay and it's graphics, I just want to say this...

1. Sure, your surroundings are a pretty picture.. but I like games that are interactive. I want to go through drawers, look closer at pictures.. do something besides run around busy rooms that you can do nothing but run through.

2. The plot is weak. I won't spoil the story-line, but each in game day you pretty much go to the same places, talking to the same people. You have to meet certain requirements to make the game progress, and non of it is interesting.

The one thing I did like about the game, there are a couple real nice songs you can listen to while you play, or just wait in one of the bars and listen.

Unfortunately, I got this as a present for my mom, thinking it would be a puzzle game and be creepy. Buzz, wrong!

Fun, but wish I'd bought it used

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: August 28, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I enjoyed this game while I was playing it, even though it does constrict your movements some, as has been mentioned in other reviews. I thought the graphics were good, and had no problem playing it on a 2 yr old laptop (didn't need to upgrade anything.) My 11 yr old daughter sat next to me most of the time I played, and she enjoyed watching it (and it wasn't too graphic for her.) We both have the same complaint, though... the ending was lame, and came too soon (after only 12 days, game time.)

I bought this brand-new less than a week ago and am now ready to sell it, because it is not one to play over and over again, discovering new things each time. It was fun to play, once, and because of that I wish I'd bought it used!

Jack the Ripper: fun to play but leaves room for improvement

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 27, 2004
Author: Amazon User

In Jack the Ripper you take on the role of a writer for the New York Today newspaper. When a series of killings begins in the Lowside district of New York, it's up to you to unmask the killer...
Sounds great huh? Well basically it is on some levels. For instance, I'm not really good at these games, but I was able to beat it with only a few glimpses at the guide. Other people will tell you it was easy. Hmmmm. Most of it was. The story overall is pretty good. The gameplay is a bit on the glitchy side. For example some puzzles won't work unless you click on things in a certain order. You might figure out the answer, but the game won't register that you did and then you're stuck. So why did I buy it?
1. I'm intrigued by the whole Jack the Ripper story.
2. I like adventure/mystery games.
3. I like adventure/mystery games that I can beat.
4. i like adventure/mystery games that are scary.
FLAWS:
1. Some predictable events.
2. Minor glitchy gameplay.
3. An ending on the weaker side.
Jack the Ripper has a few parts which are eerie and is best played at night in the dark. I suggest waiting a little while till it drops down a few bucks though. But if you're really itching for a game that's puzzling and creepy and will entertain you for a few nights, then go out and buy it. :)

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