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Good Game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 16, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This is a great game, easy to navigate and the puzzles are not too hard (compared to ANY of the Myst Games)...

If you like the traditional point and click type role play games, good story line, then this is a great game for you...

HOWEVER...

If bad voice acting irritates you, then this game will irritate you beyond belief...

HORRIBLE!!!

BUT, overall it is a great game and you should play it...

Abrupt ending but still great fun

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 26, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Yeah, I was a little disappointed in the way this one ended but that's only because I wanted it to go on forever. One of my favorite adventure games in recent memory.

Don't Waste Your Money!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 10
Date: January 25, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game was a complete waste! It must have been developed overseas as the english subtitles were lacking in translation on occasion. The puzzles were not much of a challenge and the storyline was boring. At the end of the game, the final cut scene locked up the computer and required a reboot. At that point, the game would not even reload/start so I had to reinstall. Yes, I'm using a top of the line computer with Vista Ultimate so I'm sure it was a programming problem. What a piece of garbage.

An Almost Great Game!!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: May 27, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This is one of those "could of been great games". The gameplay suffers from unimportant facts being spewed out much too often. And as usual the storyline ending goes nowhere. SAVE your money and don't buy this game!!!!! Frequent program crashes even with most up to date patch and drivers!! Use your Stimulus Check for gasoline instead!!

games like this will kill the genre for good

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: July 21, 2008
Author: Amazon User

buggy, impossible pathfinding and the occasional asinine puzzle will make sure to ruin your experience like culpa innata writers did to me. Too bad because there was a n overall intriguing story behind this clunker of an adventure game. The misses are just unforgivable. Avoid

Wide open spaces

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: February 01, 2008
Author: Amazon User

The game was interesting enough for me to play all the way through, but it ended up that I was investing all of my time in a to-be-continued. Soooooooooooo many loose ends, and big ones too. It really ruined it for me.

An engrossing mystery

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: June 03, 2008
Author: Amazon User

It's the year 2047, and you play as security officer Phoenix Wallis, who is assigned to investigate the murder of Vassily Bogdanov, a World Union citizen killed during a visit to his homeland of Russia. Most of the gameplay involves interviewing Bogadanv's friends and associates for clues to the victim's character and activities. As other reviewers have noted, there is a LOT of talking in this game, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. At times it feels more like an interactive movie than a game, but to be fair, it is a good movie. Most of the voice work is pretty good, too - some of the accents are a bit off, but there are only a couple of actors who are so bad that they brought me out of the game.

Puzzles are pretty much split into investigative puzzles, for which you'll use Phoenix's PC, and more traditional adventure game fare. Most of the puzzles are easy-to-medium, although there are a few that can really hang you up. There's one puzzle that pretty much requires you to have seen the movie "WarGames" - I suppose you could eventually figure it out without the movie reference, but it would probably seem like a bizarre solution.

I should point out that the game really earns its "Mature" rating. Casual sex is normal in the World Union, and while you won't see (or really, hear) anything graphic, there is an awful lot of sex talk. There's also a bit of profanity, although it's nothing compared to some games on the market. There isn't much violence, but you do eventually see a flashback to Bogdanov's murder, and there's also a dream sequence which contains some nightmarish scenes of dead bodies.

My biggest complaint with Culpa Innata is that there are so many plot threads and hinted-at conspiracies that never actually go anywhere. The murder itself is wrapped up pretty well, but there's an optional side-story in the tunnels that has no payoff. There are also a lot of hints about the dark underbelly of the World Union, but Phoenix never had as much interest in those topics as I did. Plus, and this is a pet peeve, it's kind of irritating that she tells everyone how top-secret her investigation is, and then proceeds to blab to just about anyone who will listen. Have some discretion, Phoenix!

Bottom line: this is a really fun game, although it might not be for everyone. Yes, it is very talky, and you won't find closure for every storyline. Hopefully there will be a sequel, because this is an incredibly rich world that could use more exploration.

cory in colorado

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 02, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Wow, I really enjoyed this game. I like the 3rd person view with the point and click. Too bad they just don't use the mouse to move characters around. The puzzles used through the game went with the story line and they weren't so hard that it would stop you from playing the game. I've played it twice so far and I thought I could not do some scenes to get through it faster. No, all the scenes have to play out. I hope they come out with a sequel, I like murder mysteries!

This is so much fun!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 18, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game is really a lot of fun. It doesn't seem to get boring as of yet. There is always so much to do, that if you are stuck you can try just doing some other stuff. (It is a murder mystery, set in a futuristic society!) In some games, if you can't solve the puzzle you are stuck with the story until you solve it, but this game is non-linear in that way. I really like the nighttime part, because you get to go hang out with your friend Sandra (if you called her earlier to set it up!) and gossip about all of the interesting characters you had to interrogate that day. You can choose what clothes you want to wear, and maybe just take a stroll in the Pyramid for fun.

The sexual content is just part of daily conversation, just that everyone has sexual partners and its a topic of interest to the people. I'd think that part would be appropriate for teenagers. There was only one part so far where this guy was quite suggestive. One time, she had sex with her boyfriend, but it was more like "let's go have fun now", at dinner, and then we see her the next morning at work, so nothing explicit. I haven't got that far in the game, so there could be a surprise or something.

I'm more for the story in an adventure game than the puzzles, and so far the puzzles haven't been "showstoppers" that bring your fun to a grinding halt. They have appropriate difficulty. The story and characters are very well written. Everyone thinks in terms of the society's values of greed and profit. I want to see Phoenix (the protagonist) as a "normal" person, but then she will say something totally in that society's mindset to prove she cares just as much about profit and being wealthy as anyone in that society.

Serious mystery game, not for everyone

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: April 27, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I have to say this game isn't for everyone, and you can count me among the unimpressed. If you enjoy lighthearted adventures with sharp, excellently-written dialogue like The Longest Journey or Sam & Max, then Culpa Innata is pretty dull and lacking by comparison. The focus here is much more on the plot and mystery, with a healthy dose of Myst-style puzzles involving cracking locks and rearranging parts of mechanical devices. While there are many people who will find this game highly enjoyable, make sure you like this type of adventure game before you jump in and buy this one. Overall, an OK game, but nowhere near great.

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