Conspiracies

by Got Game

Product Features

• Mystery adventure game featuring DVD video
• 2+ hours of full-motion video
• 20-25 hours of gaming
• Over 200 puzzles
• For one player

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0000C4E7R
• Item Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: November 11, 2003
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #34,605 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Conspiracies is a first person murder mystery adventure. Join detective Nick Delios as he is asked to help solve the murder of a small-time crook. Nick needs the cash and accepts the case never suspecting the depth of intrigue and twists lying ahead. This seemingly "simple" case thrusts Nick into a complex case of multiple conspiracies, where nothing is what it seems and which extends beyond the very bounds of our planet.

Product Description

In Conspiracies, you'll enter the world of Nick Delios - a betrayed, jilted, down on his luck private detective. After a spree of drinking and gambling leaves him short on cash, a police investigator & old friend offers him money to look into the murder of a small time crook. Nick agrees, not imagining the bizarre twists and turns lying just ahead. As this seemingly "simple" case thrusts Nick into a complex mystery of multiple conspiracies, you will soon discover that nothing is what it seems.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

75 of 83 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A true adventure game!, October 21, 2003

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D. Gourlis "dgourlis" (Athens, Greece) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Conspiracies (CD-ROM)

Its been over 4 years since I played a genuine adventure game of the Tex Murphy series style.

Conspiracies is an adventure game that has everything! Intrigue, great plot, convincing acting from the creators of the game, great music from a well known Greek jazz band, excellent graphics!

This is a detective-mystery game, which uses a graphics interface like the one found in the Tex Murphy games. in other words, there is total freedom of movement, you may search over and under several objects. The plot is nonlinear, the player has complete freedom of movement.

The main point in any adventure game, is of course its puzzles. I am happy to say there is logic behind every puzzle, you will never be surprised by the solution to a particular problem.

I would like to suggest this game to hardcore adventure games fans and to the new players who would like to play a solid, classic adventure game!

23 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Give this one a pass, April 13, 2004

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Terry Teays (Baltimore, MD United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Conspiracies (CD-ROM)

This review is based on only playing the game part way (DVD version). The fact that we lost interest in continuing to play it pretty well sums up my review. There is a reasonably interesting plot and context for the game, but you will want a walkthrough, rather than hints, in order to move along. The navigation is not as intuitive as many other PC games and the graphics can be crude at times. (e.g. when you are walking around it is possible to see furniture or other objects that are only two dimensional. The protagonist is supposed to be "the best" as a detective, but this doesn't correspond to his financial state or his whining approach. Many times the dialogue with other characters is irrelevant - it doesn't matter which choice you make. Other times, the wrong answer means you have to return and/or start over. Save even more often than usual with this game. On my system I was not able to adjust the sound once the game was started, and the normal setting I use was to low to hear the dialogue, hence I had to try to remember to adjust it beforehand.
The game play is OK, but doesn't always make much sense. For instance, Nick can't begin his first day without coffee and you have to puzzle out how to make it without any water in the apartment. The solution did not occur to me because it resorted to a desparate measure out of proportion to the problem. This is a puzzle for the sake of a puzzle, but doesn't advance the plot or occur in a natural way. You can also miss a part of the play, and go through a great deal of the game without realizing you've missed something, until you are inexplicably stuck. The number of things that you pick up is also limited (though a large number), but this means that you have to go back and "drop" things for later retrieval. However, there is frequently no real reason within the plot context to take some of the things to a given location. There are quite a few cut scenes, which aren't badly done, but your actions are rather limited by them at times. There is the familiar puzzle of assembling a torn up document, but the procedure to do this doesn't work well. This kind of thing has been solved well by such games as Law & Order, so it's not all that difficult. Instead they use a cool 3-D representation of the object, which you can rotate, but this feature isn't used in a very effective manner.

16 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Challenging & Different, April 16, 2004

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Jeanine Cosgrove (Lacey, WA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Conspiracies (CD-ROM)

This turned out to be a challenging & fun game. I would recommend it for young adults and above due to some violence & "cuss" words. I found the graphics very good & after I adjusted to keeping spaces open in the inventory plus maneuvering using the combo of mouse and arrow keys all went fine. I actually inadvertently deleted my game (this is a hazard & hopefully on their sequel there will be a question pop up asking if one truly wants to delete their player name)! At the time I was about 2/3 thru the game! However, this turned out to be good as when I started over the game went along much smoother because I was familiar with it and I picked up more info from the dialogue, etc.

This game comes with outstanding support for the player. There are forums plus e-mail support! So many games only offer e-mail support for technical problems but this one offers actual game help and they are very prompt and friendly with their replies. The forum people were equally helpful. The only other game site that I am aware of offering such great help is Chemicus, Bioscopia, etc.

Besure to watch the credits after completing the game--you get to see the "cast" having fun!