Hitchcock: The Final Cut

by UBI Soft

Product Details

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• ASIN: B00006496H
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: March 29, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 1.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #43,910 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Hardly to be considered a classic. Ever., July 1, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Hitchcock: The Final Cut (CD-ROM)

Rule of thumb: Before you buy a game, make sure the French didn't have a hand in its making. Do some research, if you can; it's usually the same trap. Interesting concept, nice graphics, infernal gameplay.

The Final Cut has been inspired by the films of Alfred Hitchcock, which means you should be familiar with his films in order to be able to solve some of the puzzles. You are a grumpy detective who was hired by a mysterious mute lady to investigate the strange goings-on on a remote film studio.

The figures are rendered in realtime, the surroundings are pre-rendered still images. At the highest quality setting, the detective moves with a frame rate of 5 to 10 fps (estimate, Radeon 64 VIVO graphics card). At the lowest, he looks worse than Lara Croft in her first adventure.

The game controls are an insult. To move the detective around, you use the keyboard -- a clumsy affair since he seldomly moves exactly where you want him. To investigate something more thorougly, you use the mouse.

The game play is uninspired: Arrange a few words, use object x with y, solve simple numerical puzzles (make sure you write some details down even though there is an automatic journaling feature). The trickiest part are the arcade sequences -- downright unfair, given the clumsiness of the controls. During an arcade sequence, the save feature is blocked, therefore you can be stuck in such a scene for hours.

After about three hours of very frustrating gameplay, the game went back on the shelf, from where it's unlikely to return. I couldn't tell you a single reason why I should want to finish it, even though I'm a certified Hitchcock fan.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Pleasant diversion for the fan, August 23, 2002

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Lynn S. Hendricks "Wordmama" (Carson City, NV USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hitchcock: The Final Cut (CD-ROM)

A pleasant enough little bit of fluff designed for the hardcore Hitchcock fan. Plot is fairly threadbare, but that's because they insisted on weaving in a series of mainly unrelated clips from the original movies. With Universal's connections, they managed to get themselves some first-rate acting and even fairly decent writing. Graphics are great, but interface is quite clumsy, and puzzles, while difficult but not too, are often very bizarre in solution. But it's a pleasant enough way to spend a weekend.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars The Final Cut, October 17, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Hitchcock: The Final Cut (CD-ROM)

This is a very interesting game. The upside is that you have a palm pilot that you can review at anytime and you can jump to locations once you have visited them. The downside is that it uses keyboard controls to move the character. It is very difficult to locate hotspots because the character must be in a certain position, facing a certain way to trigger the symbol which means you can "see" something. You have to go over a room several times in all possible directions to see if you have missed anything.