Martin Mystere : Operation Dorian Gray : To really understand what death is We should live it...

by GMX Entertainment

Product Features

• Strong storyline set in a real 3D Adventure
• Backed by an international comic and TV cartoon series license
• Amazing hi-quality 3D interactive worlds
• Innovative 3D Real-Time and full motion video, comic style
• A cinematographic direction, with exciting Dolby Digital surround music and effects

Product Details

• ASIN: B0015PQM88
• Media: CD-ROM
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #24,113 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

Manufacturer's Description Martin Mystere is a story based on Dorian Gray's recurring dreams: everlasting youth and immortality. Prof. Eulemberg and important researcher of M.I.T., was found murdered. Unknown to anybody somebody is working on an incredible machine, capable of changing the world's destiny...Somewhere, an old sick and cirrhosis tramp reveals he is "I'm Martin Mystere", but of course this is impossible!

Customer Reviews

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1.0 out of 5 stars Not worth $10.99 or more or less, August 21, 2011

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ShakespereIsMyMuse - See all my reviews

= Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Martin Mystere : Operation Dorian Gray : To really understand what death is We should live it... (CD-ROM)

Like I said this game is not worth $10.99 (never mind if the price goes up), I was (we'll call it) "fortunate" enough to find this game a t a store that was going out of business for $4. At the time I thought I was the one getting the deal, the game synopsis sounded so interesting as it was based of the popular Italian Comic Book: Martin Mystère, a Professor of Art History, Archaeologist, Anthropologist (Basically an Italianized version of Indiana Jones who lives in New York ) is called to assist the New York Police Department in investigating the death of long time friend, Professor Eulemberg, prominent archaeologist who's latest top secret reserch lays theory for the three bullet wounds currently residing in his chest.
See, interesting right? Well, the cool looking box and the news clips and envelope containing a final word from the dearly departed are where the coolness comes to a halt. The game is played in a third person POV and is basically a point and click, inventory type game. It becomes very tedious after a while, mostly because it takes forever to get Martin from one side of the room to another. The mouse never seems to take you where you want to go.As Martin walks the colors seem to pull across the screen leaving an annoying streak of color.The cut screens aren't any better, they take forever to load and tend to freeze your computer from time to time. More than once during this game is required to restart due to freezing issues. Also there is no real rhyme or reason to this game it just sort of goes on and on. There's no sort of hints or any type of direction to get you from point A to point B in the game. In order for me to get through this game with any sense of sanity left over I was required to find Internet help. (I know you're probably wondering why I didn't stop playing the game if it was this tedious and boring. Strangely enough even though was boring I wanted to see how this game ended.) Surprisingly enough there are plenty of people out there who have found a way through this game and were kind enough to share with all of us. If you're the type of person who can sit from the computer for hours on end just pointing and clicking adding things to your inventory endlessly then I cannot recommend a better game, but if you are looking for a game with more entertainment value and a lot less boring I strongly recommend anything but this. I found it to not be worth my time or my money; because trust me when I finally got to the end of the game and I saw how the game ended, I could not believe I had spent 14 hours of my life clicking away endlessly at the screen. This game is not even worth it.
Martin Mystere: Operation Dorian Gray was released as Martin Mystere: Crime Stories in the North America region. Please do not be confused into thinking that these are two separate games.