It is a piece of well written interactive fiction that does not sacrifice on gameplay.Ĭoming Soon magazine: Under a Killing Moon is the best adventure game of 1994.

Together with a tight story and great puzzles, adventure gamers are ready to save the world in Tex style! Under a Killing moon is truly a technological marvel both in design and production. By using a brand new graphic engine developed in-house specifically for this title, the post apocalyptic San Francisco can now be fully realized on screen.

The clever item descriptions and character dialogue will keep you playing into the wee hours of the night to peel off the next layer.Īdventure Classic Gaming says: With the release of Under a Killing Moon, Access Software has upped the ante in the genre of adventure gaming. And you will most definitely be caught up in the adventure the whole time. What's a Tex Murphy game without an excellent storyline and subplots all along the way? You'll go from a small-time pawn shop burglary and end up trying to save the world from a cult with plans to end it. Years later, it remains a seminal classic but often goes overlooked for the very reasons that once made it seem so fresh.Īdventure Gamers: All adventure fans should own it. Caught somewhere between the tail end of the full-motion video craze and the dawn of the 3D revolution, it walked a delicate line between passé and cutting-edge, and for that brief moment in time, it was perfect.

Like Tex Murphy, a hardboiled, fedora-wearing gumshoe in a post-nuclear future, Under a Killing Moon was a game out of time. IGN gives it an 'Amazing': Editors Choice.

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