Have you been missing the good old days of FMV games? Or would you like the experience of playing a game within a video environment? If so, check out Flotsam's impression of this noir adventure series with a compelling new detective/hero.

Casebook: Episode 1 - Kidnapped

Thanks, flotsam! :yay12:

Thanks flotsam and Becky! Great details!

Ana

Is there a demo for this game? I didn't see any sign of it at the official website.

ascovel, I apologise - I was thinking of the trailer.
mea culpa

You are absolved, my son!

No problem. Although a demo would be nice.

I quite liked this game .I had no probs at all

Very interesting review, thanks!

Thanks Flotsam, I'm thinking I might like this game. :happydance12:

Thanks for the review. It looks interesting

Good game just not long enough for me .....Liked it though

Thanks much for the in-depth review. I do like interactive games, but I have never tried one with live actors. I hope that "Kidnapped" will run on VISTA.

Thank you for the review

Spyros

Interesting game, for the review

haha. worked fine on my vista, unlike SOME THINGS. sigh. good game. strange, but quite refreshing. nice review flotsam. very thoughtful. and like you say, it's a 'hard game to rate' because it's quite different. but I liked it!

Yeah, thanks flotsam, you were right, the story carries it through those times when the gameplay is easier. It's not really an adventure game, is it? Like you said, it's a strange new kind of casual game ... slash TV series ...

Hi smihly and welcome to GameBoomers!

The consensus so far between those who play both casual and adventure games is that Casebook is more adventure than casual. We are seeing some interesting cases of genre fusion lately.

The game looks very interesting, and I think Det. Burton is hot. Does anyone know if Big Fish has it?

You can download it from BigFish here.

Thankks Becky!

I think you're probably right, it is more adventure than casual - it's got more too it than a casual game, and the scale of it is more ambitious - it's a development on Mystery Casefiles, even if it isn't quite so ... glitzy.

I downloaded it from the game's own site, by the way, because I couldn't figure out if the one on BFG was safe - I found it by googling 'casebook the game'.

I'm interested in hearing about other good fusion games, too ...

smihly, BigFishGames is quite safe with awesome customer service. No worries downloading from them.

Ana

Smihly -- some recent casual games with adventure-like elements are: Nancy Drew Dossier Lights, Camera, Curses, Agatha Christie Death on the Nile and Sherlock Holmes: The Mystery of the Persian Carpet. I'm sure there are others too. (I'm basing this on descriptions of the games -- I haven't played any of these yet.)

Thanks for that Becky. I'll check some of those out - I wanted to playe a demo of Nancy drew but there isn't one on BFG. I really enojoyed Nancy Drew and Moondog Lake (is that the name?).

And hey Tigre! I love BFG - they're fantastic! but there was a bit of an issue with casebook before christmas ... And someone told me i could get it from the maker's website, which i did, and it ran fine ... BFG are great, though, they are really responsive and helpful. Love them.

Moondog Lake is close enough.