Review: Bow Street Runner

The U.K.'s Channel 4 website is hosting a history game called "Bow Street Runner" This historically accurate game is a companion to Channel 4's tv show.

It's a point-and-click game similar to Myst, where a scene is set on the screen and you move your cursor around and click on items, in this case, to gather evidence to solve a crime. In some instances you can move things around to look for evidence, you can choose subjects to talk about to people, and you can even pick locks and perform surgery (stitch up wounds!).

I played through the first chapter in about a half hour and ultimately failed to present enough evidence (or the correct evidence) to convict the killer, who ended up floating backside up in the Thames river.

I'm really looking forward to playing the next four chapters. The game is really well done and uses a pretty decent cast of actors (from the show?). The music is great and the graphics are a mix of computer art and real pictures. The actors are caught in full-motion and talk in real time.

If anyone likes murder mysteries or historical subject matter should really check out this little game.