Dead Reckoning: Broadbeach Cove - Adventure 9+

I still don’t know who the murderer is, there’s an abrupt arrest at the end of the main game, but that’s it. Then the bonus game doesn’t deal with the murder at all, instead it’s about insurance fraud. This is obviously an older Eipix offering. No morphing items in hos, which their more recent games have. Graphics are okay. Hos are list with interactive elements. Mini games are simple. Worth a play on sale, but wouldn’t buy at full price.

So I saved this game to play until one of the last of a bunch of games I got as I enjoyed the trial version so much. When I first started the trial, I was not expecting to like it too much, but by the end of the trial I was completely enthralled! I love the two scenes where you had to find clues by moving your finger over the screen like a getting colder getting hotter game. I have never seen this before and it was creative and felt that I was actually searching a crime scene. So many mysteries have a pretty obvious culprit and storyline, but this one always stays one step ahead of you. Collecting clues and interviewing people to get lies and truth made this game stand out from any other mystery I've played. Even if they were lying, you still didn't know for sure if they were involved! It really makes you feel that you are actually on a case. Even the shredding of the clues in the HOPs fit in so perfectly with the storyline (love that feature in this and other Eipix games - looks and sounds so satisfying for some reason). If you don't have this game yet, buy it!

The map is useless and sometimes it’s hard to get to we’re you’re supposed to go. It game doesn’t tell what you’re to collect. I’ve only collected stuff by accident. The graphics are OK; the storyline is OK, too, but too much back & forth. Update: As for the map, don’t use; tap the “shoe” icon and it gives you the name of areas you might need to go to. To collect items, you have to look for a thing that, I guess, resembles a tv remote or cordless phone and it’s sort of grayed out.
I stand by the 3 star rating because I had to delete the game and start over again - at the point of using the electric saw to cut the box open to get the hook (Ch 5 and 2 pages from the Bonus game), the saw would not do what it was supposed to do so I couldn’t get the hook to attach it to the rope. Therefore, I couldn’t continue with the game! Bummer! Update 2 - had to delete again - CH 5, I was to play the HOP for the “number tile” and the HOP just disappeared!!! Since I couldn’t go on with the game, I had to delete and start over! I like this game and would like to complete it, but at this rate, I just don’t know if I ever will.