Evil Under the Sun (computer game)

Agatha Christie: Evil Under the Sun
Original title	Agatha Christie: Evil under the Sun
Studio	AWE Productions
Publisher	The Adventure Company JoWooD
Senior Developer	Scott Nixon
Erstveröffent- lichung	October 15, 2007
platform	Windows , Wii
genre	Point-and-click adventure
Game mode	Single player
control	Mouse & keyboard or game controller
medium	DVD-ROM , download
language	German English
Age rating	USK PEGI

Agatha Christie: The Evil Under the Sun (original title: Agatha Christie: Evil under the Sun ) is a computer game by The Adventure Company , which was released for Windows PCs and the Wii game console . It was published in 2007 as the third part of a series of adventure games based on novels by crime writer Agatha Christie and is based on her novel of the same name . It's a classic point-and-click adventure .

content

The game begins in 1940 during the Second World War in Poirot's detective agency in London , who tells his friend Arthur Hastings about this case. Hercule Poirot is on vacation on Seadrift Island in Devon . There is a murder, Arlena Stuart Marshall is dead. The police are called, Colonel Weston is the chief of police in the nearest town Lethercomb on the mainland. Poirot begins investigating the Colonel, who is an older friend of his. The guests of the hotel on the island are interviewed. At the scene of the crime, Poirot discovers a hidden cave in which he finds a can of heroin . He continues to determine which hotel guest could commit this murder, most guests have an alibi . Only Stephen Lane, Major Barry and Horace Blatt have no alibi. Another murder many years earlier had some similarities to this case, Alice Corrigan was previously strangled and the killer was never found. Poirot can prove that Patrick Redfern, one of the guests of the hotel, is Edward Corrigan and that he murdered Arlena. He and his wife Christine are arrested as urgent suspects. Christine pretended to be Arlena and lay down on the beach, apparently dead. As Patrick and another guest of the hotel rowed past the beach, they saw Christine, disguised as Arlena, lying on the beach and got help. Patrick went into the cave, strangled Arlena, and laid her on the beach. The motive for the notorious female murderer and his accomplice: money and jewels that they stole from the murdered.

In contrast to the two other Christie adaptations by The Adventure Company ( Murder on the Orient Express and And Then There Were None ), the plot of the game is based closely on parts of the novel , in particular the same perpetrators are presented at the end and the player does not control any character not mentioned in the novel, but for the first time directly the detective Hercule Poirot . The main difference to the novel is that Hercule Poirot has already experienced the plot in the game and describes it to his friend Hastings in retrospect. In several sequences, the player takes control of Captain Hastings in Poirot's London apartment and can thus influence the solution of the case in various ways.

Game principle and technology

Evil Under the Sun is a 2.5D point-and-click adventure . For polygons composite, three-dimensional figures act against pre-rendered scenes. The player can use the mouse to move his character through the locations and use the mouse buttons to initiate actions that allow the character to interact with his environment. Poirot can find objects, apply them to the environment or other objects and communicate with NPCs . As the story progresses, more locations will be unlocked. The locations are pre-rendered still images. Communication with the NPCs takes place via multiple choice menus.

reception

Meta-ratings Database Rating Metacritic 66

Evil Under the Sun received mediocre to poor ratings. The review database Metacritic aggregates 18 reviews with an average value of 66. In its 2/2009 issue, Wii Magazine rates the Aventure as a “leisurely adventure for gamers with a lot of brains and patience” and rated it with 72%. For GameStar , issue 2/2008, the PC game is an "entertaining but low-tension crime thriller." The magazine praised the good speakers and the detailed time coloring, but criticized the monotonous design, "stiff animations", sound effects and music of the game. Overall, it gives a rating of 70%. PC Action 3/2008 awards a rating of 70% and criticizes “very small objects and no display for interaction points.” PC Games comes to a mixed conclusion in the 3/2008 issue: “The developer got the hang of the third Christie Crime not out yet. It's enough for an okay. ”And assigns it the grade“ satisfactory ”.

Web links

• Evil under the sun at MobyGames (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Emma Boyes: Poirot investigates again on PC . Gamespot UK . April 11, 2016. Retrieved June 19, 2007.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Metacritic.com: Agatha Christie: Evil under the Sun. Retrieved September 25, 2019 . 
3. ↑ http://www.testberichte.de/d/einzeltest/wii-magazin-152740.html
4. ↑ Rating in GameStar 2/2008
5. ↑ Test result in PC Action 3/2008
6. ↑ Test report conclusion PC Games 3/2008