This also means you can miss something essential needed for later on – just try working out which single item you need to grab from a cluttered desk before someone barges in the office to shoot you. A lot of puzzles (such as when breaking into an enemy’s secret hideout) are strictly timed, forcing judicious use of the save function since you’ll get a Game Over if you dawdle. You’ve only got about a week to solve everything, so swiftness is essential.įor all the atmosphere Snow Job conveys, and the praiseworthy uniqueness of its underlying mechanics, it does suffer from some of the particularly irksome problems. Time and money are the game’s resources, and all actions cause the minutes to tick by, with night following day. After hacking the computer you gain clues to track down suspects, or meet people in the park at night, and try to find out why someone wants your ex-lover dead.
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Puzzles center around realistic actions – such as buying the daily newspaper to solve the crossword, which yields a password to hack into an enemy server. It’s all done unobtrusively, and the acting is comparatively good B-movie fare (and if you like B-movies, it’s fantastic). Clicking on people will initiate a short video of dialogue, followed the chance to question them and more video. But when combined with background audio from a busy city street, it does a reasonable job of conveying atmosphere. These scenes aren’t animated, and are essentially just a single screen which wraps around at the ends. Each location you can visit is based on a photographic, panoramic 360 degree view of a single point (such as a busy New York street corner), with clues and people to click on. What makes it interesting is that everything (with the exception of some minigames such as the 3D maze) is FMV based. It’s a typical detective mystery where you need to meet up with an old cop buddy (who just so happens to be now running a bar with exotic dancers), question suspects, solve puzzles, fight enemies, all while doing seemingly mundane things like buying the daily newspaper, rolling some dice for money, catching the subway, and generally wandering around New York City. There’s a conspiracy afoot, and it’s your job to uncover all the dirty details. The ridiculously titled Snow Job sees you as ex-cop Jock LaMonte returning to New York in order to track down and protect your former lover Lara Calabreze, the city’s DA, after a tip-off that she’s to be murdered by mysterious drug dealer Snowman. It’s a sad fact then that one of the better games to make good use of FMV was released only for the 3DO and then promptly overlooked by everyone.
Just look at the Tex Murphy and Gabriel Knight games for proof that the genre can do great things with FMV. Thinking about it, FMV content always seemed best suited to adventure games, where there is plenty of dialogue and interesting characters.
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