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Ripper (PC Game)
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Ripper (PC Game)
Author: Stuart Smith
Thursday, 19 November 1998 - 09:12 pm |        | Today I bought the new game, "Jack The Ripper" from Gametek. It seems really good so far! The illustrations of the sites are dead accurate. And according to the manual, ALL the known evidence is included in the game. However, since the ripper is unknown, fictious clues have been added as well, and from one game to another these may change, so that you will have different solutions to each game.
I only played the tutorial so far. But the game looks like lots of fun! And the music is SUPERB! |
Author: Gene Emery
Thursday, 19 November 1998 - 09:12 pm | | It's hard to keep track of the layers of weirdness you have to face when you start playing ''Ripper'' (Take 2, DOS/Windows, $60).
The year is 2040. You're Jake ``Another body, another byline'' Quinlan, a crime reporter for the New York Virtual Herald, who finds himself covering a criminal unlike any the city has ever seen.
The victims have been torn apart with a speed and surgical precision that's inhuman, attacked by a mysterious weapon that's described by the medical examiner as something that must be ``a cross between a Veg-O-Matic and a diamond cutter.''
Every time the Ripper strikes, he's sends you a video message, appearing as a green blob and suggesting that you might know him.
The cop in charge of the case seems to be destroying evidence at the same time he's trying to solve the murders.
Then your girlfriend, who thinks she's close to discovering the Ripper's identity, ends up in a coma after escaping one of his attacks. But the hot-shot brain specialist responsible for her care mysteriously refuses to give her the treatment that could bring her out of the coma.
And that's only on the first of the six CD-ROMs that make up this game.
With appearances by movie stars Christopher Walken, Burgess Meredith and Karen Allen, ``Ripper'' is an impressive achievement. It reportedly cost $4 million to create this game, and the investment shows.
Its graphics are wonderfully detailed, allowing players to move smoothly through the computer-generated sets, even when there are actors in the scene. The folks behind ``Ripper'' make it look easy to mesh flesh-and-blood humans with a virtual world.
It's helpful to know some of the terms and concepts behind cyberspace, the surreal world familiar to science fiction fans in which information and computer programs often appear as physical objects, but they don't necessarily behave in the same way as their real-world counterparts. A piece of knowledge you need to know, for example, appears as a bubble that, once learned, is absorbed directedly into the head of the human figure that represents you.
You'll need to spend a lot of time and effort trying discover the passwords that give you access to various cubbyholes in cyberspace and battling creatures that represent the computer programs designed to keep out intruders. It's fun to see this strange cyberworld displayed so imaginatively.
You'll probably also need a hint book. Some of the puzzles you'll need to solve are very challenging.
At one point in the story, the hero complains that ``I was beginning to think I was in a bad mystery novel where EVERYONE did it.'' Actually, ``Ripper'' has four different endings. The folks at Take 2 say you should be able to play the game several times without getting bored.
``Ripper'' has some of the usual inconsistencies you find in these complex games.
When Jake goes to the brain clinic to visit his comatose girlfriend, for example, he tells the doctor, ``She looks pretty bad.'' But he hasn't looked at her yet.
Some of the quirks are more serious. The time zone map you'll need to solve one of the puzzles is wrong, and I had to load in the correct solution to the related puzzle several times before the game would recognize it.
``Ripper'' is rated for ages 17 and older because of the realistic blood and strong language.
There have been plenty of attempts over the years -- both good and bad -- to come up with new versions of the story of the monster who brutally murdered at least five prostitutes during a three-month period in 1888. There's no doubt that this futuristic tale of a new Jack the Ripper makes the cut. |
Author: Mom
Thursday, 19 November 1998 - 09:13 pm | | | This game is absolutely fantastic. You are Jake Quinlin, a Virtual Herald news reporter who is going around trying to find out who-did-it and why. Its difficult so people may have to search the web for hints and codes to get the help they need. I beat the game once and am going in for a 2nd time |
Author: Dekker Falconetti
Saturday, 03 April 1999 - 10:01 am | | speaking of Ripper...it's not just the best game ever made...there are some incredible tie ins to the original case (not to mention other movies the stars have been in, etc.) I would love to hear from others who play and have more knowledge about the original case...there are a lot of vague references that I'm not even sure were intentional...but some of the specific ones I've notices (although I've noticed a lot more than these): Josey Dorsett dies playing Mary Kelly who died on Dorsett Street, they are attempting to decode the brain image of the last thing a ripper victim saw in order to find the killer (in the game), and in reality they photographed the eyes of a ripper victim hoping that the image would reveal jack the ripper....
anyway, I won't bother going further into it because I don't know if I'll get any responses...but if you're reading this, check out my pages dedicated to Ripper stars Christopher Walken (Magnotta), David Patrick Kelly (Falconetti), and Scott Cohen (Quinlan)
http://members.xoom.com/DaksWalken
http://members.xoom.com/dreamDekker
http://members.xoom.com/dreamDekker/scott.HTM |
Author: jennifer pegg
Monday, 04 March 2002 - 01:32 pm | | is this game still available as it sounds good (uk version)
jennifer |
Author: stephen miller
Monday, 04 March 2002 - 01:50 pm | | Hi Jennifer I don't know if you can still buy it new try Gameplay at leeds I can't remeber the phone number but they have a website
www.gameplay.com
Also you may well find it on ebay just put a search in for Jack The Ripper
hope this helps
from steve
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Author: jennifer pegg
Tuesday, 05 March 2002 - 03:27 am | | thanks will try this!!
perhaps they will rer release it with the new film out! |
Author: Brian Schoeneman
Wednesday, 08 January 2003 - 04:38 pm | | Howdy all,
I was perusing one of my favorite websites for old computer games - www.the-underdogs.org, and I found that they have the old "Jack the Ripper" game from GameTek available for free download on their site.
The game has been "abandoned" by it's maker, so it's legal to download and play it for free. I've not tried to see if the game works on my system yet, but I thought I'd let you all know about it so you can check too!
Here's the link: Jack the Ripper by GameTek
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Author: Howard Brown
Wednesday, 08 January 2003 - 09:50 pm | | | Brian....Thanks a lot for the link !! Fats |
Author: Dan Norder
Thursday, 09 January 2003 - 07:42 pm | | Brian,
Unless they have a written statement from the original publishers that the game is in fact free to anyone, downloading and using "abandonware" is still illegal.
The site even admits this on their About page: "We believe that providing games that have been abandoned by their publishers, while technically illegal, is a valuable service...."
And from their FAQ: "But isn't abandonware illegal? Unfortunately, yes. [...] Despite the illegal status of abandonware, we believe that we are offering a valuable service..."
So, download it if you want, but don't trick yourself into thinking it's not breaking the law.
Dan
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Author: Brian Schoeneman
Thursday, 09 January 2003 - 08:00 pm | | Dan,
Well, as far as I am aware, GameTek is out of business, and no longer supports any of their games.
So it's about as legal as "abandonware" can get, I suppose.
In any event, I'm sure that you're fairly safe trying the game out. I couldn't get it to work, unfortunately.
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Author: Howard Brown
Thursday, 09 January 2003 - 09:39 pm | | | Yeah.me either. |
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