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Apparently a tie-in with a Jamie Lee Curtis film called Virus: It Is Aware, this is a dreadful piece of software. It's slow, terribly jerky, awful to control and very badly translated. The worst thing about the whole game is that it's chokka with frustrating and very annoying unavoidable deaths. Just about every location in the game has some hidden hazard that you'll only discover after it's killed you. It's hard to believe that someone actually wasted their time and effort trying to make this anywhere near playable. They failed, by the way. This is a dreadful piece of software that will do nothing for the developers' CV. Gah!
Point and click adventure games often get accused of being far too linear and this one's no different. It looks fabulous but can get very tedious to play because you're often scouring the screen for the tiniest of objects before you can progress. It's nicely atmospheric though, but there's no getting away from the fact that you're constantly steered to take the storyline in a certain direction. This doesn't make it utter tosh but it's not the most satisfying of experiences either. One for X Files, or indeed Gillian Anderson fans, as opposed to general games fans. It's not a game to change our basic opinion of PlayStation point and click adventure games.
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