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It offers up just the right amount of gothic Americana that makes the game’s mausoleum-filled cemeteries, wood-slatted houses, and shanty-lined harbor so believable. The setting for the game is great! The developers, Airtight Games, would have been hard-pressed to pick a better location than Salem, Massachusetts to host their ghostly story. Great settings? Check! Graveyard, mental asylum, museum, and a church, just to name a few. There is no combat, and though a few half-hearted stealth sections are peppered in, this is very much a story-driven game. But you walk around town (and, since you’re a ghost, often walk right through town), look for clues, investigate crime scenes, and engage in dialog with other spirits still clinging onto this mortal coil, all in the true…ahem…spirit of adventure games. Murdered is one of the few console games that is designed pretty much as a classic adventure game, minus – of course – all the pointing and clicking.

Playing as the spirit of a detective who’s just been killed by the very man he was tracking down, and having to solve his murder from beyond the grave is, in my estimation, a thrilling and intriguing setup for a game. I really liked (and still do) the concept behind Murdered: Soul Suspect.

As it turns out, I had my dates wrong, and I had to settle for purchasing the game two days after it released.

Two things happened with the release of Murdered: Soul Suspect that don’t typically happen to me anymore nowadays, or rarely if they do at all: 1) I actually got excited about a game pre-launch, based on nothing more than a general idea of its concept and some faith in its publisher, Square Enix and 2) I made it a point to head down to the store on launch day to pick up a copy of the game for myself, having previously decided not to place a pre-order ahead of time.

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