INTERPOL: THE TRAIL OF DR CHAOS Posted by Dan Pearson on Jan 16, 2009 16:56 (Jan 16, 2009 16:56) |
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The current internet fad of "Where’s Wally" (Waldo for our American readers) games has finally come over to Xbox Live in the form of Interpol: The Trail of Dr Chaos, but is this game worth looking out for?
In The Trail of Dr Chaos you are a member of Interpol trying to stop the evil Dr Chaos from carrying out his diabolical plans, however at the start of the game you have no real idea what is going on, the main thing you need to know though is that throughout the game you will travel to numerous locations around the world, looking for clues and capturing minions before finally bringing in the evil Dr.
I do enjoy crime games, unfortunately they are few and far between, Sherlock Holmes which popped up on the Mega CD, Agatha Christie on the Wii and the enjoyable but limited CSI on the Xbox 360 were all favourites, Interpol however disappointed right from the off. The game is just a series of poorly represented locations from around the world, San Francisco, Paris, Tokyo and Cairo among others all have famous locations to explore but for some reason they are really messy, Im talking teenager’s bedrooms here. The famous windy road on San Francisco has you rooting around a dump of a camper van, offices and theatres that have so much rubbish everywhere that it would make health and safety officers faint.
 Your goal is to find certain items from a list at the top of the screen, this can be items like a guitar, pens, maps etc, however you will get the occasional weird one like a dog, a fly or lightbulbs?, what are you going to do with that at the crime lab? To find what you are looking for you move the cursor around the screen and when you see something of interest you can either zoom or just collect it. To try and find clues quickly you can try mashing the buttons all over the screen but the clock will penalized time if you are caught doing this too much.
The game does try to lend a hand along the way by giving you a few helping hands, but you should only use these when necessary as later in the game some of the required items are just ludicrous to locate. The description of each item can be really vague at times causing you real headaches, on one level you are asked to find a dog and a whale, the dog is easy as he is sitting in the background, but the whale is nowhere to be seen, until you use a hint and are shown that it is in fact a picture of a whale, this kind of thing happens a lot.
Presentation wise the game is a real let down, the graphics for each area are just very poor resolution drawings, making it hard to pick up on some of the smaller items, even when you zoom in it does not make the picture any clearer. This is the age of HDTV’s, not archaic VGA PC monitors.
You may be thinking that after all this bad mouthing I didn’t really enjoy the game at all, however I did and all because it captures that “one more go” feeling. Interpol may not be the most polished game in the world, however for passing 30 minutes or so a day when you have nothing better to do, it’s great.
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