Murder on The Orient Express. Movies Anywhere. Watch your purchase on Movies Anywhere supported devices. Once you select Rent you'll have 14 days to start watching the movie and 48 hours to finish it. Can't play on this device. Check system requirements. Available on HoloLens. Mobile device. Xbox Cast and crew. Kenneth Branagh Director. Olivia Colman Hildegarde Schmidt. Lucy Boynton Countess Andrenyi. Agatha Christie: Murder on the Orient Express is based directly on the novel by the same name.
Developers Awe Games and publisher Dreamcatcher put it in your hands to play the famous mystery and solve it with your own abilities.
Are you ready for such a challenge? The game is based in the novel by the same name Murder on the Orient Express. As such it features what could be her most prominent character: Hercule Poirot, the famous Belgian detective with an even more famous mustache. But here you won't be playing Poirot, but instead, you'll control a new original character and work together with the detective to solve the case. Since it's one of her most renowned works we won't be discussing the plot here, but it's worth mentioning that it's not a completely faithful adaptation.
The game takes some liberties to add the character you control. And of course, some changes had to be done to make this story more "playable". The game takes place in a 3D environment, but it is a full-blown point and click adventure.
If the term doesn't ring a bell to you it is actually pretty simple. You don't control your character's movement on itself, rather you just click on an item or spot you want to interact with and if available, an interaction begins. Combining items and questioning people are the only things that will get you through in solving this mystery. You can pick up different clues from the environment in some cases you'll have to use them to interrogate people, or maybe combine a couple of items to get a neat tool that will help you progress.
That's pretty much it, sure, there are other tweaks and add-ons to the game style, but overall it tends to get a little on the repetitive side. It becomes boring after a while unless you're really digging the mystery. However, it's extended to make room for a second melodramatic plot twist that detracts from the original ending. If you're familiar with the novel you'll welcome the surprise, but you can't help but wish the drama was reserved for the novel's original finale.
The new addition was meant to be touching but is just manipulative and contrived, completely missing the spirit of the book. Other original touches would have been better left out. There is a significant plot twist towards the end of the second act that sets up the additional ending, but it's barely even mentioned before the final scene. Other story issues just reek of poor design. At one point, you mention to the barman that the chef was temperamental that day, before you actually speak to the chef to discover that tidbit.
In another, you question a porter about his lateness before the engineer tells you it was even an issue. These and other moments make it obvious the game wasn't prepared for you to carry out tasks outside of a specific order.
They also make you feel disconnected from the story, which is already coldly crammed with a ton of clues and plot threads to sort through.
But first you have to uncover all that evidence. You'll interrogate a healthy list of suspects, including a count and countess, a princess, a typewriter-ribbon salesman, an American grandmother, and plenty more. There is a lot of dialogue to wade through, particularly in the game's central act, and thankfully the voice cast is excellent.
There are a few suspect accents, but the actors do a fine job of bringing life to a large group of characters that have relatively little to work with. It's a good thing, because Murder on the Orient Express requires a whole lot of repetitive questioning and backtracking that's emphasized by the confined setting.
For instance, you'll spend a good chunk of time collecting passports. It feels like pointless busywork, since you have to question every passenger and crew member and then explore every sleeping quarter, when only one or two of the passports do anything to advance the plot. Then, you have to get fingerprint samples from everyone. Then, you have to compare every pair of shoes to the footprints outside the dead man's room. It requires trudging from one end of the train to the other, so the game not only has you repeat the same task ad nauseam, but also rarely changes the scenery.
The excursions into a chilly forest and the opening scenes in the station are your only respite. Some of the more traditional puzzle elements are easier to swallow.
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