Murdered: Soul Suspect

While it creates an interesting mystery to solve through the course of its plot and provides some round, intriguing characters to follow through it, there’s just not a lot to do, and when the game throws crime-solving and clue-gathering at you in earnest, the experience almost always oscillates between dull and frustrating.

I respect what Airtight tried to do in Soul Suspect and I think that with a little more refinement, some broader characters and a bit more of a fast paced story that the game would have been much more enjoyable. Unfortunately the repetitiveness and dragging narrative holds it down from being much more than a mediocre title at best. The story and acting holds up, even if it’s monotonous to plod through, so when you inevitably find this in your local bargain bin it’s still worth a play through.

For all of Murdered: Soul Suspect’s shortcomings, there are some things it gets right. ...The few moments where Murderd: Soul Suspect actually makes good on its supernatural potential aren’t worth slogging through the rest of the game for. It’s trying to be a gripping murder mystery, but never really knows how to get there. This is one you should probably just leave for dead.

Less game and more interactive story, your enjoyment of Murdered: Soul Suspect will be directly proportional to how much you buy into the tale that it tells. Those looking for a title with engaging gameplay will be sorely disappointed by the lack of challenge, boring stealth, and hunt the clue investigations.

Murdered: Soul Suspect lingers almost exactly at the quality middle point as a game. It doesn't do anything particularly good, nor does it do anything terribly bad; it's just okay. The ghost stories and premise of the title are what have pushed the needle up into the green but even these serve as a reminder of what could have been.

Players may have to go through a few ridiculously simple investigations to get to it, but the story is the star of the show and entertains throughout. Players looking for more of an adventure game with a good story who doesn’t mind a few simple things to get through to see that story should give Soul Suspect a try.