8.0
Ultimately, I don’t think some of the eccentric flourishes hurt the game. Unheard – Voices of Crime focuses on doing a few things well. The game rises to that very specific set of standards.
Unheard - Voices of Crime
NEXT Studios · Mar 29, 2019
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Put on your headphones and step back into the past. Use the voices you hear to return to crime scenes, tracking down each individual involved and solving the cases. But where do the voices come from? Can you trust what you hear? And what’s the mysterious thread weaving all of these cases together?
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- 8.0Unheard – Voices of Crime is a fascinating concept with maybe too simple gameplay mechanics. More levels, more questions, a higher degree of challenge and a better thought-out plot would have helped to elevate the experience and help the game live up to the potential of its concept.
- 8.0Unheard has a fairly short running time, but that time is mostly well-spent. The concept is ingenious, the scenarios are well-written, the puzzles are cleverly constructed, and the voice acting is solid in a hammy sort of way. There’s even an unsettling, vaguely GlaDOS-like vibe to the sections between the levels – but we won’t spoil the surprize by going into detail.
- 6.0Audio takes a bit of a downward turn with the voice acting, though. Some performances are good, some are fine, but some are just over the top. Trying to immerse myself was occasionally difficult because there were characters whose performances felt like grade-school plays. I’m not sure if NEXT Studios was going for that, but it felt a bit inconsistent. This was especially true when combined with the music, which is generally creepy and ominous just before a player enters a scenario.
- 6.5While Unheard stumbles through a few technical issues, it’s premise alone makes it thoroughly enjoyable. Though short, every minute of Unheard is packed with intrigue and there’s something immensely satisfying about having that ah-ha moment when all the pieces click together.
- 7.0Unheard – Voices of Crime Edition is a clever game with a running time of around five hours or so, mostly dependent on how quickly you solve the cases. The detectives out there will enjoy the analysis of each case, as well as the going backwards and forwards with the audio to find the clues.
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