From the casebook of Clay 'Red Eye' Walnum, Private Investigator:
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At 5:00 a.m., Friday morning, July 29, I sat in my dingy office, laying waste to a breakfast of cold pepperoni pizza and hot chocolate, when my computer's message light flashed. I leaped from my chair, spilling hot chocolate on the latest issue of Detective's Monthly, and grasped the printed sheet that was even now ejecting from the printer.
Sandiego's gang had been at it again. According to the message, a female suspect had been seen in Moroni, Comoros, in possession of a sultan's stolen perfume bottle.
This was my chance for the big time! Nailing one of Carmen Sandiego's people would make me front-page news. Shoving the pizza off my desk and onto the floor, I located my phone and called Transoceanic Airways, making a reservation on the first flight to Comoros.
Even though Africa was stiflingly hot, I didn't waste time. As soon as I touched down at Moroni Airport, I made my way into the city to question the witnesses. My first stop was the embassy, where I was informed by the ambassador that he had seen the suspect leave in a convertible. She had said something about bringing a message to the president.
I made notes and moved on to the library. A mousey woman informed me that the suspect, carrying a tennis racket, had checked out books on the Etruscans. Flipping through my Detective's Almanac, I quickly determined that the Etruscans had come from Italy. Further, Italy's government was a republic with a president. Ah, hah! Rome!
Before getting back to the airport, I found a phone booth and dialed up my crime computer. I already knew the suspect was female, drove a convertible and liked tennis. That might be enough evidence to get me an arrest warrant. To my disappointment, I was informed that two people fit the description I had so far: Carmen Sandiego and Lady Agatha. Denied a warrant, I continued on to the airport.
Immediately upon landing in Rome, I was the victim of a vicious attack by a thug with a pistol. I escaped with both my health and the certain conviction that I was indeed on the right track.
After recovering from a bout of jangled nerves (guns, especially when fired in my direction, have that effect upon me), I visited the palace. A guard then informed me that the woman I was pursuing had left in a vehicle flying a golden-lion flag. Rats! I had missed her again. No matter, I was getting closer, especially after learning from the librarian that my suspect had checked out all the books on Veddah artifacts. That knowledge, coupled with my trusty Detective's Almanac (which has two pages of full-color flags), pointed me to Sri Lanka.
In Sri Lanka I learned that the suspect, who had been wearing a fancy ring, had been especially curious about the ancient Franks. She also claimed she was a textile buyer interested in fashions. A quick check in my Detective's Almanac and I knew she was on her way to Paris, France.
In a state of acute anticipation, I dialed up the crime computer and added the ring to the suspect's description. Clutching an arrest warrant for Lady Agatha in my sweaty paw, I climbed aboard a France-bound jet.
I knew immediately my chase was near its end. The moment I disembarked from the jet, I was caught up in a whirlwind of action. Lady Agatha had lain in wait for me, hoping to gun me into history and make good her escape. Of course, she was no match for me. Soon she was in the custody of the local police.
'What are you doing?'
The sound of my wife's voice yanked me back to the real world. France vanished, replaced by the familiar surroundings of my living room.
'I'm playing a game called Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego', I explained. 'It's pretty neat. Not only is it fun, but it's also educational'. She picked up the box. 'An educational video game? Geez, don't tell the kids'. As if on cue, the kids tumbled into the room, grabbed the controls and got to work solving the Sandiego gang's next caper. I sat back, grinning, knowing that the kids were about to learn a great deal about the world.
'Yeah', I whispered, winking. 'Don't tell the kids'.
Rehash of Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?, featuring high-resolution VGA graphics, digitized sound effects, and new locations.
The life cycle is self-explanatory: sign up for a case, travel between locations questioning witnesses, obtain warrants, and make arrests, and you have approximately a week to do so. The options you can do in each location are the same: you can question witnesses, look up evidence reports, or contact Crime Net to receive additional information about the suspect such as features, hair and eye color, auto, and sport. If you're lucky, you can contact other informants like Bart Samson and Vinnie the Squealer.
Once you get enough information about the suspect, you can transmit this information to Warren the Warrant Robot to make him get a warrant for you. If you're not sure about the information you've entered, you can look up the dossiers on each suspect.
Unlike the rest of the Carmen Sandiego games, you're given a quiz just before you get promoted, requiring you to look up the reference that came with the game. If you keep get promoted, you may find yourself in the hall of fame.
Locations include (but not limited to) Kathmandu, Dar-es-Salaam, Baghdad, Manila, Lima, Port Moresby, Singapore, New Delhi, and Tokyo. You can also travel to ACME HQ in San Francisco, but the only thing you can do is start a new case, or assign a new detective.
Tired of the geography questions of Trivial Pursuit? Looking for something that's actually a challenge? Then this game slaps the glove straight in your face. Although it is an educational game, and thus aimed at kids, it poses a decent challenge to everybody and is probably too hard for children. Nonetheless, it's worth playing.
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Where in The World is Carmen Sandiego? Deluxe is a remake of a remake of the classic game. In contrast to the previous versions, the effort on the audio-visual part was greatly increased with this one. The entire game is now made as if it's played on a high-tech phone. Well... high-tech for 1994.
All animations in the game are in cartoon style and mostly take place on the phone's video screen. It's a slight breach of style from the full-color photos in there that show scenery specific to your current location. By checking options on your notepad, you check places and people for evidence and hints as to where the criminal has gone. If you're at the right place, you'll get a zany little animation showing that the culprit just left or is still there. Other animations play when you've caught the right criminal or when you are using the phone.
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When using the phone, another big change is evident: full speech, with a text box that shows what's being said. The quality of the speech is pretty high for the time and the resources used, and is all in all a pleasant addition. The music is nice but stays in the background. That way, it never gets annoying.
Another feature worth mentioning is that you can keep a list of the criminal's characteristics and have the game look up who could be the culprit, and then issue a warrant for that person. If you're not sure about it, you can search through the dossier with all possible criminals. Also, as an additional aid, you've got a list of countries at your disposal with some basic information about each, a map, and a list of the surrounding countries.
All in all, you can hardly recognize the first version in this game, although it followed the same concept. That's not a bad thing, though, as the changes didn't affect the game itself, but made it far more fun and easier to use. Two thumbs up for the remake.
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