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It was just another day at the Sam Cruise detective agency when the phone rang and some dame wanted to meet me at the top floor of the Royale Hotel. Now I ain't exactly overburdened with dollars, so I agreed. Little did I know that there'd be cops crawling all over the place, and I ain't their favourite person.

So I switch to one of my disguises and escape, only to be caught by the mob, dropped off a building and robbed! Take my advice, kid, don't became a private detective, it'll break your heart *and* you'd have to put up with all those private dick jokes!

I was asked to check out this new game from Microsphere - you know the people who did Back To Skool - which stars me, a crummy private detective in a crummy town.

The streets are full of garbage, the cops and the mob, all of whom are out to get me. All I want to do is find out who croaked the man in the hotel and who's this Fat Man everyone's on about. What's going on in number 19?

The only lead is the phonecall telling you to go to the top floor of the Hotel Royale. There you find a body and receive another phone call that leads you to a key, the Fat Man, probably prison and maybe the odd flight off a tall building, unless the snipers trying to gun you down get you first.

By moving around the city (it's a good idea to keep moving) and breaking into the odd building you'll gradually get on the trail that may finally lead to the solution of the case of the Bali Budgie. To succeed you will have to learn which of your eight disguises to use at the right time to get you into the mob's meetings *and* keep you out of jail.

Unfortunately, you need bucks to keep going, which you can earn from client's fees during the game or by catching the money that still blows in the wind after a bank robbery that went badly wrong. Run out of money and you run out of game.

An excellent game featuring superb graphics and an incredible atmosphere that drives you back again and again until you finally solve the mystery.