Cruise for a Corpse
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Interplay Productions
U.S. Gold
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Cruise for a Corpse (orig. Croisière pour un cadavre) is an adventure game from Delphine Software International, made for the Amiga, Atari ST, and MS-DOS.
Plot
The game is designed as a murder investigation. The player assumed the role of Raoul Dusentier, a French police inspector invited to spend some time on Niklos Karaboudjan's boat. Quickly after arriving, Karaboudjan is murdered, and the investigation begins.
The game uses many references to French and Belgian pop culture. Karaboudjan is the name of The Adventures of Tintin character Captain Haddock's cargo ship in the comic The Crab with the Golden Claws. Just like in The Crab with the Golden Claws, crab cans are used to hide objects (in the comic they contain opium, whereas in the game they contain hand grenades).
Reception
Computer Gaming World called Cruise for a Corpse "an admirable recipe for a classic adventure of murder most foul". The magazine liked the rotoscoped animation, but criticized the EGA graphics and "atrocious" code wheel-based copy protection, and concluded that while "Dedicated whodunit aficionados" would enjoy the game, "the general adventure gaming audience" would find it "tedious".<ref name="james199212">Template:Cite magazine</ref>
References
External links
- Articles using Wikidata infoboxes with locally defined images
- 1991 video games
- Adventure games
- Amiga games
- Atari ST games
- Delphine Software International games
- Detective video games
- DOS games
- Erbe Software games
- Mystery adventure games
- Point-and-click adventure games
- ScummVM-supported games
- Single-player video games
- U.S. Gold games
- Video games about police officers
- Video games developed in France
- Video games scored by Jean Baudlot
- Video games set in France
- Video games set in the 1920s