Memento mori game review

A good solid adventu Memento Mori is a third person adventure game where you find clues and use inventory items to progress in the game. The plot is fairly strait forward but a bit odd not making much sense. You play as two indenities, Max a Before I get into the review I want to state out that I have not gone through this whole game yet.

I plan on finishing it in the next week or so. I may give an opinion in my blog on how I think the ending and all was. Memento Mori First Released Jul 29, released. You're Good to Go! GameSpot Reviews. Player Reviews. Average Player Score Based on ratings. Please Sign In to rate Memento Mori. Score Breakdown Based on ratings. Rating: 8. But the biggest problem with Memento Mori is its dull structure. Although the writers have scripted a story with some tense moments, both Lara and Max get caught up in minutiae all the time.

Almost every single little task is accompanied by something petty. This is a particular problem early on in the game. Lara, for instance, kicks things off with a thrilling quest to get a new cell phone battery from the IT department at her Lyon office and figure out how to turn on a machine in the Interpol lab.

Max wanders the darkened Hermitage, where the biggest obstacle is a velvet rope he doesn't think he should cross. Unnecessary roadblocks like these pop up again and again throughout the game, disrupting and dragging out the plot.

Problems themselves are tedious rehashes of ancient adventure game doggerel, so most challenges feel about as natural as suddenly being forced to complete a crossword puzzle in order to cook breakfast in real life. If you can pick an item up, you can be assured that you'll need it down the road.

So you're faced with scrounging cupboards and trash bins for everything--including clogged spray paint cans, ropes, and rocks--with the assumption that you'll be able to MacGyver something out of this garbage eventually.

There isn't much challenge here, either. You never acquire massive piles of junk, so you generally just have to combine a couple of recently acquired doodads or do something as basic as use tweezers to pull a letter out of a mailbox.

A logic puzzle is tossed into the mix every so often to keep you on your toes, although these brainteasers are about as challenging as a Junior Jumble.

If you keep your eyes open, you'll never lack for numbers to punch into keypads or get stumped trying to rewire a fuse box. The look and sound of the game is better than everything else, though that isn't really saying much.

The game is presented in vivid third-person 3D, with you navigating the detective of the moment through beautifully realized living rooms, offices, rain-swept streets, spooky museums, sunny parks, and more. Locales have a lived-in appearance, right down to the cheesy soft porn that one creep has plastered all over his bathroom walls. That said, there is a serious animation issue.

There are far too many delays caused by mandatory sequences, such as opening a cell phone or closing a door. As you repeat a lot of actions and revisit a lot of the same places, having to sit through these tedious animations is very annoying. Developer: Centauri Production. Publisher: Got Game Entertainment. Released: August NA. Additional Screenshots. As Memento Mori opens, the voice of a scientist announces a new technology that will reveal evidence of forgeries in famous masterpieces of art.

The technology will be used first in the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, which funded the research. The scene changes, and a voice on the phone informs a shadowy figure that an assassination must take place, and soon. Who does this new technology threaten, and why? Like the Latin titled Puritas Cordis , Memento Mori has a spunky, redheaded heroine and a handsome young hero named Max. As in Shadow of Destiny , Memento Mori offers alternate endings influenced by choices made by the gamer throughout the game.

Unlike Shadow of Destiny , the endings are not fully-realized unique cut scenes revealing different futures, but consist of the same cut scene with a voiceover revealing each future.

Memento Mori is distinguished by its ability to immerse the gamer in an alternate world. Lara is bright, tempestuous and has a satiric sense of humor. He also is an expert in art — creating it, lecturing about its history, and when desperate forging it.

His illegal activities were what originally brought him to the attention of Lara and her former boss, Colonel Ostankovic of the Russia Militia.

Ostankovic is an overweening egotist who defines self-absorption. Immersion is also aided by photorealistic environments, some of which are shown at different times of day and night. Perspectives are intriguing and more varied than the elevated angle often used in third person adventure games.

Dramatic orchestral music at the appropriate times also intensifies the gamer's immersion. Authenticity is manifested in the details.

For instance, when Max attempts to place a call from the Hermitage, he extinguishes the flame from his lighter, puts it away, then pulls out his cell phone, which glows in the dark. Surely there is some other way to clothe conspirators and to signal their motivation — anything but those overused long, brown garments.