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First Person
"Tex Murphy: Overseer, the fifth installment in the Tex Murphy series, has a very intriguing and engaging plot. In fact, it's probably one of the best plots I've seen to date. (And guess what, Overseer's ending certainly leaves plenty of room for a sequel!) In Overseer, the actual gameplay takes place in the past, as Tex recounts the story of his first case to his girlfriend Chelsee. I'm relatively certain that these events are a rehash of the first Tex Murphy game, Mean Streets (released in 1989). However, this didn't affect my experience, as I've never had the chance to play the original. The story starts out relatively small--Tex is a rookie P.I. in the year 2037 (remember, this is the past in Tex's world) and has just gotten his own office. As he waits for his first case, he fritters away the time with a game of Parcheesi. Suddenly, the office door opens and the ravishing Sylvia Linsky walks in. She's convinced that her father Carl's suicide was really murder, and she wants Tex to prove it. Anyway, to make a really long story short, what starts out as a small case with a smidgen of leads superbly develops into the uncovering of a huge conspiracy of dark secrets, murdered people, and a plan to control the world. ..." -

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PC REQUIREMENTS:

CD-ROM version:
133 MHz Pentium processor or better
Windows 95
16 MB RAM
Min. 640 x 480 video resolution, 2 MB video RAM required
16-bit multimedia sound card
4X CD-ROM
35 MB hard disk space
Keyboard, mouse, and speakers

DVD-ROM version:
133 MHz Pentium Processor or better with hardware MPEG-2
or 233 MHz Pentium Processor or better with software MPEG-2 (AGP recommended)
Windows 95
32 MB RAM
Mininum 640 x 480 video resolution, 2 MB video RAM required
16-bit multimedia sound card
DVD drive
35 MB hard disk space
Keyboard, mouse, and speakers

MAC REQUIREMENTS:

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