Take Two eventually shut down Access, apparently killing the Tex Murphy franchise. (Russell Means, Margot Kidder, James Earl Jones, Barry Corbin, Tanya Roberts, John Agar, Michael York, Richard Norton, Joe Estevez, Brian Keith and Clint Howard)Īt least two additional games were planned, but they were binned when Microsoft bought Access in 1998 and sold it to Take Two Interactive. They featured solid writing, sharp acting and some surprising celebrity appearances. The final three games were, as mentioned, notable for their "interactive movie" quality. ![]() He then saves the world, making sardonic quips along the way. In the course of his investigations, Tex discovers that he is a pawn in a plot to bring about The End of the World as We Know It. A client appears and offers him a relatively simple job: Find a MacGuffin, track down my friend, etc. The plots of the five games can generally be summarized thusly: Tex is down on his luck, has no money and is largely reduced to eating dog food. He tries to tiptoe along the dangerous fault lines between the world of the mutants and the world of the "norms". Tex, a gritty Private Detective who lives in San Francisco, is genetically resistant to the effects of radiation but lives amongst numerous mutants. Tex Murphy's setting is a post-apocalyptic America after World War III. Number five, Overseer (1998), was essentially a replay of Mean Streets, but brought into the modern video game era with Access' usual movie work. ![]() The fourth game, The Pandora Directive (1996), included the same system and was Access' most ambitious effort. The third game, Under a Killing Moon (1994), was a whole different ball game: it introduced a 3D virtual world and made extensive use of full motion video cutscenes. The game starred Tex Murphy, who represented the epitome of an old-fashioned, black-and-white noir private detective.Īccess would go on to make five games The sequel to Mean Streets, Martian Memorandum (1991), was released strictly for the IBM PC and was not terribly revolutionary. In 1989, Access Software developed and published Mean Streets, a noir adventure thriller for several different platforms.
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