About This Game The Moment of Silence is a classic point-and-click 3rd person adventure game set in New York City in 2044. Players step into the role of Peter Wright, an advertising executive currently heading up the Government's 'Freedom of Speech' campaign. When a heavily armed SWAT team storms his neighbor's apartment, Peter must uncover the truth behind his mysterious disappearance as he becomes drawn into the deceptive worlds of corruption and power. Fascinating, well researched visions of the near future 75 locations, designed by award-winning CG artists and more than 500 interactive screens 30 minutes of full screen video Lip synchronization using phonetic voice analysis Motion captured animation.The Moment of Silence marries fully-rendered, animated backdrops with a traditional and intuitive adventure interface. The game mixes real-world locations with fictitious environments to create immersive and incredibly varied worlds.The Moment of Silence offers more than eight hours of professional voice talent for heart-pounding drama that sounds as good as it looks. Traditional adventure puzzles are fused with dialogue choices and moments of high drama, putting the game on par with some of cinema's greatest thrillers, where action sequences are integrated to create a constantly challenging adventure.Key FeaturesAbsolutely unique, highly immersive espionage thriller storyPre-rendered backgrounds with spectacular scenes and actionsReminiscent of The Longest JourneyMultiple choice dialogues35+ true-to-life 3D characters with strong biographical background to interact withFascinating, well-researched visions of the near future75 locations, designed by award-winning CG artists and more than 500 interactive screens30 minutes of full screen videoLip synchronization using phonetic voice analysisMotion-captured animation with real-time facial expressions a09c17d780 Title: The Moment of SilenceGenre: Adventure, IndieDeveloper:House of TalesPublisher:HandyGamesRelease Date: 1 Mar, 2005 The Moment Of Silence Addons A well written sci-fi adventure. It is by no means perfect, with occasional bugs and awkward movement controls that will occasionally have you wanting to throw your mouse through a window, but worth checking out. Through the game you get a rich sense of the world, told to you through hints and mentions in conversation rather than the heavy-handed exposition we see in most similar games.. This is reasonably constructed point and click adventure with some good points but it has some serious flaws that make the price of \u00a314 way too expensive. If you find it on a half price sale it is worth considering.The premise of this game is that you are a man in New York who, soon after moving into a new apartment, observes a police squad forcefully arresting and abducting his neighbour while his terrified wife amd son look on. In your attempt to support the man's family you discover all sorts of strange facts that suggest dark and conspiratorial motives for his arrest.The gameplay is that of a traditional point and click adventure. Most of the plot advancement is through conversation and exploring. There are some inventory based puzzles too, but not enough in my opinion.The good:Despite the occasional weak translations (to English) the characters are believable and the voice acting is pretty good.The plot is engaging and sensible and doesn't leave any unanswered questions.Object based puzzles are sensible.The bad:-The pathing is terrible. It is downright difficult to transition between some screens and the main character will sometimes run around in a circle before going where you want him to.-The scenery involves huge areas that take ages to get across and redundant screens. This makes moving between locations tedious and annoying. This actively ruins one of the better puzzles because it takes a couple of minutes to go from the place where you push a button to the place where you get feedback.- Advancing the plot relies heavily on triggers. Sometimes those are sensible (like interrogating a character to reveal a new location) but some triggers are completely irrelevant to the plot (for example you know what to do and where to go but you can't do it until you've talked to your friend in the office, who has nothing whatsoever to do with the story).I got this in a sale so I'm not disappointed I bought it but it is thoroughly mediocre.. A well written sci-fi adventure. It is by no means perfect, with occasional bugs and awkward movement controls that will occasionally have you wanting to throw your mouse through a window, but worth checking out. Through the game you get a rich sense of the world, told to you through hints and mentions in conversation rather than the heavy-handed exposition we see in most similar games.. I'd have rather watched a gameplay instead of trying to find where the game devs thought it was logical to go. For a person who got used to games with bigger interactivity, it was frustrating all the way. Can't put myself to finish it.. I played this game years ago and the story had always stuck with me. When it went on sale, I made sure to buy a copy. The story is positively riveting and predicted the NSA scandal and surveillance drones 10 years before their occurrence. This alone makes the other predictions of the game to be even more interesting\/ominous. I know a game's story is powerfully interesting when my husband takes off his headphones from playing Overwatch to listen to what I'm playing ;)I really appreciate the sheer number of locations and scenes in The Moment of Silence offers. All too often point and click adventure games these days keep to just 3 locations with just a few different points of view. The Moment of Silence keeps you on your toes with a huge variety of locals.I have to say the character movement can be a bit clunky at times. Also, sometimes I had to click on obscure points in order to fully explore an area. While I felt like the majority of the puzzles were orangic and intuitive, there were a good handful that weren't so and were confusing.Overall, if you love a good Sci-Fi story, enough locations to really feel like an adventure, and don't mind keeping a walkthrough handy, The Moment of Silence is a game I would recommend you purchase. If it's on sale for $10 or less, definitely snatch it up!. So here's all you need to know about this game.You start out the game on the 23 story of an apartment building. As you trying to find the next thing you're supposed to be doing you have to go back and forth several times between your apartment and the street below.Each time you have to wait for the elevator to go up and down all 23 floors. EVERY TIME! WTF!!!!. A pretty decent adventure game for fans of the gnere.. This game is un-f-word-ing-beleivably bad. I had played two other games by House of Tales, Overclocked and 15 Days, and they were really good, so I thought I'd try this one, and what a mistake that was...The game was mostly mechanically bad. It's very difficult to figure out where to make the character walk to transition screens, some of them have click locations, but others you have to walk to a certain part of the screen to get the transition to happen, and to make it all the worse the character just moves where he wants to anyway.Most of the puzzles aren't overly complicated, though there are a few that are unforgiveable... The real issue is that many of the puzzles involve "go here, then there, then to that other place, then back to there", and the character movement is so bad and slow and you have to go through so many screen transitions to get anywhere that in the end it's just an annoyance. The game is padded with a bunch of walking around. If you end up walking to a location then finding that what you need isn't there, you're going to be angry real fast.About a quarter of the way through I gave up and used a walkthrough for every step of the way, because going to one wrong location meant like five minutes of walking around for nothing. I don't want to waste my time walking around when all I was interested in was the story. Near the end of the game I thought maybe I'd try to figure it out on my own again... Big mistake.The last puzzle in the game was the worst. There are 5 important screens in it that you need to go back and forth between, but you have to walk through 6 screens to get from one to the other, that means there are 36 annoying screens to walk through when all you cared about was 5. To go through them in the most efficient way possible (using a guide) you would walk through 48 annoying screens to solve it. And that's using a guide. Without a guide I'd imagine you'd be doing a lot more than that because there is some trial and error involved.Don't waste your time with this game. There are a lot of better adventure games than this, and for a story driven game it's just not worth it.. I'd have rather watched a gameplay instead of trying to find where the game devs thought it was logical to go. For a person who got used to games with bigger interactivity, it was frustrating all the way. Can't put myself to finish it.. Ahhhh Moment of Silence, does it get anymore mediocre? Released back in 2004 you would swear it was made in 1994. It falls for a lot of the pit falls many 90's point and click adventure games did back in those days(I still loved many) and the graphics are about on par for the era. You will find yourself wondering have I explored this whole area or do I need to attempt to walk off screen in some weird fashion(yes it's one of those)? You will also find yourself at the mercy of multiple illogical or poorly designed puzzles although the game isn't terribly difficult. It is packed with boring dialogue and little action even for an adventure game. The game has a post 9\/11 USA feel to it with government so large it is watching everyone all the time. Very Orwellian feeling. I actually did enjoy this aspect of the game and the statement it was trying to make but not enough to forgive its annoyances. Play it if you've already played through all of the great point and clicks but please, dear god, don't make it one of the few you'll ever try. You may find yourself wondering,"I haven't even played through all the Sam and Max franchise what am I doing playing this #$%&!"
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Updated: Mar 17, 2020
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