The most awesome 18th century online game! :-D Wheeee!
I'm not a gamer at all, but this game is just fantastic, especially for those of us who love the 18th century! Very special thanks to esteven for giving me the link, I'm addicted! And I made it all through the end, with a B- grade. Ha! Go me!
You can play online, it's for free, but image heavy. Dial-uppers, beware.
BOW STREET RUNNER
"Bow Street Runner" is the game to go with the TV series "City of Vice", which was fantastic, great, amazing, brilliant, woof. It's set in London's Covent Garden in the 1750s. With crime and vice running at very high levels, and before the organised police force existed in England, local magistrates formed the Bow Street Runners and began to impose law and order.
Each episode of the game will lead the player to explore different crime scenes, collecting evidence, solving puzzles, interviewing characters and presenting the case to the magistrate for judgement. Will Fielding's fledgling police force gain the public's trust through successful convictions of hardened criminals? Only if the player, as Fielding's key Runner, can prove who did it…
'Bow Street Runner' is designed to be historically accurate and therefore the game's content and its setting may not be suitable for younger players.
(I shouldn't be so excited to find cat-intestine condoms and Georgian love toys in a game...)
You can play online, it's for free, but image heavy. Dial-uppers, beware.
BOW STREET RUNNER
"Bow Street Runner" is the game to go with the TV series "City of Vice", which was fantastic, great, amazing, brilliant, woof. It's set in London's Covent Garden in the 1750s. With crime and vice running at very high levels, and before the organised police force existed in England, local magistrates formed the Bow Street Runners and began to impose law and order.
Each episode of the game will lead the player to explore different crime scenes, collecting evidence, solving puzzles, interviewing characters and presenting the case to the magistrate for judgement. Will Fielding's fledgling police force gain the public's trust through successful convictions of hardened criminals? Only if the player, as Fielding's key Runner, can prove who did it…
'Bow Street Runner' is designed to be historically accurate and therefore the game's content and its setting may not be suitable for younger players.
(I shouldn't be so excited to find cat-intestine condoms and Georgian love toys in a game...)