If game crashes on some occasions, please run winsetup.exe then Advanced and change amount of memory to 20MB, should help

Several times the game crashed. When I type in John Smith in the computer. Also when I tried to phone and hang up (not having a phone number)
This was the message: An exception 0xC0000005 occured in ACWIN.EXE at EIP = 0x0043CBF1; programpointer is +6, ACI version 2.51.440, gtags (14,2)
AGS cannot continue, this exception was fatal. Please note down…. Notify CJ on the tech forum. (global script line 671)

I though was a good game although it did have some repetitive parts. I liked the fact that they had multiple endings.

The panel is right. This game, once groundbreaking, has not aged well. The writing is loose, and occasionally tone-deaf (I seriously suspected one totally innocuous character was going to betray me- nobody would write a character that saccharine without a twist... right? Wrong.) The puzzles are often completely nonsensical, often requiring an amount of backtracking that goes beyond tedious into frustrating.

The game is impressive in its scope, but if it was trimmed of the redundant back-and-forth, it would be a much shorter (but probably better) game.

This is the best dedective game made with AGS. It tells me beautiful graphics and musics isn't necessary if the concept is solid. I was scared at some scenes, i felt like i was playing Silent Hill in those scary scenes :) Very successful game.

One of the best game I never played! Great game!

One thing I forgot to mention that I liked about the game. The enviroment doesn't have titles that appear at the bottom when you move your cursor over it, and that can be a problem with some games. But with this game, nearly everything in the background had a separate discription when you examined it, and that's something I really apperciate in adventure games.

Warning: This review contains spoilers and harsh criticism.

I was very disappointed in this game. Despite all of the praise, each element of the game fell short of what makes a good adventure game, amatuer or otherwise.

Let's start off with the plot-related aspects of the game. The dialog has no wit, charm or creativity to it. It all feels incredibly generic. Likewise, the characters don't have distinct personality or voices. I can't imagine hardened cops speaking the way Jake and his boss do.

A plot doesn't necessarily have to be realistic to be enjoyable, especially for video games, but there are huge problems with the way The Order is portrayed. They leaves tons of bodies, clothing and clues laying around and they freely walk around in broad daylight wearing their cloaks. In real life, such a group would probably be shut down within a weeks time. Spoilers[hide]And at the end of the game, the members and Jake talk about how great and solid their plan is, when in actuality it is painfully simplistic. Poisoning a city's water supply is much, much harder than you might think. And blowing up police headquaters? The odds of them successfully doing that are very low indeed.[/hide]

Next, the puzzles, obviously a key component of adventure games. This may be the game's biggest failing. You're required to back track to solve many of the puzzles, and that's fine. The problem is the game rarely gives you any indication of where you're supposed to go, which leads to a lot of pointless wandering around unless you're using a walkthrough. In some instances, you progress to the next part of the game by leaving the room, then walking back in, which is entirely unnecessary.

For another thing, several of the puzzles are convoluted, and not in the good way that many adventure games use. The worst example is how you deal with the panther in the woods. Spoiler[hide]You have, A) A fully loaded functional gun. B) A metal pipe that could be used to strike the panther. C) A piece of chocolate that could conceivably be used to distract the panther. But instead of using any of these items, you have to go back to the apartment and scare a kid then pick up his whistle. You also can't solve the puzzle by using the whistle on the panther, you have to activate it in your inventory.[/hide] At one point in the game, you need to unwrap a candy bar, but instead of just doing this in your inventory, you [hide]have to acquire a device specifically made to unwrap things. Granted, you don't have to do anything special to get it, but it's still pretty silly.[/hide] There are also certain programming aspects that weren't needed, such as having to unlock your car every time you go into it and having to exactly hit the elevatory button to use it. Some of the environment details you need to utilize such as the water at the docks and the stick from the log are unclear.

As other posters have said, the graphics are weak, and inappropriate for a full-length game.

There were some parts I enjoyed. Examining the crime scenes and collecting evidence was fun. The close ups of the corpses were nice, and the fog in the game was well-done. The multiple endings were nice, because instead of offering players slightly different ways to do the same thing, they allowed the player to finish the game the way they wanted to finish it

Warning: This review contains spoilers and harsh criticism.

I was very disappointed in this game. Despite all of the praise, each element of the game fell short of what makes a good adventure game, amatuer or otherwise.

Let's start off with the plot-related aspects of the game. The dialog has no wit, charm or creativity to it. It all feels incredibly generic. Likewise, the characters don't have distinct personality or voices. I can't imagine hardened cops speaking the way Jake and his boss do.

A plot doesn't necessarily have to be realistic to be enjoyable, especially for video games, but there are huge problems with the way The Order is portrayed. They leaves tons of bodies, clothing and clues laying around and they freely walk around in broad daylight wearing their cloaks. In real life, such a group would probably be shut down within a weeks time. Spoilers[hide]And at the end of the game, the members and Jake talk about how great and solid their plan is, when in actuality it is painfully simplistic. Poisoning a city's water supply is much, much harder than you might think. And blowing up police headquaters? The odds of them successfully doing that are very low indeed.[/hide]

Next, the puzzles, obviously a key component of adventure games. This may be the game's biggest failing. You're required to back track to solve many of the puzzles, and that's fine. The problem is the game rarely gives you any indication of where you're supposed to go, which leads to a lot of pointless wandering around unless you're using a walkthrough. In some instances, you progress to the next part of the game by leaving the room, then walking back in, which is entirely unnecessary.

For another thing, several of the puzzles are convoluted, and not in the good way that many adventure games use. The worst example is how you deal with the panther in the woods. Spoiler[hide]You have, A) A fully loaded functional gun. B) A metal pipe that could be used to strike the panther. C) A piece of chocolate that could conceivably be used to distract the panther. But instead of using any of these items, you have to go back to the apartment and scare a kid then pick up his whistle. You also can't solve the puzzle by using the whistle on the panther, you have to activate it in your inventory.[/hide] At one point in the game, you need to unwrap a candy bar, but instead of just doing this in your inventory, you [hide]have to acquire a device specifically made to unwrap things. Granted, you don't have to do anything special to get it, but it's still pretty silly.[/hide] There are also certain programming aspects that weren't needed, such as having to unlock your car every time you go into it and having to exactly hit the elevatory button to use it. Some of the environment details you need to utilize such as the water at the docks and the stick from the log are unclear.

As other posters have said, the graphics are weak, and inappropriate for a full-length game.

There were some parts I enjoyed. Examining the crime scenes and collecting evidence was fun. The close ups of the corpses were nice, and the fog in the game was well-done. The multiple endings were nice, because instead of offering players slightly different ways to do the same thing, they allowed the player to finish the game the way they wanted to finish it.

Great story, tone, and music and that's about it.

The graphics were some of the worst I ever seen and didn't fit the game's story. The puzzles were illogical. Often you would have to click something several times, click on something else first, or click on an item that doesn't look like anything to get items and that would leave wandering around aimlessly because you think that what you need is somewhere else. There was way too much backtracking (especially going to the headquarters). Throughout the entire game you will complete something then you are supposed to go back to a previous location, but nothing in the game hints to where, leaving you completely lost.

After playing through Pleurghburg, I can't see what everyone is raving about. I mean, I acknowledge that alot of time and effort went into it and I appreciate that it's full-length and makes good use of the AGS engine. But all of the things that make a good adventure game are entirely absent, namely: good characters, believable story, and interesting puzzles.

The game really reminded me of the Manhunter series too. Those games also had lots of investigations of brutal murders, tons of gory closeups, walking around areas from confusing camera angles (like in the morgue), not to mention the people in brown robes. In fact, I would be surprised if this game WASN'T influenced by that series, but stranger things have happened.

Anyway, I found Pleurghburg to be very mediocre overall, EXCEPT for the music, which was possibly one of the only things that kept me playing it.