Its Like Coming Home (Spoiler Free First Half Hour Review)

Picture the scene A young teenage boy with his first PC Trying to free up ESM to get this new fancy interactive movie to work. The air is blue with a lot of swearing and a lot of time passes before the moons align and the Gods of PC computing in the 90s smile on our young hero and the Access Interactive Movie logo fills the screen.

From that moment I've loved Tex games. They were fiddly, they requires a beast of a PC to run and a lot of computer know how to get working properly.

But boy were they worth it. From UAKM through PD and on to OS I loved every minute of playing them. The crazy hard puzzles, CJ's snappy dialogue and the feeling you really were a PI in 21st century San Francisco. I loved it all.

Then years went by and there were no Tex Murphy games, there was no Access, there was doom and Half-life and then COD and L4D but the thinking man/womans games just did not exist in main stream game development.

Then two years ago everything changed. Kickstarter became a thing and Tim Schafer happened. Suddenly there was a chance, a way to bring my favourite character back from the grave and I admit a spent rather more money on the Kickstarter than a rational man in his 30s should have done.

And then we waited. Games take time to develop and get right but today at 8:30 am local time I was transported back to the that room and that time when I had first played UAKM and it was glorious.

I've only played the first half hour of TTE, I had to go to work, but its exactly right. From the glorious intro to Tex's dialogue and Chris's delivery its absolutely spot on.

I can't say if this will be an awesome adventure game as good as PD but from what I've played so far. It perfectly recreates the Tex world. Yes it's probably nostalgia talking, but hell it really does feel like coming home.

Thank you Chris and BFG and thank you to all my fellow backers. Tex is back and so far he is better than ever.