9.4 /10 1 Votes
Engine Cinématique evo2 Initial release date 1991 Mode Single-player video game | 4.7/5 My Abandonware Release date(s) 1991 Genre Adventure game | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Developer Delphine Software International Platforms Amiga, DOS, Atari ST, MS-DOS, AmigaOS Publishers Delphine Software International, U.S. Gold, Interplay Entertainment, Erbe Software, SA, Kixx Similar Delphine Software International games, Adventure games | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Amiga longplay cruise for a corpse
Cruise for a Corpse (orig. Croisière pour un cadavre) is an adventure game from Delphine Software International, made for the Amiga, Atari ST and IBM PC.
Contents
The game is designed as a murder investigation. The player assumed the role of Raoul Dusentier, a man invited to spend some time on Niklos Karaboudjan's boat. Quickly after arriving, Karaboudjan is murdered, and the investigation begins.
The game uses many references to French and Belgian pop culture. Karaboudjan is the name of The Adventures of Tintin character Captain Haddock's cargo ship in the comic The Crab with the Golden Claws. Just like in The Crab with the Golden Claws, crab cans are used to hide objects (in the comic they contain opium, whereas in the game they contain hand grenades).
The MS-DOS version is playable in ScummVM and DOSBox, while the Amiga version runs on UAE.
Reception
Computer Gaming World called Cruise for a Corpse "an admirable recipe for a classic adventure of murder most foul". The magazine liked the rotoscoped animation, but criticized the EGA graphics and "atrocious" code wheel-based copy protection, and concluded that while "Dedicated whodunit aficionados" would enjoy the game, "the general adventure gaming audience" would find it "tedious".