2004 video game
2004 video game
Jack the Ripper is an adventure video game, based upon the unidentified serial killer Jack the Ripper . The game was released for Microsoft Windows in 2004. It was developed by Galilea Games and published by The Adventure Company .
The game is set in New York in 1901, where James Palmer, a reporter of the newspaper New York Today , is investigating a set of murders similar to those of "Jack the Ripper " in Whitechapel thirteen years earlier; the murders turn out to be the work of the actual Ripper.[2]
Reception
The game received "mixed" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic .[3]
References
^ Adams, David (January 29, 2004). "Jack the Ripper Ships" . IGN . Ziff Davis . Retrieved February 15, 2022 .
^ Woods and Baddeley, p. 75
^ a b "Jack the Ripper for PC Reviews" . Metacritic . Red Ventures . Retrieved February 16, 2022 .
^ Dickens, Evan (February 18, 2004). "Jack the Ripper review" . Adventure Gamers . Retrieved February 16, 2022 .
^ "Review: Jack the Ripper". Computer Games Magazine . No. 164. theGlobe.com . July 2004. p. 69.
^ Cook, Denice (May 2004). "Jack the Ripper" (PDF) . Computer Gaming World . No. 238. Ziff Davis. p. 89. Retrieved February 16, 2022 .
^ Osborne, Scott (January 30, 2004). "Jack the Ripper Review" . GameSpot . Red Ventures. Retrieved February 16, 2022 .
^ Harker, Carla (March 10, 2004). "GameSpy: Jack the Ripper" . GameSpy . IGN Entertainment. Retrieved February 16, 2022 .
^ David, Mike (February 10, 2004). "Jack the Ripper - PC - Review" . GameZone . Archived from the original on September 30, 2008. Retrieved February 16, 2022 .
^ Krause, Staci (February 11, 2004). "Jack the Ripper" . IGN . Ziff Davis. Retrieved February 16, 2022 .
^ Superpanda (March 9, 2004). "Test: Jack L'Eventreur : New-York 1901" . Jeuxvideo.com (in French). Webedia. Retrieved February 16, 2022 .
^ Saltzman, Marc (May 2004). "Jack the Ripper" . PC Gamer . Vol. 11, no. 5. Imagine Media . p. 75. Archived from the original on March 15, 2006. Retrieved February 16, 2022 .
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