Mystery in Game
By Tina Benitez -- Playthings, 1/1/2007
Based on the 1934 mystery by Agatha Christie, Murder on the Orient Express, the new PC game from Dreamcatcher, Toronto, stays true to the original storyline with one addition—a new character, Antoinette Marceau, who works alongside Belgian detective Hercule Poirot to investigate a murder aboard the ill-fated train, heading from Istanbul to Paris.
London-born actor David Suchet, who has played Christie's Poirot in television series for more than 15 years, takes on the role once again by providing vocals for the game. Suchet recently spoke to Playthings and says that working on a video game was a vast shift from working on stage or Hollywood films and TV. "The choices and decisions that the players have to make are so various," he says. "They really do have an opportunity to solve this crime for themselves—with my help, of course."
Dreamcatcher is currently in talks to make two more Poirot mysteries as games. "I think that for this game the audience will be similar to the TV audience that watches Poirot," he says. "This can range from 9 year olds to 90 year olds. I think that women are still the core viewers, and will, I think, be more interested than men. But who knows. Every man likes a mystery!"
