Agatha Christie: Evil Under the Sun
Famous detective Hercule Poirot is back in typical style, turning up at just the right time to begin an investigation into the murder of a famous actress during what should have been the start of a relaxing…
Agatha Christie: Evil Under the Sun is an adventure developed by AWE Productions, released 16 October 2007 on Wii and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Agatha Christie: Evil Under the Sun is
Agatha Christie: Evil Under the Sun is an adventure game developed by AWE Productions and released in 2007. It was published by The Adventure Company. It is available on Wii and PC (Microsoft Windows). It carries an ESRB T age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Famous detective Hercule Poirot is back in typical style, turning up at just the right time to begin an investigation into the murder of a famous actress during what should have been the start of a relaxing holiday. Taking on the role of Hercule Poirot, players can scour a stunning tropical island for clues and delve deeper into the mysterious relationships between over 20 unique characters to search out the killer...
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Agatha Christie series
Agatha Christie: Evil Under the Sun is the fourth of 16 entries we hold in the Agatha Christie series. It arrived 11 months after Agatha Christie: Murder on the Orient Express. The next entry was Agatha Christie: Peril at End House in 2007. Its critic score of 54 is 10 points below the series average of 64. The highest-rated entry is Agatha Christie: Death on the Nile at 84.
How it was received
Agatha Christie: Evil Under the Sun holds a critic score of 54 out of 100. That places it above 11% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2007 averaged 64, so it scored 10 points below the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 1.4 GHz Pentium® 3 Processor, 256 MB RAM and 64 MB DirectX® 9 Compatible Video Card. At 0GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 2GB.
What it launched against
Agatha Christie: Evil Under the Sun launched on 16 October 2007, within three weeks of Super Mario Galaxy, Portal, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare and Halo 3. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Super Mario Galaxy, Portal, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Halo 3.
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