Detective Barbie: The Mystery Cruise
Players have the chance to join "Team Barbie Detective" in Mattel Interactive's Detective Barbie: The Mystery Cruise. Like the earlier PC releases Detective Barbie and Detective Barbie 2, this game is a…
Detective Barbie: The Mystery Cruise is an adventure developed by Runecraft, released 20 November 2000 on PlayStation.
What Detective Barbie: The Mystery Cruise is
Detective Barbie: The Mystery Cruise is an adventure game developed by Runecraft and released in 2000. It was published by Mattel Media. It is available on PlayStation only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Three pieces of valuable artwork have been stolen from a cruise ship's art gallery. Now it's up to Detective Barbie to catch the brazen art thief. To catch the thief, Barbie will search for clues throughout the ship and also on three tropical islands equipped with gadgets, the most important being the infra-red lipstick. The infra-red lipstick reveals clues when Barbie looks through it. Barbie can also speak to the passengers of the cruise ship in an attempt to get information on the case. Barbie can even take a break from her formidable detective work by racing her friend on jet skis in the water or air racers in the sky. The jet ski mini-game is the usual get to the finish line first…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are mystery. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
Where it sits in the Barbie series
Detective Barbie: The Mystery Cruise is the 43rd of 106 entries we hold in the Barbie series. The next entry was Barbie as Princess Bride in 2000.
What it launched against
Detective Barbie: The Mystery Cruise launched on 20 November 2000, within three weeks of Counter-Strike, Escape from Monkey Island, Jet Grind Radio and The Operative: No One Lives Forever.
Released around the same time: Counter-Strike, Escape from Monkey Island, Jet Grind Radio, The Operative: No One Lives Forever.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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