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Hector: Badge of Carnage!

When a hostage crisis erupts in the centre of Clappers Wreake, only one man has the diplomatic finesse to defuse a simmering situation before it boils over into a stew of butchery and bloodshed: Detective…

82 27 April 2011

Hector: Badge of Carnage! is an adventure developed by Straandlooper Animation, released 27 April 2011 on iOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Hector: Badge of Carnage! is

Hector: Badge of Carnage! is an adventure game developed by Straandlooper Animation and released in 2011. It is available on iOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

Hector: Badge of Carnage is an episodic graphic adventure based on the adventures of Hector, a hard-nosed and soft-bellied Detective Inspector. It was created by Dean Burke, developed by Straandlooper and published by Telltale Games beginning in 2010.
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are comedy and thriller. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Hector: Badge of Carnage! holds a critic score of 82 out of 100. That places it above 76% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2011 averaged 68, so it scored 14 points above the year average.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for 1.8 GHz Pentium 4 or equivalent, 2 GB of RAM and ATI or NVidia card w/ 256 MB RAM. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.

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What it launched against

Hector: Badge of Carnage! launched on 27 April 2011, within three weeks of Portal 2, The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, L.A. Noire and Terraria. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.

Released around the same time: Portal 2, The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, L.A. Noire, Terraria.

Cheats and codes

We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Hector: Badge of Carnage! yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.

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Official trailer

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Quick answers

Hector: Badge of Carnage! — frequently asked questions

When did Hector: Badge of Carnage! come out?
Hector: Badge of Carnage! was released on 27 April 2011 for iOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What are the minimum PC requirements for Hector: Badge of Carnage!?
At minimum, Hector: Badge of Carnage! needs 1.8 GHz Pentium 4 or equivalent, 2 GB of RAM, ATI or NVidia card w/ 256 MB RAM graphics, 500 Mb of storage.
How many GB is Hector: Badge of Carnage!?
The PC version needs about 0.5 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("500 Mb"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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