Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?
Players take on the role of gumshoe and explore the globe tracking down crafty criminals through guided tours of various locales and beautifully painted 360-degree panoramas. The player must use their…
Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? is a point-and-click developed by Broderbund, released 14 November 1996 on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? is
Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? is a point-and-click game developed by Broderbund and released in 1996. It is available on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Players take on the role of gumshoe and explore the globe tracking down crafty criminals through guided tours of various locales and beautifully painted 360-degree panoramas. The player must use their knowledge to find Carmen Sandiego or any of her innumerable henchmen, all with the help of a searchable database within the game that contains: video clips; essays on each area's economics, politics and culture; maps; and photographs.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are educational. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Carmen Sandiego series
Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? is the 16th of 36 entries we hold in the Carmen Sandiego series. It arrived 2 years after Carmen Sandiego: Junior Detective Edition. The next entry was Where in the U.S.A. Is Carmen Sandiego? in 1996.
What it launched against
Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? launched on 14 November 1996, within three weeks of Tomb Raider, Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!, Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain and Twisted Metal 2.
Released around the same time: Tomb Raider, Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!, Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain, Twisted Metal 2.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
Screenshots
All media
Parents
Quick answers
Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? — frequently asked questions
When did Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? come out?
If you like this
