As Miss Marceau, the assistant manager of the Orient Express, solve puzzles, interview passengers, search compartments and gather forensic evidence to help temporarily indisposed Hercule Poi... Read allAs Miss Marceau, the assistant manager of the Orient Express, solve puzzles, interview passengers, search compartments and gather forensic evidence to help temporarily indisposed Hercule Poirot solve a paradoxical murder on the train.As Miss Marceau, the assistant manager of the Orient Express, solve puzzles, interview passengers, search compartments and gather forensic evidence to help temporarily indisposed Hercule Poirot solve a paradoxical murder on the train.
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Those disappointed by the 2010 version will find this PC game done four years earlier fascinating because you get to hear Suchet doing a traditional version of the story. The game faithfully adapts the story and draws from the novel and the 1974 movie version but throws in some twists for the benefit of those who know the story. Rather than having the gameplayer act out Poirot, the gameplayer becomes a new character for the story, Antoinette Marceau, a representative of the line who gets Poirot aboard (she takes the place of Monsieur Bouc, who is referred to as her superiority). Because Poirot is injured when the train stopped abruptly, the player as Antoinette does all the legwork of interviewing the suspects and being forced to handle new challenges unique to the game and then report back to Poirot for guidance (Suchet BTW really shows how he is in a class of acting beyond the voice artists used for the other roles. Some of them, like the voice of Countess Andrenyi sound downright embarrassing). In the end, it is still Suchet as Poirot who gets to deliver the "classic" ending of the story to the assembled suspects (which we did not get to see him do in the BBC version) but wait, there's actually one final unexpected twist, a "third solution" that i think will surprise first-time players of the game and it in the end manages to work perfect in the context of the traditional version of the story.
The game play requires many hours to get through but it's not too difficult. I recommend it to Christie fans for the thrill of hearing Suchet do Poirot the "right" way in this story in contrast to the off-beat version of the 2010 BBC filmed adaptation.
I experienced every emotion in an hour and a half!
David Suchet lived and breathed this one and it is evident throughout.
I feel you need to be a certain age before you truly understand both Agatha Christie and Hercules Poirot and I am now at that age.
Rewatching each series from start to finish has been an absolute joy, Murder on the orient hit differently though.
It had an entirely different feel to the past episodes and helps the viewer to truly understand the mental anguish Poirot experiences when solving these cases.
Bravo Poirot your best performance 😌
Did you know
- TriviaIn a scene early in the game, two characters in the dining car are conversing. As the train heads into a tunnel, the word "Froy" appears on the window beside them. This is a reference to another mystery set aboard a train, Alfred Hitchcock's Une femme disparaît (1938).
- GoofsWhen Antoinette obtains Pierre Michels passport, the image used for the game is a current French passport with European Union crest on it. The game was set in the 1934 long before the European Union was even formed.
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Hercule Poirot: [Madmoiselle Marceau is about to fall off a cliff]
[In Madmoiselle Marceau's head]
Hercule Poirot: The "student of crime" gives up on a case so easily?
- ConnectionsReferenced in Kill the Rapists
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