''Jack the Ripper'' is an adventure video game, based upon the unidentified serial killer
Jack the Ripper. The game was released for
Microsoft Windows
Windows is a group of several proprietary graphical operating system families developed and marketed by Microsoft. Each family caters to a certain sector of the computing industry. For example, Windows NT for consumers, Windows Server for serv ...
in 2004. It was developed by Galilea Games and published by
The Adventure Company
The Adventure Company was a Canadian video game developer and a former publishing division of DreamCatcher Interactive. It was sold to THQ Nordic GmbH in 2011 following DreamCatcher's parent (JoWooD Entertainment) assets being sold after entering A ...
.
The game is set in
New York
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* New York (state), a state in the northeastern United States
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Film and television
* '' ...
in 1901, where James Palmer, a reporter of the newspaper ''New York Today'', is investigating a set of murders similar to those of "
Jack the Ripper" in
Whitechapel thirteen years earlier; the murders turn out to be the work of the actual Ripper.
[Woods and Baddeley, p. 75]
Reception
The game received "mixed" reviews according to the
review aggregation website
Metacritic.
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References
External links
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2004 video games
Adventure games
Point-and-click adventure games
Microïds games
The Adventure Company games
Video games about Jack the Ripper
Video games developed in France
Video games set in New York City
Windows games
Windows-only games
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