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    Martin Mystère: Operation Dorian Gray is a 2005 point-and-click adventure game based on the Italian comic book series Martin Mystère. The player assumes the role of Martin Mystère, an expert in various fields of science and history, who is investigating the murder of a respected scientist. The gameplay involves searching environments for items to solve logic puzzles to progress the story. While stylistically faithful to the comics, the game received negative reviews for having illogical puzzles, a confusing story, and outdated gameplay mechanics.

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    Martin Mystère: Operation Dorian Gray is a 2005 point-and-click adventure game based on the Italian comic book series Martin Mystère. The player assumes the role of Martin Mystère, an expert in various fields of science and history, who is investigating the murder of a respected scientist. The gameplay involves searching environments for items to solve logic puzzles to progress the story. While stylistically faithful to the comics, the game received negative reviews for having illogical puzzles, a confusing story, and outdated gameplay mechanics.

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    Martin Mystère: Operation Dorian Gray is a 2005 point-and-click adventure game based on the Italian comic book series Martin Mystère. The player assumes the role of Martin Mystère, an expert in various fields of science and history, who is investigating the murder of a respected scientist. The gameplay involves searching environments for items to solve logic puzzles to progress the story. While stylistically faithful to the comics, the game received negative reviews for having illogical puzzles, a confusing story, and outdated gameplay mechanics.

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    Martin Mystère

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    Martin Mystère: Operation Dorian Gray is a 2005 point-and-click adventure game based on the Italian comic book series Martin Mystère. The player assumes the role of Martin Mystère, an expert in various fields of science and history, who is investigating the murder of a respected scientist. The gameplay involves searching environments for items to solve logic puzzles to progress the story. While stylistically faithful to the comics, the game received negative reviews for having illogical puzzles, a confusing story, and outdated gameplay mechanics.

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    Martin Mystère: Operation Dorian Gray

    Martin Mystère: Operation Dorian Gray (known as "Crime Stories: From the Files of Martin Mystere"
    in North America), is the only video game adaptation of the Italian sci-fi detective comic-book
    franchise called Martin Mystère, starring a detective and his assistant, Java. It is a point-and-click
    adventure game, published in 2005 by The Adventure Company in North America and GMX Media in
    Europe.

    Plot
    The player assumes the role of a young private investigator named Martin Mystère, who is currently
    investigating a brutal murder of a respected scientist, archaeologist and experienced FBI agent named
    Professor Eulemberg.

    An expert in various fields of science, the occult, and history, Martin Mystère, brainchild of Alfredo
    Castelli, has been gracing Italian comic books with his enigmatic presence and adroit archeological
    skills for over twenty years. The character's popularity has also prompted an adaptation for a
    children's cartoon, which is currently enjoying Canadian television's number one spot. Similar to the
    exploits of Sherlock Holmes, Martin's expeditions lead him to uncover the hidden, the unknowable,
    the paranormal, the ancient -- and much like the adventurous Indiana Jones, bring a little piece of it
    home.

    Martin has kept busy laying these rather fantastic claims to fame: he discovered who really built
    Stonehenge, the identity of the Man in the Iron Mask, and the true nature of the Werewolf, the
    Vampire, the Golem and the Loch Ness Monster. He has encountered King Arthur, unmasked Santa
    Claus, and read the Necronomicon. (The Necronomicon is described as a book of arcane knowledge
    and ritual magic, the reading of which causes madness and death.)

    In the preview, Martin's presence is required at the villa of a certain Professor Eulemberg, an MIT
    research scientist who was found murdered. Problem is, his wife Diana is out, and he's only wearing
    his slippers and bathrobe, and his car is currently at the garage being worked on. Your tasks are to
    find the missing wardrobe key, get appropriately attired, and find the number to the mechanic so you
    can get Martin on his merry way to the villa.

    The graphics are stylistically pleasing, and no doubt true to the comic's representation.

    During your adventure, you will encounter more friends like Angie and Travis, and Martin's old
    nemesis, Jinx. The Operation Dorian Gray story itself is based on one of the comics, though adapted
    to provide a more substantial gameplay experience. However, for the many who have never read the
    comics, this game looks to be a nice introduction, requiring no previous familiarity with the source
    material.

    Gameplay
    The gameplay is standard for graphic adventure games: search for items in order to solve logic
    puzzles.

    Development
    Development for the game began around 2002. Most of the time was invested on the storyboard,
    which was heavily based on the original comic strips of Martin Mystère. The models for the graphics
    started as layouts on paper. The models were output in Realtime 3D with octagonal views and pre-
    rendered backgrounds (Similar to Druuna: Morbus Gravis and Syberia)[2] and animated with 3DS
    Max. The game uses Direct3D retained mode that has been discontinued by Microsoft so there is no
    compatibility with newer Windows systems.
    Critical reception
    Computer Gaming Magazine gave a scathing review describing the game as "tragic", adding that it
    was too over-enthusiastic. IGN deemed it "generic"and GameSpot called it "archaic".Game Chronicles
    thought the puzzles were illogical and the story didn't make sense.

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