Still Life 2
Microids · 2011 · Adventure, Point & Click, Female Protagonist, Crime, Mystery
PC
Mixed45% · 47867Metacritic
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About Still Life 2
Who is hiding behind Mr. X? Still Life 2 reveals the long-awaited ending of Still Life and spells a new investigation for Agent Victoria McPherson.
In Fall 2008, Victoria is sent to Maine where Ellen Dunnigan's body has just been found. The modus operandi and the video sent to the police and press leave them in no doubt as to the killer's identity: the East Coast Torturer has struck again! No clues are picked up during the autopsy, as the serial killer painstakingly washed the body. Once again, the killer has not committed any errors.
From her motel room, Victoria comes across a report by Paloma Hernandez, the journalist covering all the crimes bearing the East Coast Torturer's signature. Hernandez has been highly critical of the FBI's and Victoria's lack of progress. That does not stop Hernandez from phoning and asking Victoria to meet her later that evening. Hernandez claims to have some so-called clues on the killer in her possession. Victoria flatly refuses. Just moments later, Paloma is kidnapped by the Torturer…
Still Life 2 remains true to the spirit of its first installment, but now allows you to play and manage two characters bound by the same fate. This time, the aim is to control two heroines, see the game from two complementary viewpoints and experience two different gameplays. Depending on whether you are playing Paloma Hernandez, the victim being hunted by the killer or Victoria McPherson, the FBI agent tracking him down, you can alternate between survival and investigation.
In Fall 2008, Victoria is sent to Maine where Ellen Dunnigan's body has just been found. The modus operandi and the video sent to the police and press leave them in no doubt as to the killer's identity: the East Coast Torturer has struck again! No clues are picked up during the autopsy, as the serial killer painstakingly washed the body. Once again, the killer has not committed any errors.
From her motel room, Victoria comes across a report by Paloma Hernandez, the journalist covering all the crimes bearing the East Coast Torturer's signature. Hernandez has been highly critical of the FBI's and Victoria's lack of progress. That does not stop Hernandez from phoning and asking Victoria to meet her later that evening. Hernandez claims to have some so-called clues on the killer in her possession. Victoria flatly refuses. Just moments later, Paloma is kidnapped by the Torturer…
Still Life 2 remains true to the spirit of its first installment, but now allows you to play and manage two characters bound by the same fate. This time, the aim is to control two heroines, see the game from two complementary viewpoints and experience two different gameplays. Depending on whether you are playing Paloma Hernandez, the victim being hunted by the killer or Victoria McPherson, the FBI agent tracking him down, you can alternate between survival and investigation.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
20 hours of pure bliss, this game is waay harder than the first and my notepad is loaded and happy :31 found this helpful
[b]Standalone review (not comparing to the first game):[/b] A whodunit that takes too much from TV magic (think CSI) to progress the story while not providing much of a whodunit to solve. You spend an extremely long time in a single location attempting to solve the "mystery", with flashbacks that will make no sense unless you've played the first game. Concepts start in the Saw genre, which could have been interesting if maintained. Instead, it shifts gears into "but THEN" and rapidly loses cohesion. Characters are not memorable, the 2nd female protagonist has no character growth at all despite the trauma she goes through (again, Saw... but complete failure at the concept), and the side characters have no personality to speak of. The inventory system creates unnecessary time padding, the movement and camera controls are often frustrating, and it's buggy, especially toward the end. If you don't save often, you are in for pain. And as I've not seen anyone mention this in other reviews: pacing! The game has extremely poor pacing, with multiple unnecessary twists and an ending that takes FAR too long to get to the obvious conclusion. Overall this is not a good game in any genre…1 found this helpful
Very buggy. Unfortunately I decided to fold halfway through the game.
Involves all the characters from Still Life, bring your pen and paper to play this game, you'll need it. Uses the killers forest home as a stage for the plot. I love a good house to solve a mystery in. This is the third installment, Post Mortem and Still Life preced this title.
I really liked the game from the start. The whole atmosphere and story was really nice and i really liked the style. But from the time of finding the bunker it started to be a real downer, the riddles began to be rather weird and illogical. But the really worst is, im pretty sure it is, a gamebreaking bug that makes you miss a phone call that you should get. I would really liked to play the game to the end, but it seems that i hit a deadend. Thats why i sadly cant recommend it.
The most slow, illogical, tedious and bug-ridden game I've played in years. Perhaps the worst point and click adventure ever. The gameplay suffers from some really terrible design choices (who the hell thought it is a good idea to have a limited inventory space??), awfully slow movement system, constant backtracking, stupid puzzles that make no sense, confusing UI and SO MANY BUGS AND GLITCHES that it is almost unplayable, unless you save every 2 minutes in a new slot. After the middle I just opened a walkthrough page and repeated all the steps because I was not going to waste any more time with this stupid game. Also, the more the story continued, the more boring and naive it got. In general, I can see that it has taken a lot of effort to create something more ambitious than the previous games in the series, but the final result is just awful. Completely lacks the mystery and mysticism of Post Mortem and Still Life and turns into a boring Saw-like serial killer slasher with no visual esthetics that just feels like torture to play. The only thing that is OK is the main menu music.
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