The main storyline is delivered through comic book styled panels with fantastic artwork, drawing parallels to some of the top tier hand-drawn works intended for an adult audience. However, the gloss doesn't last too long and minor plot developments are handled with almost characterless by comparison profiles. Playing as three female characters with their own professional interest in the unravelling murder mystery is a superficial adjustment and has little bearing on the gameplay, though does allow for areas to be utilised in multiple ways for varying objectives.
This week’s ‘Deal of the Week’ promotion on Windows Phone 7 sees the surprisingly under-populated Hidden Object genre receive some of the attention. James Patterson Women’s Murder Club: Death in Scarlet, a spine-tingling murder mystery, is available at a reduced price now, and for one week only.
Pocket Gamer - Here in the UK there used to be a weekly programme called Crime Watch aimed at those community-minded individuals who enjoy helping the police out by tracking down murderers and con artists.
The members of James Patterson’s Women’s Murder Club are a step up from this ‘call in worried about next-door’ kind of crime-stopper. Instead, they take investigations into their own hands, helping out the police at every stage of the investigation.
Games based upon the novels of James Patterson have become remarkably popular in recent years. With a number of releases across many formats – including PC and Nintendo DS – the series comes to Windows Phone 7, beginning back at the start with James Patterson Women’s Murder Club: Death in Scarlet. While the story is the same as on other formats, the gameplay is an altogether different situation.
