(PC) Tex Murphy 3: Under A Killing Moon (4-CD) (1994)

Atton · #1 06-18-2009, 10:39 PM

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Under a Killing Moon (1994) is the third installment in the Tex Murphy series of adventure games produced by Access Software. In Under a Killing Moon Tex again fights the forces of evil as he tries to stop a dangerous cult from destroying the world. Under a Killing Moon combined full motion video (FMV) cutscenes with a 3D virtual world to explore. Under a Killing Moon was in its day one of the largest video games ever, arriving on four CD-ROMs (although some material was duplicated among the four to reduce the amount of swapping).
An Under a Killing Moon movie was in the works starring Soleil Moon Frye in a prominent role. Frye appeared on The Jenny Jones Show to plug the movie during its early production stages, but the project was ultimately scrapped.
After its creators reacquired the rights to the series, it was re-released on Good Old Games on June 16, 2009.
Setting
Like all Tex Murphy games, Under a Killing Moon takes place in post-World War III San Francisco in December 2042. After the devastating events of WWIII, many major cities have been rebuilt (as is the case with New San Francisco), though certain areas still remain as they were before the war (as in Old San Francisco). WWIII also left another mark on the world: the formation of two classes of citizens. Specifically, some people have developed a natural resistance against radioactivity, and thus are normal or "Norms" -- everybody else are Mutants in some form. Tensions between the two groups have risen dramatically since the end of the war, and Norms and Mutants usually do not get along. The Mutants are usually forced to live in the run-down areas of cities such as Old San Francisco. Tex lives on Chandler Ave in Old San Francisco. All his friends are Mutants, though he himself is a Norm.
Plot
In Under a Killing Moon the player plays as Tex Murphy, Private Investigator. Tex has hit rock bottom. Recently divorced from his wife Sylvia, out of work, low on cash, and living in a rundown part of Old San Francisco, Tex realizes that he has to get his act together. Tex sets out to hunt for work. He finds it quickly once he discovers that the pawnshop across the street from his apartment has been robbed. Tex quickly solves the case, and feels his luck has begun to change. Then a mysterious woman calling herself Countess Renier, having heard good things about Tex, hires him to find her missing statuette.
Everything seems great at first. The Countess is promising to pay Tex more money than he's seen in his life. But everything quickly goes downhill when Tex finds himself unwittingly involved in the affairs of a dangerous cult.
Under a Killing Moon has many unique characters, and stars several well-known actors such as Brian Keith, Margot Kidder, Russell Means and the voice of James Earl Jones.
Gameplay
The virtual world
Under a Killing Moon was the first Tex Murphy game to fully utilize interactive 3D environments. The player controls Tex from a first person perspective. The virtual world allows full freedom of movement, and as such allows the player to look for clues in every nook and cranny. Though action games with 3D environments and first-person perspectives had been popularized by Doom the previous year, it was unusual at the time to see these characteristics in an adventure game. It is also notable that these graphics did not use raycasting techniques like Doom, but true texture-mapped polygons that allowed players to look in all directions, and ran in resolutions up to 640x480.
Conversations
Under a Killing Moon was the first Tex Murphy game to stray from the traditional adventure game dialogue format of providing options that showed exactly what the player's character would say. Instead, descriptions of the dialogue choices were given, providing some mystery to what Tex would say.

Front/Back/Cd covers

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Genre: Adventure
System Requirements:

386/25 MHz Processor or better
MS-DOS
4 MB RAM
SVGA display (VESA compliant)
Sound card (supports all major sound boards)
2X CD-ROM drive
8 MB available hard disk space
Keyboard/mouse/speakers

Image Format: ISO 4 disc
Archive Format: Winrar/Compressing Method Best
DISC 1 File Size: 252MB compressed / 423MB decompressed
DISC 2 File Size: 383MB compressed / 592MB decompressed
DISC 3 File Size: 390MB compressed / 619MB decompressed
DISC 4 File Size: 362MB compressed / 608MB decompressed

Install Instructions DosBox
1 - Mount the game in daemon tools letter F

And Type this

Mount C C:\
Mount F F:\ -t cdrom
F:
Install
When you start the game for the first time choose auto detect for sound

2 - In the folder "Tex_Murphy_Under_A_Killing_Moon_Patch" in the archive of CD1 there is 4 patches 2 for sound and 2 for the game.

If you use Dosbox you only need 2 of them I think so estract "ukm4_195" and "ukm4_197" and place the files you get in the installation directory

3 - Every time you want to play the game type this

Mount F F:\ -t cdrom
Mount C C:\
C:
CD MOON
TEX3
And if you wan't to play with no cd's then check this guide
http://www.fourthlaw.com/2007/04/03/...-guide-no-cds/

Disc 1

Part 1: 97 657KB

Code:

http://rapidshare.com/files/246041341/UAKMD1.part1.rar

Part 2: 97 657KB

Code:

http://rapidshare.com/files/246038085/UAKMD1.part2.rar

Part 3: 63 467KB

Code:

http://rapidshare.com/files/246039461/UAKMD1.part3.rar

Disc 2

Part 1: 97 657KB

Code:

http://rapidshare.com/files/246049285/UAKMD2.part1.rar

Part 2: 97 657KB

Code:

http://rapidshare.com/files/246043409/UAKMD2.part2.rar

Part 3: 97 657KB

Code:

http://rapidshare.com/files/246045465/UAKMD2.part3.rar

Part 4: 97 657KB

Code:

http://rapidshare.com/files/246047400/UAKMD2.part4.rar

Part 5: 1 697KB

Code:

http://rapidshare.com/files/246047440/UAKMD2.part5.rar

Disc 3

Part 1: 97 657KB

Code:

http://rapidshare.com/files/246056982/UAKMD3.part1.rar

Part 2: 97 657KB

Code:

http://rapidshare.com/files/246051120/UAKMD3.part2.rar

Part 3: 97 657KB

Code:

http://rapidshare.com/files/246052954/UAKMD3.part3.rar

Part 4: 97 657KB

Code:

http://rapidshare.com/files/246054799/UAKMD3.part4.rar

Part 5: 9 513KB

Code:

http://rapidshare.com/files/246054994/UAKMD3.part5.rar

Disc 4

Part 1: 97 657KB

Code:

http://rapidshare.com/files/246058755/UAKMD4.part1.rar

Part 2: 97 657KB

Code:

http://rapidshare.com/files/246060600/UAKMD4.part2.rar

Part 3: 97 657KB

Code:

http://rapidshare.com/files/246062132/UAKMD4.part3.rar

Part 4: 78 483KB

Code:

http://rapidshare.com/files/246063412/UAKMD4.part4.rar

Password

Code:

http://snesorama.us

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gladiator · #2 06-19-2009, 06:28 AM

Got this one.
Great game.
Good upload (+rep).

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