Poirot boards a train known as the Orient Express from Istanbul heading towards London. The plot of the Orient Express is classic. Now that we’ve got the token “Save Poirot!” speech out of the way by a guy who hasn’t watched TV since he moved from England (IRONY!), it’s time to look at Murder on the Orient Express and see if as good a game as it is a book. This act alone deserves high praise as I’d like to think of gamers restoring their reputation as intelligentsia rather than the “OMG! Sony RULZ! I’m so 133T! ROTFLAMO!” the audience has degenerated into. They also did this with And Then there Were None. This is one of the most influential and famous books ever written, and this insert ensures a lot of gamers who have never picked up a Christie novel will be hooked on her writing. I can’t tell you how great an idea this is, and I wish more gaming companies would do this. The final extra provided by Dreamcatcher for this game was an unabridged copy of the original Christie novel. If you’re a fan of the series, I’d suggest writing, emailing, or calling A&E and asking them to restore funding for the show as the BBC can’t do it alone. This means this video game is the only way to see, er, HEAR Suchet’s Poirot is his most famous case. Ah for the days when A&E was one of the elitist channels, no? This is especially unfortunate as one of the tales that Suchet never got to do was Murder on the Orient Express. I guess A&E needed more money for their usual high class intellectual fare like Dog, the Bounty Hunter. Needless to say this has left long time Suchet, Christie, and Poirot fans pretty upset as the show was quite popular. Suchet has played Poirot for 15 years straight, starting first in 1989 on PBS’s MYSTERY! series and going until this year when A&E unexpectedly and dramatically pulled funding for the BBC’s Poirot series, with 12 Poirot adventures left to film. Now for those of you unaware of this actor, he is as synonymous with Poirot as Christopher Reeve is with Superman. The most interesting aspect I learned about this game during production was that David Suchet would be voicing Poirot. It’s been made into films and single handedly lifted the Orient Express into pop culture forever. After And Then There Were None was announced as a video game, there was little doubt that MotOE was next. It features her most famous character Hercule Poirot, a stout Belgian detective with a well maintained mustache.
Murder on the Orient Express is one of the most famous murder mysteries ever written and is arguably Dame Agatha Christie’s most famous work.
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