Catch A Killer is an interactive crime solving game by Sony Online Entertainment and best-selling author James Patterson .
In the game, you work as a partner of Patterson’s mystery novel character detective Alex Cross and visit different crime scenes, question witnesses and suspects, collect evidence, spend hours at the forensic lab for fingerprints and DNA match, and solve lot and lots of thrilling cases.
After a brief intro after joining the game, you will find yourself right at the center of a crime scene of the “little boy blue” case, in which the parents come home to find a dead babysitter and their son missing. You will have to search the crime scene thoroughly for clues. Once you find some clues, use your forensic kit for possible fingerprint or DNA sample that can lead to the identity or whereabouts of the killer and/or hostage. You will also need to interview and interrogate possible suspects to gather more leads. In every case, you will find yourself in a vicious cycle of search, investigate, and examination until you crack your case.
While working on a case, you will need to play several mini-games within the game to perform various tasks of crime solving like:
Tasks and mini games
Investigating crime scenes will be conducted in a search-and-find puzzle game where you must try to find clues. If you need help, you can also take the help of hints to aid you. After clues are found, you will use your forensic kit to analyze the items for possible leads.
Matching finger prints takes you to a jig-saw type puzzle game where you try to complete partial fingerprints to see whether they match the ones in the fingerprint database.
Matching DNA samples will take you to a fast-pace matching game.
Case files & case board
Once you find possible suspects or leads, you will proceed for highly interactive interviews/interrogation and take down notes and report to your partner.
Every task like searching crime scene, analysing items, or matching fingerprints will need energy to perform. All mini-games have a time-bonus feature, and you get more bonuses if you can complete a task before the bonus timer runs out. Completing various tasks will earn you different amounts coins, experience and items. It is hard to level up, but the rewards on level up are worth it.
Use the case board to view all the progress of each case, as well as the evidence you have discovered. Once a case is completed and closed, you will have the option to go to a new case. Some cases will bigger and more difficult to solve for which more experience detectives will be needed to work on it, or in short, there are level requirements for some cases.
Avatar and home customization
When you are not working on a case, you can take a break and throw your hard-earned money on clothing, accessories, furniture, electronics, and decors for your avatar and virtual home. You can invite friends to join your Club, and they can visit your house, exchange gifts as well as share bonuses. You can also hang out in the city and make friends with other rookie detective talk about cases and clues. The game has chat feature through which you can communicate friends while you are at home or in the city.
The game interface is easy to use and menus are self-explanatory. Game graphics is very good and so are the crime trailers of different cases. The gameplay is fun, thrilling and addicting. All in all, Catch a Killer is one of those games that Facebook users can sit back and let the thrill kill their time.
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