Linda Brown: Interactive Story vs Orwell: Keeping an Eye on You
Linda Brown: Interactive Story
Linda Brown: Interactive Story is The Other Guys' forey into the interactive storytelling business after their pretty good sucess with the Sherlock-themed hidden objects game, Sherlock Holmes: Lost Detective. Similar to the latter, this game features an intriguing and immersive, romance-and-mystery-filled story where you'll be playing as Linda Brown herself. Meet a host of interesting characters (and you can even date some of them), travel to various locations as you follow the trail of clues, and make important decisions that will change the path of your narrative.However, unlike games like Episode or Choices, Linda Brown: Interactive Story has a gameplay that is a lot similar to any of the games Telltale Games produced. This means that characters in the game will remember your reactions or responses and act accordingly the next time you meet.
The only major downside in this game is that, like Episodes and Choices, there are special "premium decisions" that you can make to further deepen the storyline, but the diamonds needed to buy these special decisions can be pretty costly - $3 per premium decision. Due to this, it might be great to have the option of earning diamonds by watching video ads.
Overall though, Linda Brown: Interactive Story is still a very well-written interactive story that doesn't only have romantic elements but also an intriguing mystery that rivals most hidden objects games. If you enjoy a good mystery with a dash of romance, this is the game you should play.
Orwell: Keeping an Eye on You
Orwell: Keeping an Eye on You is set in a dystopian future society where apparently the all-seeing "Big Brother" top-secret governmental security program, named Orwell, has become a reality and his sole and direct handler is you! With all the information, unknowingly supplied to Orwell and hence, to you by the individuals within a fictional city, you'll need to weed out the noise and find the important information that is related to the recent series of terror attacks. These information will then be relayed to security forces who will then carry out the necessary action. So, the information you supply will affect the lives of some or perhaps even all of the people in your city.In some way, Orwell: Keeping an Eye on You is a game that is designed to make you experience what it'd be like to be one of those hapless sims who are just going about their day without knowing how much of their personal information have been harvested by the government, even if it's for the greater good, and how these very info can sometimes help or mislead government officials to take excessive counter-action.