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About the Story
You are Jane O'Connor, a professional spy employed by Rent-A-Spy. Your boss, Mr. Graham Darcy, has assigned you a new mission: secretly infiltrate Meramax's research facility and return with hard evidence proving they're developing a warfare virus. Be careful! Leave no traces of your visit!
Awards
15th Place - 8th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (2002)
Ratings and Reviews
| Average Rating:    Number of Reviews Written by IFDB Members: 1 |
This game placed near the middle of IFCOMP 2002. In this game, you play a spy who must infiltrate a building, steal information, but leave no trace.
The leaving no trace bit is interesting, similar to Sub Rosa and the orange room in The Recruit. However, all of the puzzles are difficult, as they only admit one solution, even if other reasonable solutions are avilable. Also, the game is inconsistent in what it considers as leaving a trace or not.
The writing was descriptive and the game would be thrilling if not for the frequent interruptions due to odd puzzles.
2 Off-Site Reviews
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This reminded me in some ways of an Andy Phillips game -- Heroine's Mantle, say -- but without the mad verve. It does have the persnickety puzzles that have unbelievable solutions, and the somewhat sketchy implementation. There were a number of things I did that I think shouldn't really have worked; I don't, for instance, believe it is actually possible to open elevator doors in the way this game's PC does.
-- Emily Short
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>INVENTORY - Paul O'Brian writes about interactive fiction
With some editing, further testing, and some premise doctoring (perhaps making the PC something like a reporter, which would be quite a bit more believable than a spy you can look up in the phone book), this could be a pretty enjoyable piece of IF. For now, it's more an example of unfulfilled potential.
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Game Details
Current Version: 1
License: Freeware
Development System: Inform 6
Baf's Guide ID: 1929
IFID: ZCODE-1-020923-2EF0
TUID: n77t9ylassakw4nr
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Recommended Lists
Rent-A-Spy appears in the following Recommended Lists:Spy games by MathBrush
Games involving espionage, whether military or industrial. I've tried to put a few especially good games first, but the rest are in no particular order. This list includes games of excellent quality as well as games of lower quality.
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