Fahrenheit / Indigo Prophecy

If you have a relatively recent PC, a Playstation 2 or an Xbox, and like aventure games, or simply great stories, please do yourself a favor and buy this game right now. It’s brilliant, innovative, and will actually make you think (and not just in the sense of solving puzzles)

Tycho from Penny Arcade nailed it perfectly: “an adventure game where you play a murderer and the investigators of the murder set against the backdrop of a Mayan prophecy”.

It plays a lot like “living” a movie - and no, I don’t mean in the sense of the first CD-ROM games back in the 90s, with crappy full-motion video, which weren’t really games at all, but bad movies where you had to do something at some particular times, so that the movie could go on. Believe me, this one is different.

It’s called Indigo Prophecy in the USA, and Fahrenheit in the rest of the world. Most likely, they didn’t want the “Fahrenheit 9/11″ association. The American version is slightly censored - I guess that, after the GTA:SA “Hot Coffee” mod, no (non-Hentai) games can have sex scenes in the US, at least for a while.