Cruise for a Corpse

Cruise for a Corpse
Developer(s)	Delphine Software International
Publisher(s)	Erbe Software, Interplay Entertainment, U.S. Gold
Engine	Cinématique evo2[1]
Platform(s)	Amiga, Atari ST, MS-DOS
Release date(s)	1991
Genre(s)	Adventure
Mode(s)	Single Player

Cruise for a Corpse (orig. Croisière pour un cadavre) is an adventure game from Delphine Software International, made for the Amiga, Atari ST and IBM PC.

The game is designed as a murder investigation. The player assumed the role of Raoul Dusentier, a man invited to spend some time on Niklos Karaboudjan's boat. Quickly after arriving, Karaboudjan is murdered, and the investigation begins.

Cultural references

The game, being French, uses many references to the contemporary French and Belgian mythology. Amongst those:

• Karaboudjan: name of Tintin character Captain Haddock's cargo ship in the comic strip The Crab with the Golden Claws.
• Just like in The Crab with the Golden Claws, crab cans are used to hide objects (in the album, they contain opium, whereas in the game they contain hand grenades).
• The whole plot has an obvious influence from retro murder novels. The fact that the investigation takes place in a closed environment, and that all suspects had a reason for the assassination, is reminiscent of Agatha Christie's works such as Death on the Nile or Murder on the Orient Express. The old fashioned name of the inspector, Raoul Dusentier, reminds of famous French-speaking inspectors names such as Hercule Poirot or Joseph Rouletabille.

The MS-DOS version is playable in ScummVM^[2] and DOSBox,^[3] while the Amiga version runs on UAE.

References

1. ^ Cine - ScummVM
2. ^ http://scummvm.org/compatibility/SVN/cruise/
3. ^ http://www.dosbox.com/comp_list.php?showID=137&letter=C

External links

Cruise for a Corpse at MobyGames