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Tex Murphy: The Pandora Directive
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Sold on GOG Adventure 1996 Access Software

Tex Murphy: The Pandora Directive

Access Software's 1996 detective adventure, with branching story paths and three different ways to play Tex.

Private eye Tex Murphy is hired to find a missing scientist. The trail leads to an old military secret about something found at Roswell, and to people willing to kill to keep it hidden.

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About the game

Your choices of how Tex behaves, from good guy to cad, lead to different paths and endings.

Real actors and fully explorable 3D rooms, like in Under a Killing Moon.

History

Developed and published by Access Software in 1996, again starring Chris Jones as Tex.

Overseer followed in 1998.

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Ways to play

GOG.com Tex Murphy: The Pandora Directive
Paid Open

Extras

Only official, legal extras. We never link to scanned manuals or unofficial downloads.

Official extras on GOG Buying the GOG version also gets you these extras, free to download from your GOG library:
In-game soundtrack TexExpert Manual (12 pages)
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