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Clue (known as Cluedo outside of North America) is a 1998 video game based on the board game of the same name. It is also known as Clue: Murder at Boddy Mansion or Cluedo: Murder at Blackwell Grange, depending on whether the country of release used American or British English. [1] [2] [3] Clue runs on Microsoft Windows.
Gamezebo rated the game 4 stars out of 5, saying the good included "animations and sound effects; faithfully reproduces tabletop edition's mechanics; charm and personality; eliminates much of the real game's hands-on busywork", and the bad included "no head-to-head multiplayer; can get repetitive; need to sit through canned animations". [4]
In Canada and the U.S., the game is known as Clue. It was retitled because the traditional British board game Ludo, on which the name is based, was less well known there than its American variant Parcheesi. [39] The North American versions of Clue also replace the character "Reverend Green" from the original Cluedo with "Mr. Green". This is the ...
Cluedo, known as Clue in North America, is a murder mystery-themed multimedia franchise started in 1949 with the manufacture of the Cluedo board game. The franchise has since expanded to film, television game shows, book series, computer games, board game spinoffs, a comic, a play, a musical, jigsaws, card games, and other media.
Clue (1992 video game), full title: Clue: Parker Brothers' Classic Detective Game; Clue (1998 video game), full title: Clue: Murder at Boddy Mansion or Cluedo: Murder at Blackwell Grange; Clue (book series), series of 18 children's books published throughout the 1990s; Clue, 1985 American ensemble mystery comedy film based on the board game.
M. Evan Brooks reviewed the computer editions of Risk, Monopoly, Scrabble, and Clue for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "In this reviewer's opinion, Scrabble is the weakest product (given cumbersome play and graphics), while Risk and Clue: Master Detective are the strongest."
The Clue DVD Game is not the first Clue game to include an interactive component. It was preceded by a Parker Brothers game called the Clue VCR Mystery Game, which is now out-of-print and collectible. This precursor to the Clue DVD Game saw some popularity because it spawned a sequel, called Clue II Murder in Disguise - A VCR Mystery Game.
Clue was "riding a new wave of popularity", [3] and Fatal Illusion was intended to be the first installment of a series of three Clue Chronicles mysteries. [4] However, the series was cancelled when "Hasbro folded and EAI quit the gaming business". [5] Unlike its predecessors, Clue Chronicles "leaves the board game 'feel' behind and transforms ...