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The game is set in [[New York City]] in the [[Cyberpunk|Cyberpunk-ish]] future of 2040 and is centered around the investigation of a serial killer known as the "Ripper", due to him having a similar MO to the original [[Jack the Ripper]]. The player controls Jake Quinlan, a reporter investigating the killings who periodically receives messages from the Ripper himself. The case turns [[It's Personal|personal]] when Quinlan's girlfriend Catherine Powell is attacked by the Ripper for [[He Knows Too Much|getting too close]]. Unexpectedly, she survives but falls into a deep coma. It is up to Quinlan to discover the Ripper's identity, even if it means butting heads with [[Cowboy Cop]] Detective Vincent Magnotta.
This game is mostly notable for two things: first, the sheer amount of Hollywood actors involved in this game. The list is a sight to behold: [[Christopher Walken]], [[The Tenth Kingdom|Scott]] [[Gilmore Girls|Cohen]], [[Rocky (
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* [[Absurdly Sharp Blade]]: This is what most people assume happened to the victims, even though it turns out they all ''exploded'' from the inside and an exploded person should not look the same as someone gutted like the catch of the day.
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* [[Evil Versus Evil]]: [[Dirty Cop]] Vincent Magnotta versus the [[Ax Crazy]] Joey Falconetti
* [[Extreme Graphical Representation]]
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* [[Fake Brit]]: The fake Cockney accents from Falconetti's recording of their last session in Whitechapel are particularly painful.
** Best shown in the mangled pronounciation of "Spitalfields" (Spit-al-fields) as ''Spy-del-fields''.
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* [[Fridge Logic]]: Hamilton Wofford's cyberspace-doppleganger is called an Artificial Intelligence, yet it fails to recognise that Quinlan ''isn't'' his brother Covington. Particularly baffling, as Quinlan ''even says he's not''.
* [[Game Over Man]]: Losing the final shoot-out sequence switches the game's perspective to Ripper. We don't see his/her face, only a monitor showing Quinlan's dead body.
* [[Genius Cripple]]: Soap Beatty, [[
* [[Guide Dang It]]: Some of the more difficult puzzles
* [[It's a Small Net After All]]: As Spoony highlights, the Internet in this game seems to consist only of a dozen websites.
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: Did you see the cast list above?
* [[Jack the Ripoff]]
* [[Karma Houdini]]: It's implied that in what's thought to be the true ending, {{spoiler|[[Dirty Cop|Magnotta]], [[Ax Crazy|Falconetti]], and [[Dr. Jerk|Burton]] }} all get away with their various misdeeds
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* [[Real Song Theme Tune]]: "Don't Fear The Reaper" by Blue Oyster Cult. {{spoiler|The song's lyrics are the key to the final puzzle.}}
* [[Unexpected Gameplay Change]]: [[Unexpected Shmup Level|The several rail shooter sections]]. Yeah, in ''an adventure game.''
** And Spoony learns the hard way that they too fall under [[Guide Dang It]]; in one of them, it's not enough to shoot the pop-up targets once, but to shoot them as many times as possible in order to get the qualifying score, even though the game fails to tell you that little detail.
* [[Wounded Gazelle Gambit]]: Magnotta gets away with beating up Quinlan while interrogating him by ''slicing his forehead with a huge knife'' so he can claim self defense if Quinlan reports this. I mean, [[Refuge in Audacity|would anyone believe the truth]]?
** Also qualifies as an inverse of the [[Police Brutality Gambit]]
** And, as Spoony points out, ''it wouldn't have worked anyway.''
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'''Spoony''': With a knife, while handcuffed. }}
* [[Your Mind Makes It Real]]: Forget hacking into the human mind to give you an aneurism or whatever: the Ripper can hack your brain in such a way your body's internal pressure builds until you explode from the inside.
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