Nancy Drew: The Deadly Device
The game is a geek girls delight.
Her Interactive has finally plunked Nancy Drew down into the middle of STEM.
You might recognize this as Science, Technology, Engineering and Math and do they make up for lost time.
The lab is filled with high-voltage cables snaking across the floor, robots, fume hoods, beakers, microscopes,
shelves of reagents including hydrofluoric acid – so nasty it can't be stored in a glass bottle.
There is a photolithography lab where get to use a 3D printer and create your own card to restart the Tesla coil.
In the mean time there's lots of information about Nikola Tesla – an important name in the scientific
cognoscenti circles – he invented AC (Alternating Current).
Nan even gets to experience high voltage electrical charges while safely ensconced in a Faraday cage - a
metal mesh box. It's less exciting at the beginning when you get the rundown on the scientist's death
and have to decipher lots of codes and passwords.
The night and day functions are well done here and easy to use.
In true Nancy Drew fashion there are puzzles every step of the way.
Sometimes I feel like picking up a Nancy Drew book and just reading it.
In passing – this is only the second game where an actual death takes place.
The other was in the first one,
Nancy Drew: Secrets Can Kill.
It's an amazing record – 27 mysteries with only two murders.
Reviewed by: Editor - Dec/12
Rating: E - Everyone
Fun Factor: Finally a mystery in a lab
Female Factor: Great rspunky heroine
Player Friendly: Easier day/night function and good choice of levels