writes", while Davies criticised the game for not living up to Pratchett's humour. Bronstring felt the voices sounded "artificial", placing the blame on either poor editing of the various sound sources or a lack of variety in the four voice actors. Barrick, however, praised the voice actors, feeling that every line came across "convincingly". Guenther found the British attempts to imitate foreign accents funny, but nonetheless praised the voice acting. Retrospective In a retrospective review in 2002, Bronstring maintained his original rating of 4/5 stars. A 2011 retrospective by Eurogamer's John Walker called it "surprisingly poorly structured", and noted a lack of puzzles. Walker still admitted a "fondness" for the game, however, comparing it favourably to the company's first two Discworld adventure games, noting a lack of "grating knowing tweeness" and an ability to be genuinely funny. In 2011, Adventure Gamers would go on to place it at number 27 in their "Top 100 All-time Adventure Games" list, giving credit to its innovative notepad mechanism, which would become a common element in adventure games. Walker later listed it at number 20 in "The 25 Best Adventure Games Ever Made", praising the voice cast. PC Gamers Richard Cobbett placed it as 25 in a similar list, commenting "the third Discworld game finally shed its predecessors' fixation with being as much Python as Pratchett". Andy Kelly, also writing for PC Gamer, called it one of the 20 best detective games. Kelly commented: "Its shadowy, rain-soaked setting, Ankh-Morpork, is brilliantly atmospheric, and it manages to both mock film noir and be a loving homage to it." Dave Gilbert called Discworld Noir one of his favourite adventure games, and called it "one of [his] biggest inspirations". Gilbert would eventually create the "Oz noir" adventure game Emerald City Confidential (2009). Kate Berens and Geoff Howard's The Rough Guide to Videogaming includes Discworld Noir as one of its recommended games. Noting the heavy number of conversations, they felt the game played "more like an interactive novel at times" but praised the dialogue and called Ankh-Morpork "beautifully rendered". References External links 1999 video games Cancelled Dreamcast games Detective video games Europe-exclusive video games GT Interactive games Mystery adventure games Neo-noir video games PlayStation (console) games Point-and-click adventure games Single-player video games Werewolf video games Video games based on Discworld Video games developed in the United Kingdom Video games set on fictional planets Windows games Video games about