Jekyll and Hyde (video game)

Jekyll and Hyde
Cover painting by Michel Bohbot
Developer(s)	In Utero
Publisher(s)	NA: DreamCatcher Interactive EU: Cryo Interactive
Platform(s)	Microsoft Windows
Release	NA: August 31, 2001 EU: 2001
Genre(s)	Adventure
Mode(s)	Single-player

Jekyll and Hyde is an adventure video game by Cryo Interactive. It was released for Microsoft Windows in 2001. The game is based on the 1886 novella Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson. A PlayStation 2 version was planned but was eventually cancelled.

Story

Set in 1890 London, after the tragic death Dr. Jekyll's wife, he has been in mourning with his daughter, Laurie, both went to Jekyll's laboratory located in a Mental Hospital for the insane where he works. A mysterious man called Burnwell, one of the patients of the Asylum goes berserk and poisons with an reagent drug and all the food supplies of the asylum inmates and they go in a killing spree inside the asylum, when Jekyll was working at his lab, Burnwell kidnapped his daughter Laurie from the her room and the Nurse warned Jekyll not go any closer to Burnwell otherwise he would kill her, Jekyll goes after Burnwell and along the way he rescues a Doctor of the asylum but fails to save another when he falls to his death after Burnwell cuts the rope with an knife where the second doctor was trapped besides Laurie in the atrium, Burnwell demands Dr. Jekyll to bring back his alter ego, Mr. Hyde Dr. Jekyll has no choice but to reactivate his laboratory equipment and bring back his dreaded alter ego, Mr. Hyde. after going to the atrium of the asylum a second time and confronting Burnwell the man escapes with Laurie and Jekyll is suddenly faced by an appearance of a second mysterious tall and thin man who calls himself simply by the name "The Attorney", he demands Dr. Jekyll to find three metallic piece keys of a book that is called the Book of Zohar, the three metallic pieces are guarded by a Chinese noble called James yang, an Maharaja from India and a Voodoo Witch Doctor.

Reception

Although the sound effects are praised, Jekyll & Hyde didn't receive many positive reviews from critics. IGN says "Good voice acting is unfortunately overshadowed by the lack of animation when characters are speaking...if almost nothing else is good about a game, sound cannot save it." GameSpot criticized the game's confusing camera angles and bad control, saying "it seems less like a game and more like a parody of the action-adventure genre."

See also

• List of video games by Cryo Interactive
• Adaptations of Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde