Order Now !!!! Ripper - 1 DVD
Genre(s)
Interactive movie, Point-and-click adventure
Ripper takes place in New York City in the year 2040. It opens with the investigation of the recent murder of Renee Stein, the third victim of a serial killer known as "The Ripper", largely out of the modus operandi similarity to Jack the Ripper.
The player assumes the role of Jake Quinlan, a reporter for the Virtual
Herald, whom The Ripper sends messages to detailing his murders (an act
attributed to Jack the Ripper, although no letters have been proven to
come from him). Along with the police(whose investigation is headed by
Detective Vincent Magnotta), Quinlan is seeking The Ripper's true
identity.
After investigating Renee Stein's murder, Quinlan receives a message
from The Ripper, who warns Quinlan that his girlfriend, Catherine
Powell, will be the next victim, as she has gotten too close to
discovering his identity. Quinlan manages to find Powell still alive,
but in a coma "deeper than anyone thought possible." Cybersurgeon Claire
Burton at the Meta-Cognition Center of the Tribeca
Center Hospital manages to retrieve a distorted image of Powell's
attacker, but requires additional information from Quinlan to make it
clearer. (This is also a reference to Jack the Ripper, as the police
hypothesized that they might be able to get an image of the killer from
the retinas of the victims.) He provides this through investigating into
what Powell was on to in her investigation and homes in on three
possible suspects
for The Ripper's murders. In order to transmit this information into
Powell's brain directly, he enlists the help of Joey Falconetti, a hacker who specializes in interfacing directly with the human brain.
Quinlan's investigation leads him to discover that all of The
Ripper's victims and all of those associated with the investigation of
The Ripper (except Quinlan himself) were part of an old gaming group
known as the Web Runners, who played a game based on the Jack the Ripper
mystery. The last session of this game somehow caused one of the
players to die in real life. The player that died happened to be
Catherine Powell's mother. Assistance from a pathologist named Vic Farley reveals that The Ripper's murders were done by placing a code into a victim's brain while in cyberspace
that caused their internal body pressure to rise to a point of
explosion, which consequently happens to Farley after providing his
explanation. Quinlan also finds a cyberspace weapon developed by a
murdered cyberarchitect named Hamilton Wofford, designed specifically to
kill The Ripper inside a virtual recreation of the historic White
Chapel district of London, where the Jack the Ripper murders took place.
After assembling the weapon and gathering the necessary protection from
The Ripper's weapon, Quinlan enters cyberspace, kills The Ripper, and
manages to escape the virtual White Chapel in time to escape its
destruction.
After accumulating all of the necessary clues, The Ripper can be one
of four possible suspects: Joey Falconetti, Claire Burton, Vincent
Magnotta, or Catherine Powell. With each play-through, the clues and
actual identity of The Ripper vary.
