Jack the Ripper (2004 video game)

(Redirected from Jack the Ripper (2003 video game)) 2004 video game For the text adventure game, see Jack the Ripper (1987 video game). 2004 video game

Jack the Ripper
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Developer(s)	Galilea Games
Publisher(s)	NA: The Adventure Company EU: Microids
Platform(s)	Microsoft Windows
Release	NA: January 29, 2004 EU: March 4, 2004
Mode(s)	Single-player

Jack the Ripper is an adventure video game, based upon the unidentified serial killer Jack the Ripper. The game was released for Microsoft Windows in 2004. It was developed by Galilea Games and published by The Adventure Company.

The game is set in New York in 1901, where James Palmer, a reporter of the newspaper New York Today, is investigating a set of murders similar to those of "Jack the Ripper" in Whitechapel thirteen years earlier; the murders turn out to be the work of the actual Ripper.

Reception

Aggregate score
Aggregator	Score
Metacritic	58/100

Review scores
Publication	Score
Adventure Gamers
Computer Games Magazine
Computer Gaming World
GameSpot	5.2/10
GameSpy
GameZone	5.8/10
IGN	7.8/10
Jeuxvideo.com	13/20
PC Gamer (US)	61%

The game received "mixed" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.

References

Adams, David (January 29, 2004). "Jack the Ripper Ships". IGN. Ziff Davis. Retrieved February 15, 2022.
Woods and Baddeley, p. 75
^ "Jack the Ripper for PC Reviews". Metacritic. Red Ventures. Retrieved February 16, 2022.
Dickens, Evan (February 18, 2004). "Jack the Ripper review". Adventure Gamers. Retrieved February 16, 2022.
"Review: Jack the Ripper". Computer Games Magazine. No. 164. theGlobe.com. July 2004. p. 69.
Cook, Denice (May 2004). "Jack the Ripper" (PDF). Computer Gaming World. No. 238. Ziff Davis. p. 89. Retrieved February 16, 2022.
Osborne, Scott (January 30, 2004). "Jack the Ripper Review". GameSpot. Red Ventures. Retrieved February 16, 2022.
Harker, Carla (March 10, 2004). "GameSpy: Jack the Ripper". GameSpy. IGN Entertainment. Retrieved February 16, 2022.
David, Mike (February 10, 2004). "Jack the Ripper - PC - Review". GameZone. Archived from the original on September 30, 2008. Retrieved February 16, 2022.
Krause, Staci (February 11, 2004). "Jack the Ripper". IGN. Ziff Davis. Retrieved February 16, 2022.
Superpanda (March 9, 2004). "Test: Jack L'Eventreur : New-York 1901". Jeuxvideo.com (in French). Webedia. Retrieved February 16, 2022.
Saltzman, Marc (May 2004). "Jack the Ripper". PC Gamer. Vol. 11, no. 5. Imagine Media. p. 75. Archived from the original on March 15, 2006. Retrieved February 16, 2022.

External links

Jack the Ripper at MobyGames

Jack the Ripper in fiction

Seminal works

Letters

Film

Waxworks (1924)
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927)
Pandora's Box (1929)
The Lodger (1932)
The Lodger (1944)
Room to Let (1950)
Man in the Attic (1953)
Jack the Ripper (1959)
Lulu (1962)
A Study in Terror (1965)
Hands of the Ripper (1971)
Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde (1971)
The Ruling Class (1972)
What the Swedish Butler Saw (1975)
Jack the Ripper (1976)
Murder by Decree (1979)
Time After Time (1979)
Jack's Back (1988)
Edge of Sanity (1989)
Deadly Advice (1994)
Ripper (2001)
From Hell (2001)
Bad Karma (2002)
Case Closed: The Phantom of Baker Street (2002)
Ripper 2: Letter from Within (2004)
The Lodger (2009)
Holmes & Watson. Madrid Days (2012)
Batman: Gotham by Gaslight (2018)

Parody

Bizarre, Bizarre (1937)
The Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town (1976)
Amazon Women on the Moon (1987)

Music

"Jack the Ripper" (1963)
"The Ripper" (1976)
"Killer on the Loose" (1980)
The Somatic Defilement (2007)
Jack the Ripper vs. Hannibal Lecter (2014)

Stage

Earth Spirit (1895 play)
Pandora's Box (1904 play)
Lulu (1937 opera)
The Lodger (1960 opera)
The Ruling Class (1968 play)

Comics

Blood of the Innocent (1985)
Gotham by Gaslight (1989)
From Hell (1989–98)
Wonder Woman: Amazonia (1997)
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume III: Century (2009)

Literature

Sherlock Holmes	The Last Sherlock Holmes Story (1978) The Whitechapel Horrors (1992) Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography (2005) Dust and Shadow (2009) The Ripper Legacy (2016)
Short stories	"A Toy for Juliette" (1967) "The Prowler in the City at the Edge of the World" (1967)
Other	A Feast Unknown (1969) Time After Time (1979) Night of the Ripper (1984) Phantom Blood (1987) Naomi's Room (1991) Anno Dracula (1992) A Night in the Lonesome October (1993) Jack the Ripper, Light-Hearted Friend (1996) Matrix (1998) Lost (2001) Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper—Case Closed (2002) Blood and Fog (2003) The Witches of Chiswick (2003) Broken (2006) Darkside (2007) Lifeblood (2007) Dracula the Un-dead (2009) I, Ripper (2015) The Cutthroat (2017)

Television

Series	Jack the Ripper (1973) Jack the Ripper (1988) Sanctuary (2007–11) Whitechapel (2009–13) Ripper Street (2012–17) Time After Time (2017) Case File nº221: Kabukicho (2019–20) Sherlock in Russia (2020) Beforeigners (2019–present)
Episodes	"Wolf in the Fold" (1967) "Comes the Inquisitor" (1995) "Ripper" (1999) "Sanctuary for All" (2008) "The Great British Fake Off" (2020)
Other	Bridge Across Time (1985 TV film)

Video games

Jack the Ripper (1987)
The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes (1992)
Ripper (1996)
Duke Nukem: Zero Hour (1999)
Shadow Man (1999)
MediEvil 2 (2000)
Jack the Ripper (2004)
Sherlock Holmes Versus Jack the Ripper (2009)
The Ripper (canceled)
The Order: 1886 (2015)
Assassin's Creed Syndicate: Jack the Ripper (2015)
Dance of Death: Du Lac & Fey (2019)

Other

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