Dexter iPhone game review

“My name is Dexter Morgan and it’s going to happen again and again…” This is the opening line from our dark protagonist. In this new iphone game, you get to play as the man with the uncontrollable urge to kill, Dexter Morgan. But Dexter has a set of standards/rules that he must follow; Kill only those who deserve it. Now Fans of the show can step into the shoes and solve the cold cases and take action, the way Dexter was taught. In the game the player gets to solve cases that he solves on the show and even some new ones, so if you’ve seen the first season you’ll see some very recognizable cases. Not to mention that all the original actors have lent their voices for their characters, so you don’t have to worry about hearing some cheap knock off actor that they try to pass as the real thing. Players also get a lot of mini games to try out and practice incase they want to take a break from the main story line.

The control scheme of the game was pretty straight forward and easy to use. You are given two modes of control, you can tilt the iphone to change the angle of your camera or you can use the joysticks that are on screen; I found it easier to use one joystick and slide my finger across the screen when I want to look around, it’s much quicker that way. The mini games are pretty straight forward but can become challenging. During the DNA mini game I found my self taping the screen when I should be and it doesn’t register or registers late and I get it wrong or during the blood spatter one I would drag at the angle that I think it is and every so often it would shoot off in a different direction.

In this game, you need to have patience, you can’t just run and do things as fast as possible you have to think it through. I found that, at times, when Dexter is telling you where to go next if you miss what he say’s then your going to have a difficult time trying to figure out where to go next and its possible that you will miss some pieces of evidence or sometimes it’s not very clear on where to go next. For example when doing the Marielli murder case Dexter said that I should run the number’s on the license plate on the computer, well he doesn’t exactly say where so I spent a good 30-45 minutes running from desk to desk trying to figure out where to go then I randomly found it while I ran through the lab and all the mini game options went away.

Being able to hear Michael C. Hall’s voice and the rest of cast in the game makes it feel like you’re actually in the game and your not thinking to your self how bad the voice acting is and all that. I was able to focus more on actually playing the game as Dexter in the show was doing his killings, how he would go about it anyways. The game looks amazing, especially for iPhone, I thought that it looked better then some of the games that are on the PSP. But I can’t help but feel that they rushed on the design of Deb, she looks blocky and pointy at times in the game, especially when you meet up with her for the first time.

As a gamer, I felt compelled to gather every piece of evidence as if they were trophies or achievements. Often at times though I couldn’t find/figure out where to get the next piece of evidence because you get no clues on where they might be so I would run around checking every single thing to make sure I got all that I needed. I felt that this part of the game was really short; I was able to collect most of the evidence, in total, and finish the game in about 3-4 hours. After I finished the game I really wanted to play more and continue on with the story so I just restarted the game saying and doing different things. I got kind of confused on the whole Mask and Dark passenger part, when in conversations I wouldn’t say anything dark and I would gain more dark points then I would mask. Also a nice little tidbit that I found is that you can go to you’re a/c unit and look at your previous victims even Dexter’s first kill, which I thought was really interesting.

I really enjoyed the game, then again my opinion might be biased on that because im a big fan of the show, But I believe that even people who have never seen the show will play this game and get hooked and might even watch the show to get the extra details that the game doesn’t portray.