Tex now has a larger office and can explore a few areas of his apartment building, while the surrounding area of San Francisco has a few new tenants, including a fancy (if seedy) nightclub and a chocolate bar opened by Clint the bum from the last game. Since only a few months have passed isince Under a Killing Moon, many of the locations and characters are more or less the same. The game also highlights Tex’s rocky relationship with Chelsee Bando, the comely newspaper saleswoman from Under a Killing Moon. In 1996, the whole “Area 51” theme hadn’t been beaten into the ground with various other elements of pop culture (as seen in TV shows like the X-Files, or games like Perfect Dark and Deus Ex), so its exploration of the myth was novel for the time, but wasn’t so heavily ingrained in conspiracy lore that it became clichéd or boring. In addition to becoming entangled with an NSA cover-up, Tex becomes involved with Malloy’s daughter to find several puzzle boxes which supposedly unlock the mystery of this “Pandora Device.” Malloy is involved with the aftermath of the Roswell Crash and the various technologies salvaged from the alien ship. Played by Kevin McCarthy, Gordon contracts Tex to hunt down a missing person named Thomas Malloy, which seems simple enough… until you eventually learn that Mr. ![]() Taking place just a few months after the events of the previous game, Tex hasn’t exactly found fame and fortune after saving the planet, but his name has caught the attention of one Gordon Fitzpatrick. Two years after the release of Under a Killing Moon, which proved to be a critical and financial success, Access released its sequel, The Pandora Directive.
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