Mystery Trackers: Paxton Creek Avenger Collector's Edition

Supervillains do not seem to be very successful outside comic books or movies, mainly because the police force can usually handle most types of criminals. Hence, there’s no need for a vigilante billionaire to go out at night and practice hand-to-hand combat against psychopaths. However, that doesn’t mean there aren’t evil men out there, it just means they don’t make a big show out of it.

Mystery Trackers: Paxton Creek Avenger Collector's Edition is a hidden object adventure game in which you have to deal with supernatural forces and investigate a kidnapping. On the other hand, the gameplay mechanics should be familiar to every HOG fan out there, especially if you have also brushed against the series at hand, which has a pretty long history behind it.

As far as the story is concerned, there’s nothing too complicated going on, but the events are quite exciting and intriguing right from the start. Hence, it would appear that some kind of villain has the Mystery Trackers association in his sights, which is why he kidnaps the commander’s daughter. Naturally, your job is to track him down and recover the girl, while jumping through all sorts of hoops in order to do so.

In case you are not familiar with the genre, the gameplay is pretty intuitive, although there is an extensive tutorial to get you started as well. In short, it’s all about exploring every scene and looking for items that can be used to solve puzzles, as well as combining them in order to obtain keys or various other helpful objects. Actual puzzles come into play as well, but they are much rarer and not as simple.

The point & click interface makes for a very relaxed gameplay, but it also means that the environments are hand-drawn and static. This shouldn’t be a huge problem, on the other hand, because the artwork is great. Maybe not the same can be said about the cutscenes, but there are definitely worse examples out there.

Although Mystery Trackers: Paxton Creek Avenger Collector's Edition is not complex enough to attract hardcore puzzle fans, the experience is exciting enough to appeal to HOG lovers everywhere. Hence, if you do not mind simplicity and you appreciate a helping hand every now and again, this is a great choice to make.