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Loco Motive review - a luscious point and click adventure let down by a lacklustre mystery

Beautifully animated, wonderfully voiced and witty to boot, Loco Motive ticks a lot of right boxes for point and click likers. If only its underlying mystery wa

Set in and around the murder of the moneyed Lady Unterwald - who's mysteriously dropped dead during the reading of her own much anticipated and constantly updated will aboard a steam-powered express train - you first take control of her paperwork-loving estate lawyer Arthur Ackerman. Ranging from snarky wealthy widows and idiot sons to sleazeball con artists, crafty accountants and overly stressed chefs to name just a few of the passengers you'll be rubbing shoulders with here, nearly every single character in Loco Motive works extremely hard to keep you entertained. His storyline sheds fresh light on events leading up to Lady Unterwald's murder, but once again the game does such a good job with typing up any loose plot threads it introduces here that there's barely anything left for its third and final protagonist - Inland Revenue secret agent Diana Osterhagen - to actually investigate.

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