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Jack's Back. In 2040, a vicious serial killer stalks the mean streets of New York, eviscerating his victims and vanishing without a trace. The police are baffled, the city paralyzed with fear. Only you, as crime reporter Jake Quinlan, can crack the case.
the eagerly anticipated adventure game that Take 2 Interactive Software Inc. released on March 6, 1996, features over 35 interactive puzzles and combat sequences, four different endings, and state-of-the-art full screen video sequences set against a lavishly rendered 3-D virtual world. RIPPER,
Karen Allen appears as Dr. Clare Burton and is joined by an all-star cast led by Christopher Walken, Burgess Meredith, and fellow Raiders of the Lost Ark alumnus John Rhys-Davies.
Having already garnered Computer Game Review's "Golden Triad Award", and the "CP Recommended" award from Computer Player, RIPPER appears to be very worthy of the enormous advanced billing it has received from the gaming media.
To launch their biggest release to date, Take 2 is planning an initial worldwide roll out of 160,000 units.
"With the tremendous worldwide interest, and its upcoming release across multiple platforms, RIPPER is the kind of product with the potential to sustain a long run on the best seller list," added Mark Seremet, Take 2's president.

RIPPER has been awarded Computer Game Review's Golden Triad Award.

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RIPPER Reviews and Articles

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Strategy Plus, Inc. "Ripper".
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"Karen Allen overcomes miscasting and delivers an evenly consistent if a bit dull Dr. Clare Burton."

Entertainment Weekly "Jack to the Future", April 5, 1996.
". . . a red-haired Allen, speaking in a sexy rasp, at least injects some gravity into the role of Dr. Clare Burton."

Computer Player "Ripper - Let It Rip", January, 1996, page 22.
"Karen Allen, of Starman and Raiders of the Lost Ark fame, is Dr. Clare Burton, of the Tribeca Center for Cyber-Cognitive Studies. She is attempting to rebuild the memory of the Ripper's latest victim . . . Dr. Burton appears to be holding something back . . ."

The Daily Spectrum, Morph's Outpost on the Digital Frontier, 12/11/95.
"Normally, an item like this would come under Games People Play, but with a cast like this, RIPPER, an interactive adventure game for MS-DOS, Mac OS and Sony Playstation, will be released by Take 2 Interactive Software in February, 1996. The stellar cast includes Christopher Walken, Karen Allen, Jimmy Walker, Burgess Meredith (no, not as The Penguin) and Ossie Davis."

Electronic Entertainment "Ripper Preview", December, 1995, page 122.
". . . Weak constitutions should also steel themselves before entering the Tribeca Center for Cyber-Cognitive Studies, where you'll meet the mysterious and suspicious Dr. Clare Burton (Animal House's Karen Allen). . ."

Multimedia World "Stars Abound in Take 2's Upcoming Ripper", December, 1995, page 30.
"London's most famous killer gets a new lease on life in Ripper, a soon-to-be-released murder mystery game from Take 2 Interactive. With a budget of over $4 million, Ripper is one of the most expensive computer games ever produced, and will feature the talents of the seductively saturnine Christopher Walken, along with Burgess Meredith, John Rhy-Davies [sic], and Karen Allen -- the best cast in a CD-ROM game since Wing Commander III. . . "

Fusion, November, 1995, pages 64-72.
"The assistant director prepares the soundstage for the next shot. 'Everyone, settle,' he shouts, 'everyone quiet . . . roll in three . . . two . . .'
"'Uh, excuse me,' says [Karen Allen] dressed in a medical examiner's costume, 'Shouldn't we put the guts back in the girl?' Everyone mumbles their agreement and the shot is postponed while the special-effects 'guts,' actually linked sausages smeared with plenty of artificial blood, are stuffed back into the dummy of a deaceased girl that is the central image of this shot."

Computer Game Review, November, 1995, pages 198-210.
"Karen Allen was heard to make the comment that if the technology continues to develop, there will no longer be a need for set designers and creators in Hollywood, since anything will be able to be created on the computer with the actors then composited in."