The Last Express Free Download for PC is a video game created by Jordan Mechner and Smoking Car Productions, published in 1997. It is an adventure game that takes place on the Orient Express, days before the start of World War I. It is noted as being one of the few video games that attempts to realistically simulate real time. The game was a commercial disappointment, despite receiving highly positive reviews and a positive post-release response.
Set on the Orient Express in 1914, the player takes on the role of Robert Cath, an American doctor on the train's final journey from Paris to Constantinople (modern Istanbul) before World War I. Cath, already wanted by French police as he is suspected of the murder of an Irish police officer, is contacted urgently by his old friend Tyler Whitney, to join him on the Orient Express, gateway to the East, and a possible exit from all his troubles. Cath boards the train via a motorcycle and looks for Whitney, who is already on board. However, from the moment he steps onto this luxurious train, Cath becomes involved in a maelstrom of treachery, lies, political conspiracies, personal interests, romance and murder.
The game has 30 characters representing a cross-section of European forces at the time, including Serbian freedom fighters, a German arms dealer, a Russian anarchist, an Austrian concert violinist, a Persian eunuch and his private harem, a mysterious art collector and others. As the train races east, the player must stay alive while interacting with these characters, which includes eavesdropping on conversations, sneaking into compartments and defusing a bomb. The story is non-linear, with the player's actions (and failures to act) determining the course of the story; as a result, the game's script is 800 pages long. The Last Express Download free Full Version.
Characters
Robert Cath
A young American doctor and the protagonist of the game. Seemingly ostracized by the American medical circles due to his tendencies to the occult, Cath moved to Europe. During this period, he had a run-in with Irish nationalists, resulting in a firefight with British police along with an Irishman named Reilly. The fight resulted with the death of a British policeman and the injury of Reilly. Cath escaped to the continent and retreated to Paris where he was contacted by his old friend Tyler Whitney with whom he seems to have a grudge about «what happened in Cuba». Cath is depicted to be a capable character in social circles (he speaks French and Russian and seems to understand German, judging by the subtitles which are absent when he overhears Arabic or Serbian).
Tyler Whitney
An American gentleman, and close friend of Cath, who seems to have traveled extensively as he is known by many characters in the train. His social contacts vary from Serbian military to German industrialists. Whitney invites Robert Cath to the Orient Express for them to take a journey to Jerusalem where Whitney claims to have found something interesting for Cath (which later turns out to be a manuscript). Tyler Whitney's personal agenda for being on the Orient Express is a three-way business transaction: He possesses an antique egg which he wants to sell to a certain Prince Kronos for a hefty amount of gold which he would then turn over to the German arms dealer August Schmidt to purchase military equipment to support the Serbian «Black Hand» for their liberation campaign in the Balkans. Unfortunately, Whitney turns up dead before the journey even starts, leaving Cath in a very delicate and dangerous position. The Last Express Game free Download Full Version.
August Schmidt
A wealthy German industrialist and an arms dealer. He plans to sell his weaponry to Tyler Whitney. Along the way, he meets Anna Wolff, an Austrian violinist and socialite to whom Schmidt is seemingly quite attracted. However, after the acquisition of the guns «Tyler» bought for them, Serbians hijack the train and subsequently Schmidt is left inside the sleeping car to which he was evacuated.
Anna Wolff
An Austrian socialite and violinist. One of the porters in the train refer to her as «having made more journeys on the Orient Express» than the porter himself. After discovering Tyler's corpse, Cath finds a scarf with the monogram «W» upon it which puts Wolff under some suspicion. Later in the journey, it is revealed that Anna Wolff is actually working for Austria as a spy, tracking August Schmidt's arms deal. Anna becomes Robert Cath's eventual love-interest. After reaching Constantinople and learning that the war has broken out, she leaves Cath to join the war effort, promising to return after the war is over.
George Abbot
A British gentleman who boards the train in Munich, Abbot appears as a talkative and ordinary man who converses with practically everyone he comes across. After the murder of the young Dolnikov, he reveals to Cath that he was aware of his true identity, along with his exploits concerning the Irish incident and his impersonation of Whitney and offers him to work with the British government for the upcoming European crisis. He is one of the few characters to actually make it to Constantinople.
Alexei Dolnikov
A Russian nobleman who disdains his aristocratic roots. Alexei espouses anarchism and the abolishing of all authority. He and Tatiana Obolensky are childhood friends and Alexei asks her to elope with him. When she refuses, he attempts to plant a bomb and kill Count Obolensky whom Alexei considers as a relic of Tsar's oppressive rule. In his confrontation with the Count, Alexei is stabbed to death by the delirious elder aristocrat.
Count Vassili Alexandrovich Obolensky & Tatiana Obolenskaya
The Tsar's cousin and a former Russian ambassador, Count Obolensky takes his young granddaughter Tatiana, who spent several years in Paris, back to Russia. The Count is rather senile at first, with occasional seizures which Cath treats with herbal medication. During a confrontation with his granddaughter's lover Alexei, the Count, in his delirium, stabs the young anarchist to death. Tatiana, wracked by guilt and shocked by Alexei's death, assumes an almost catatonic state. Even during the Serbian hijacking attempt, they do not move from their table in the dining car. The Count displays a certain aspect of what might be called clairvoyance as he claims that those who were evacuated to the sleeping cars will never reach Constantinople. In the end, as the train reaches its final destination, Tatiana opens the gun cache and blow them up with what seems to be Alexei's lighter. The Last Express game free Download for PC Full Version.
Prince Kronos
Rumored to be an Abyssinian prince in exile, Kronos is a wealthy art collector who travels with his private car along with his bodyguard Kahina. He seems to know Cath's secrets and wishes to carry on with Whitney's transaction. He never leaves his car, except for one occasion, on which he invites Anna Wolff for a duet as he plays the piano. In the end, he turns out to be the main antagonist of the game, as he returns to the train in Constantinople to take Robert and Anna hostage to acquire the «egg».
Milos
A Serbian military officer and a member of the «Black Hand» who assassinated Prince Ferdinand. Apparently, the Serbian High Command gave Tyler Whitney an antique to liquidate and buy them military equipment. Milos and his comrades, Vesna, Ivo and Salko board the Orient Express to get the weapons from Munich and then hijack the train through Austria into Serbia. During the attempt, Cath kills the subordinates after which Anna Wolff shoots Milos to death.
The Firebird
The object that forms the main story arc of the entire game, the Firebird is a jeweled egg with a world map engraved upon it. The egg is accompanied by a whistle, both of which are lost in the beginning. It turns out that after finding Tyler's dead body, Anna Wolff took the egg and later gave it to the unsuspecting Tatiana for safekeeping. The whistle turns up in the hands of the French boy, François. Cath recovers both items and hides the egg in the luggage car while keeping the whistle. A recurring reference is made for the Firebird: Tyler Whitney (in Cath's nightmare), Count Obolensky and finally Kronos all refer to the bird's «singing». At the climax of the game, Kronos holds Cath at gunpoint to open the egg. Cath opens the jewel by the virtue of the Russian fairytale he found in Tyler's luggage, referencing various locations on the world, forming some sort of combination. As the egg opens, it turns into a mechanical predatory bird. At Kronos' demand, Anna plays the violin and the bird sings. However, instead of closing the egg Cath blows the whistle, launching the creature first on Kronos and then on Tahina. As the bird's claws tear and shred at Kronos, Cath finally sees how Tyler met his end. The Last Express Free Download Torrent.
