Righteous Kill 2: Revenge of the Poet Killer HD has pretty good graphics. You’ll be investigating a series of murders in the New York City area, so your crime scenes will include typical NY locations like the subway, back alleys, Central Park and a taxi, but you’ll also find yourself looking for clues in a nightclub, an Asian shop, the docks, a warehouse, a gun shop, an apartment, a rundown hotel and even a drug lab. Items look the way they should and although they are cleverly hidden, they aren’t done to a ridiculously small or large scale, so it works well.
There’s a decent dramatic musical score playing in the background which sounds either the same or very similar to the first game in the series. However, there were no voiceovers whatsoever and these were sadly missed. While the dialogue is printed on the screen, there’s just something special about having voiceovers. I also have a minor gripe about the sound effects. Every time you collect an object, the sound of a picture being taken occurs. If you pick up a bunch of objects in rapid succession, it can get aggravating. When you leave a crime scene, it sounds like the cork on a bottle of champagne is being popped – odd. While in the police lab, strange sounds occur like something sounding like a ventilator in a hospital. However, there is great improvement over the last game’s sound effects which seemed redundant, continuous and often, out of place.
