You play as two characters: enthusiastic entertainment reporter Liz Allaire and jaded sports writer Dan Murray. While attending a gala event at monster movie factory MKO Pictures, Liz stumbles on a sinister scheme, and quickly finds herself in over her head. Dan reluctantly sets off to save her and, with her help, foil the diabolical plot. (After all, she's promised him two tickets to the big boxing match on Friday night.) You might expect a Hollywood in which creature features are produced by a monster-owned-and-operated studio to feel alien and unfamiliar, but you quickly learn that the monsters of The Next Big Thing are a lot like people. Most of them just want to be accepted in society for who they are. You meet some memorable monsters during your investigation, like the hulking Poet of Pain, who craves new and interesting ways of causing himself anguish so that he can be inspired to write poetry about it. But the mismatched journalistic duo are the stars of the show. Dan's cynical dialogue is often good for a laugh, and although Liz's penchant for uttering non sequiturs initially makes her seem just plain strange, her cheerful go-get-'em attitude eventually wins you over. A hint of romantic tension between the two very different leads makes you root for them and want to see the story through, though unfortunately, they spend very little of the game interacting, and their relationship feels underdeveloped as a result.
MINIMUM
Windows 98/2000/ME/XP
Pentium III or AMD Athlon 800MHz Processor
256MB RAM
2GB Hard Disk Space
Nvidia TNT2, GeForce 1, 2 or 3, ATI Radeon 7000, 7200, 7500 or 8500, or Matrox G450 Video Card
DirectX Compatible Sound Card
DirectX 9
MAXIMUM
Windows 7/Vista (32 or 64 bit)
Intel i7 Quad Core 2.8Ghz or AMD equivalent
3GB System RAM (High)
30 GB Hard dDisk Space
nVidia GeForce 9800 GTX / ATI Radeon HD4850 Video Card
Direct X 9.0 compatible supporting Dolby Digital Live
DirectX 9.0 - DirectX 11
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