Carte Blanche (I)

A freshman comes into town…
Raised in a small town bourgeois family and recently graduated from college in humanities, Edgar Delacroix has yet to discover what the big city has in store for him.

After a fortuitous entry in the world of private investigation, he has to deal with twisted and suspicious individuals, solve sinister mysteries and risk his life in rather unpleasant circumstances.

Montreal, 1924...
Both a financial and industrial metropolis, a center of vice and alcohol smuggling, Montreal in the twenties has all the assets to cater to the needs of criminals with any amount of imagination. The seamiest intrigues will be Edgar’s daily bread and cold sweat his squalid, bitter butter.

A cinematographic adventure game...
Using the 7th Art's visual language, Carte Blanche offers an experience akin to cinema, and especially its less advisable genre - the classical Hollywood Film Noir. Carte Blanche is also certainly the first video game to offer a cinemascope format and a deliberate choice of black and white.

Innovative character development system
Now you won’t be only collecting items, you’ll also be picking up skills and competences, and all that without bashing thousands of identical goblins! The competences you choose to develop will determine the way the character will be able to solve problems.

Intuitive, hassle-free, streamlined interface
Tired of trying your whole inventory on every clickable item in the room?Let our ergonomic interface design keep the hassle to minimum.

Features
Believable puzzles seamlessly integrated in the storyline

A great cast of rich and surprising characters

Hours of hilarious context-dependant dialogue

Characters can be exported to future sequels