Innocent Until Caught

Jack T. Ladd is a man in debt. And the tax man hates to wait. On a world that spans 3 planets, 1 Cloud City and at least 4 bars. It's up to you to pay back the tax man, clear your name and get yourself involved in a huge number of strange and indescribable activities that only the most liberal of minds would ever contemplate.

Released: 1993
Platforms: Amiga MS-DOS
Genres: Adventure Point-and-click adventure Science
Developers: Divide By Zero
Publishers: SCE Studio Liverpool
Modes: Single-player
Perspective: Third person
Themes: Science fiction Comedy
Country: United Kingdom
Time to beat: 11hwith extras

About

Innocent Until Caught is a graphic adventure published in 1993 for Amiga and MS-DOS by Psygnosis. It was followed by Guilty.

Keywords

robots
spaceship
dialogue trees
political

Media

The articlegameplay, story, development, reception

Story

The game takes place in a space-borne setting, in the year 2171.

Jack T. Ladd is a thief, his hunting-ground is the whole galaxy, and at the moment, he's in big trouble. He's told by the IRDS (Interstellar Revenue Decimation Service) he's got 28 days to pay his taxes - or else the interstellar tax agency will hunt him down. Termination is a viable punishment for tax offenders in these days.

Reception

Computer Gaming World's Charles Ardai in 1994 stated that Innocent Until Caught was "sometimes disappointing but never dull". He complained of the many bugs ("Innocent broke down at least once every half dozen screens") and other problems, but "I suppose it is a good sign that even with all the bugs, I never felt inclined to stop playing. Jack's story is interesting enough ... the puzzles clever enough, and most of the graphics and sound good enough".

Ardai concluded that "it is rare that a game startles me in the way this one did ... Unusual games earn points in my book, as do daring ones, and Innocent is both".