Gamezebo writes: "Game reviewing sounds like a dream job, but remember not every game receives four or five stars. We run into poor developed games and can't quit as soon as we confirm the game stinks. Truck on, we must and we do with The Hardy Boys: The Perfect Crime.
The Hardy Boys – Nancy Drew's teen boy detective counterparts from the books and TV series – are on summer break from school when they encounter crimes happening around Baytown. The game breaks the story into chapters beginning with a missing motorcycle that must be found."
The Hardy Boys: The Perfect Crime would be a good idea as a Flash game that you can spend a few minutes playing at the office when the boss isn't looking. But as a full-scale adventure game, it's a boring failure. As more of these hidden-object games are released, the stories attached to them need to become more involving and the visual presentation more sophisticated, or they'll suck the fun right out of a genre that has hung on by its fingernails for years.
