The game sees the player take control of Roger Penrose, a journalist who researches the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.

The player can navigate through photographs and click on hot-spots, as well as use their camera to take photos of key objects and use historical information provided in the game to locate items of interest.

It forms the interface to authentic reports and interviews, historical photos, original film clips and sound radio broadcasts.

[10] Eku Wand compared the challenges of Interactive storytelling that a multimedia writer and director must reckon with to the rules of the classic game of chess.

[11] The official game website contains further information to help players solve the case, such as biographies of characters and transcripts of intercepted phone calls.

It is a fascinating crime story in which the dimensions of fiction and documentary overlap.”[4] Sputnik MittenDuRch felt the game served as both a multimedia Berlin travel guide and a Thriller.

[15] Faculty of Cultural Studies at Technical University of Dortmund felt the price-performance ratio was good compared to other titles.

[16] Education portal learn:line NRW wrote that the game demonstrated how interactive media could be used to make contemporary history come alive in the classroom.