I'm not into story lines; I usually just scan them for something that might be important. And I can't judge the sound quality because I don't usually have the sound on either! But the visuals are great. I just love HOS. They are not too difficult to find; just moderately. I only used a couple of hints. The game moves along quickly and I really didn't need the story line or sound to make sense of it.

Game follows the same structure as the 1st Interpol and uses those locations. The scenes are large and not too crowded; objects are well defined. There are 24 missions to solve. You are on the tracks of ?The Collector? and his team, who are wanted for larceny, theft and deception. You visit two or three locations and search for 18 or 28 objects for each mission. You then solve the crime by looking for 10 of a single object or differences between 2 pictures. You are timed for a maximum time of 24 minutes per mission. You can set the ambient, sound effects and music volumes. Game took 3 ? hours vs. the 8 ? hours for the 1st game (which had you visiting many more locations per mission). Comparing the two games, the 1st game was too long, this one a little short (but that may be because I found most everything without hints since the locations were familiar).