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Jack Keane

Colonial England. Under a certain amount of duress... Jack takes on a job, which will not only cause him a great deal of trouble, but also bring to light the answer to a mystery out of his distant past. A lack…

70 1 August 2007

Jack Keane is an adventure developed by Deck13 Interactive, released 1 August 2007 on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Jack Keane is

Jack Keane is an adventure game developed by Deck13 Interactive and released in 2007. It is available on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on FMOD.

The premise, in the publisher's words

A hair-raising hunt across the length and breadth of the dangerous island finally airs the mystery surrounding Jack's past and leads to a spectacular showdown with a dark and deadly enemy and his nefarious henchmen.
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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and comedy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Jack Keane holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 33% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2007 averaged 64, so it scored 6 points above the year average.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for Pentium IV 2 GHz / Athlon 2.4 GHz, 512 MB RAM and DirectX 9.0c-compatible graphic card with 128 MB RAM (MX series and XGI Volari are not supported). At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 2GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.

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What it launched against

Jack Keane launched on 1 August 2007, within three weeks of BioShock, Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Game of the Year Edition, The World Ends with You and Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: BioShock, Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Game of the Year Edition, The World Ends with You, Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword.

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Quick answers

Jack Keane — frequently asked questions

When did Jack Keane come out?
Jack Keane was released on 1 August 2007 for Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What are the minimum PC requirements for Jack Keane?
At minimum, Jack Keane needs Pentium IV 2 GHz / Athlon 2.4 GHz, 512 MB RAM, DirectX 9.0c-compatible graphic card with 128 MB RAM (MX series and XGI Volari are not supported) graphics, 1.5 GB hard-disk capacity of storage.
How many GB is Jack Keane?
The PC version needs about 1.5 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("1.5 GB hard-disk capacity"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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