Still Life 2 is the third game in the crime-investigation games series that follows the steps of FBI agent Victoria McPherson, in her attempt to unravel the murder's identity from the previous game and to catch the new copycat serial killer that horrifies the Maine state. This new villain comes to Vic's attention when he kidnaps journalist Paloma Hernandez, who has been covering the East Coast crimes from the beginning in her TV reports.

You will play again with two characters switching back and forth between both of them in order to understand the events that take place. This time each of the two characters bring a different perspective of the story with radical effects to the gameplay. Playing with Vic, the game will keep its original feeling of the series giving the player the opportunity to take part in an extensive investigation. Playing as the new character Paloma, the player will emerge in the new role of the victim harassed by a serial killer in an abandoned house. Both characters are conditioned to succeed with the help of their own interconnected deeds. Paloma's life depends on Vic's investigation, while Vic's investigation depends on the unconscious traces left by Paloma.

I was expecting to find the same mechanics and interface from previous titles, but I was taken by surprise to see a mixed inventory and an in-game integrated interface. The new inventory has a limited number of cases forcing the player to rearrange his objects carefully and get rid of those not worthy anymore. This can be done by using the deposit cases located in each important scene of the level. Not only that you can deposit the objects, but you can take them back for a further usage in the game. The only problem here is that the developers didn't take in consideration the real life measures of every object. You can have a canister that occupies only 1 case in your inventory while an empty spray bottle needs four cases. It is really frustrating to see that some of the objects tend to inflict an over usage of the inventory in detriment of others who might be worthier. Besides the inventory, both characters have additional tools. Victoria will frequently use her Smartphone for taking pictures and sending important evidence to her friend and colleague Claire Ashby back at the bureau. But the most important gadget in the whole game is the CSIA Test Kit. With this kit you can take any important evidence from the crime scene and analyze it. You can use for example the fingerprint powder to discover prints on different surfaces that can be scanned and entered into the computer through the 3D scanner. Any evidence can be checked in three different ways using the computer, chemical or database analysis.