Voyeur
First posted on 10 March 2001. Last updated on 30 January 2007.
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Spoiler Alert! The following cheat contains spoilers in the form of hints, guides, solutions, or walkthroughs to the game. Viewer discretion is advised.
As far as I know, this is the only walkthrough available. This game is very unique in many ways:
1) You play straight through - You can’t save a game, you play until the end. The game isn’t hour long so don’t worry about that.
2) This game is played on expanded memory. You would activate it through memmaker or notepad, but consult your Windows manual before doing so.
3) The game can be played many times. I have played ten times and I have come up with 5 different endings, but I recently discovered a sixth.
4) There are no cheat codes, sorry.
5) This has been rereleased with an M rating for good reason. There is much adult sexual suggestive themes. This is definitely not for kids. This game is an adult version of Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window.
6) There is a lockout feature that offers adults the option to control family use of the program. After the opening logo a lockout screen appears. To unlock the disk, enter 3333 and click on the word accept with the mouse button. You can change the lockout code. To do this, after entering the current code, click on new code, then enter your new code and click on accept and play the game.
Quoting from the manual: “Voyeur is a political thriller which allows you-from the vantage point of your apartment-to look into the windows of Hawke Manor and expose a crime.” Reed Hawke (played sleazingly good by Robert Culp), CEO of Hawke Industries, has decided to run for President of the United States. He has brought his family together (quite dysfunctional of course) for the weekend to prepare them for the announcement of his candidacy. Hawke is unaware that certain members of his family do want him to become president and one of them is prepared to reveal a dark family secret that will destroy him. Hawke will do whatever it takes-including murder-to ensure his family’s silence.
Each time this game is played, a different member of the family tries to betray Hawke. As I have said, this game should be played several times to see all of the plot twists and dirty deeds.
Time is a critical factor in game play. You only have the weekend (ending at 10:30 pm on Sunday) to observe clues and take action before Reed Hawke holds his press conference Monday morning.
The time of day is shown at the top of the screen. As you view the mansion and the secennes within its windows through the camcorder, the minutes tick by. A battery gauge on the left side of the viewfinder indicates the amount of time remaining before the next time change.
There are two ways to play this game until the end:
1) Try to prove to the police that Reed Hawke has committed murder. As you watch the Hawke mansion from next door in your apartment, you watch from your camcorder. Whatever you see and hear, you videotape. If you videotape the scence in which Hawke is implicated in the murder of a family member and show it to the police. Hawke is arrested and his bid for the presidency ends.
2) Try to save the family member in jeopardy. If you send key videotape scences to the character in jeopardy, the character will flee Hawke Manor. Once out of the house the character turns over his or her evidence to the press Hawke’s presidential bid. But if you send the videotape to one of the characters who has been bought off by Hawke, he gets the tape and sends his gorgeous assistant to settle things with you in a lethal way. But at least you get some attention from her. Especially the wild things she does in the manor.
Before I begin the walkthrough, I will briefly describe the three icons that you will come across during the game.
1) Eye icon: indicates a video scene.
2) Ear icon: indicates an audio scene. The blinds are down and you just hear what is going on.
3) Magnifying glass icon: indicates evidence such as photos, a diary, or letters.
You will have a cross hair cursor that you scan freely around until you come across one of the icons. To see it, click on the icon to see what is in that particular room.
And finally, the walkthrough.
This won’t be an exact walkthrough, but it will give you an idea of what to do. When you replay this game several times to get all the different endings, you at least know what to look for.
The game opens with a scantily clad woman that you find out later on is Reed Hawke’s sexy assistant Chantel. Soon a man with a gun comes in and scans the room. This is security man Frank. Chantel throws him on the bed and takes his gun. She makes him handcuff his hands to the bed. Then Chantel proceeds to rip his clothes off. She prepares to do more, but she gets a phone call. It is Reed Hawke. She gets dressed, but leaves Frank where he is and doesn’t uncuff him. Women, it figures.
SATURDAY AFTERNOON
You are in your apartment across from Hawke Manor. You get a phone call, actually your answering machine picks it up. Your employer tells you that Reed Hawke must be stopped. The employer essentially tells you how to play the game. When the phone call is done, click on the TV. You get a news report on Reed Hawke. It is here that you receive information on all the family members. It is important that you see the whole thing. Next click on the camcorder and really start the game.
SATURDAY 4:00 P.M.
Start looking around. Scan the windows, when you get one of the three icons already listed, left click to see what it is. If you scan Hawke’s sexy assistant Chantel’s office, click on her computer screen and get a background press release on Hawke himself and the rest of the family. To get out of a room you’re viewing, right click. Scan other windows.
SATURDAY 7:00 P.M.
Mostly empty rooms. Hawke’s son Zach and his wife come in. While in another room security man Frank and Chantel are fooling around, you only hear them, when the intercom buzzes. Frank discovers it’s Zach and tells Zach to come in another way.
One thing I want to say right now about this game. There are different things happening in different rooms at the same time. The storyline and who tries to betray Hawke depends on what you are watching. It’s like puzzle pieces, but different pieces make different puzzles. This is why this game must be played many times to get all the subplots.
SATURDAY 7:30 P.M.
Several rooms are happening with things, I will only list a few. You will find other things that I didn’t mention. Zach is going upstairs griping about his dad. Downstairs, Hawke’s sister Margaret, is welcoming Hawke’s daughter Jessica and her japanese boyfriend. Then Frank grabs a stranger in a leather coat. This is Margaret’s daughter and Hawke’s niece Chloe. When Frank recognizes her, she knees him in the groin. Scan other windows.
SATURDAY 8:00 P.M.
Once again, several things are happening in different rooms at once. Chloe is in her bedroom very apprehensive when Hawke talks to he on the intercom. Check for other things in other rooms.
SUNDAY 10:00 A.M.
You get a phone call from Chantel about your spying. As you scan the windows, lots of adult things going on. Man, Bill Clinton would love this place! One room had Hawke’s daughter Jessica and her boyfriend fooling around. Chantel and Frank are doing a fetish in which Frank has a collar around his neck barking like a dog. Check the other windows.
SUNDAY 2:00 P.M.
Many things going on. Click on Hawke’s office and on his computer monitor. You get additional info on family members, depending on when you click on the computer. Another room has Hawke and his sister Margaret in a provocative position talking about Hawke killing their father and Margaret in on the plot. Boy this family is whacked.
SUNDAY 4:30 P.M.
Chloe is flirting with Jessica’s boyfriend. In another room Jessica is talking with Hawke about his company’s accidental poisoning of a japanese village’s water. Lot’s of other things happening in the house, check all the windows.
SUNDAY 8:00 P.M.
Jessica and her boyfriend discover Hawke and get into an argument. In another room Zach’s wife and Chloe are in an interesting moment with a red leather dress. Check other windows.
SUNDAY 8:30 P.M.
Things start to really heat up. Zach’s wife and Hawke talk where he leads her to another room. Margaret is looking at a scrap book. Jessica and Zach are talking and her hands her a file on her boyfriend who is an eco-terrorist. In another room Hawke makes a pass at Zach’s wife. Man, Hawke must be based on Bill Clinton. Check other windows for conversations.
SUNDAY 9:00 P.M.
Just when you thought it couldn’t get spicier, this game surprises. Much is happening and how the game ends now depends on where you decide to watch or listen. I’ll give you a small sample of what is going on.
Chloe confronts Hawke on his raping her at 14 years of age. She wants money or she’ll expose him. He threatens her. Jessica confronts her Japanese eco-terrorist boyfriend. Check other windows.
SUNDAY 10:00 P.M.
Much is happening. You really have to play this more than once to get all the action. Here’s a sample: Zach’s wife and Jessica discuss their men. Zach and Hawke argue. Chloe has a duffle bag full of cash. I guess Hawke paid. Meanwhile Margaret digs up something in her flower garden. Zach discovers his computer disk stolen. Check the windows for more action.
SUNDAY 10:30 P.M.
This is a pivotal time now. All windows must be watched. A family member will be murdered. But who? It all depends on what you have been observing all this time. Everytime I have played a different family member gets killed. The suspense is incredible. This is my favorite part of the whole game.
MONDAY MORNING
Reed Hawke has a press conference and announces the death of a family member. Then the callous S.O.B. announces his candidacy for President of the United States. Hopefully you caught the murder on videotape. Call the cops and turn in the tape. If you did catch the murder, you get a cool ending. If you don’t, the cops get mad at you and the game ends there.
This is a very adult themed game. But it is a good one. This has to be played many times. You will get different scenes everytime you focus on different windows. I hope this walkthrough gives you a little taste on what you need to do.