Trapped: The Abduction is a Hidden Object game quite unlike most of the other games I've ever played in that genre. Its whole premise is that you play an abductee named Helene who is trying to escape her captor. So right off the bat, it's kinda dark.

Unfortunately, the darkness and eerie urban decay vibe you'll get form the visuals is completely ruined by the terrible voice acting of the two main characters. Once in a while you'll get some barely-under-control shivery voice work from the actress playing Helene, but the guy who plays the role of the abductor goes over the top with his rendition, using a weird accent that I couldn't place at first. Later, after a setting in which the lights go out and Helene is forced to wear night vision goggles, I finally realized what they were trying to do. They wanted to evoke Silence of the Lambs. But that's a trick that only works well once, and then only when Anthony Hopkins is playing the role.

It also doesn't help when the graphic for the abductor makes him look like the Unabomber.

At any rate, this is gameplay we've all seen dozens of times. You're presented with a list of items to find, you click on each one, there's a hint feature, etc. The only thing that changes from the usual is that after stripping a room of its objects, you'll be asked to complete certain puzzles in the scene. But "puzzles" in this sense is very rudimentary, amounting to mousing over an area to cause a question mark to appear. When this happens, Helene talks to herself about what she needs to do to progress.

For example, the game starts with Helene locked in the trunk of a car. The trunk is strewn with objects, and some of them yield question marks when moused over. The lock of the trunk requires jimmying, so you're tasked with finding objects that will help with that. The trunk is also the location of regular Hidden Object gameplay, and all the items are similarly dirtied up and monochrome, making it a little difficult to find things sometimes.

There are also mini-"games" where you'll have to pick up a bunch of broken glass by hand, or break a car window by smashing all glass piece by piece. These are more annoying than interesting, and the game could have done without them.

The voice acting as mentioned before is overly-done and melodramatic, with the abductor trying to sound scary and ending up more goofy than anything else. Helene herself is okay, but the dialogue she's forced to speak is atrocious, which doesn't help.

All in all, if you're into the Hidden Object genre, you might want to give this a try, but it's got some issues that make it a sub-par experience. You can grab the demo right here on Big Download just for the Mac.