Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Final Cut contains "extracts from six Hitchcock films ("Psycho", "Frenzy", "Torn Curtain", "Rope", "Saboteur" and "Shadow of a Doubt")". "Game Informer" said that with games like "Alfred Hitchcock Presents The Final Cut", Ubisoft's PC catalog is an area where the company is able to experiment and take risks. The game received "mixed" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. IGN wrote that the game offered "no suspense, puzzles of little interest, poor dialog, a tortuous storyline, and awkward control". ActionTrip concluded that "using Hitchcock's name and work was a good marketing move, but, unfortunately the game quality doesn't live up to
Alfred Hitchcock for the company, "The Man Who Knew Too Much" (1934), was a success; his second, "The 39 Steps" (1935), was acclaimed in the UK and made Hitchcock a star in the US. It also established the quintessential English "Hitchcock blonde" (Madeleine Carroll) as the template for his succession of ice-cold, elegant leading ladies. Screenwriter Robert Towne remarked, "It's not much of an exaggeration to say that all contemporary escapist entertainment begins with "The 39 Steps"". This film was one of the first to introduce the "MacGuffin" plot device, a term coined by the English screenwriter Angus MacPhail. The MacGuffin is