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Summary: won't run on notebook computers
Review: UBI Soft is only supporting the following video cards: so buyer beware: 32MB NVIDIA GeForce 1,2,3, 4 or FX; ATI Radeon 7000-9800 or better. URU has been found to NOT run on: Radeon Mobility (the Radeon notebook chip set), NVIDIA go (the NVIDIA notebook equivalent), and the intel chip set. These 3 chip sets are used in the majority of notebook computers.
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Summary: Also feeling ripped off....
Review: I also have the Intel chipset in my computer. I bought this game (which I've been looking forward to for a long time) on its first day of release, and was bitterly disappointed. I could have been saved a lot of grief had I known it just would not run on my Intel graphics card; this should have been made abundantly clear on the package under system requirements. After all, the Intel graphics card seems to be pre-installed on most computers nowadays. Only recently have I compiled enough research from the Ubi support site and Amazon reviewers to realize my mistake. This is the very first game I've bought that I can't run on my computer, and believe me I've bought plenty. I couldn't return this one because it was opened, so it sits worthless and idle in my desk because I refuse to go out and buy and install a new graphics card (I suspect perhaps Ubi and certain graphics card manufacturers may be in business together). Anyway, IF YOU HAVE AN INTEL GRAPHICS CARD, don't waste your money like the rest of us have.
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Summary: Uru - Great gaming for all ages!
Review: The latest in the Myst/Riven/Exile series follows in the tradition of "pushing the envelope" the folks at Cyan have been so good at for over ten years! Uru is not strictly a sequel but part of an ongoing saga. While it is a "must buy" for avid Myst fans, it would also captivate someone who has never played a Myst game.This game is intended to be played on-line with a broadband connection to the Internet, but the boxed version contains a single-player game that is an outstanding follow-on in the Myst tradition. The single-player game is the prerequisite for going on-line, and the first month of on-line play is included in the price. Visit their web site at http://uru.ubi.com/ for a preview and additional details. This game has something for everyone - spectacular graphics, challenging puzzles, and a story line that follows the back story of the Myst sagas. An informal survey of about 200 current players shows an even distribution of ages from late teens through "over 60." The game is played in the third person - you start off by creating an avatar - a graphic representation of yourself. In the game, "U R U" - You Are You, and you're actually in the game. That's not to say you can't improve on nature a bit. I'm in my late-50's and admit to having shaved a few years and a few pounds when I created my avatar! You control your avatar as you explore the worlds that you are actually walking, running, and jumping through, interacting with various objects to open doors, operate machinery, gain information, and progress through the game. The on-line version is even more exciting, adding the exploration of a vast underground city together with your fellow adventurers with whom you interact visually and with real-time voice communication. If you're not familiar with the Myst saga, it revolves around an ancient civilization called the D'ni that has developed a way of traveling from world to world (called "Ages" in the game) using special books called Linking Books. Each of the games has four or five Ages, and Uru is no exception, with six Ages in the single-player version. Each offers a totally different opportunity to explore, solve puzzles, and learn more of the background story that is being woven together into an elaborate tapestry. The on-line version promises even more Ages for the adventurer, probably at the rate of one new Age every one or two months. I've been playing adventure games since the "original" - ADVENT by Crowther and Woods in 1979, and Uru is a worthy latest step in the development of this genre. Like all of the Cyan games, there is no violence or gore, and the game is suitably rated "E" for everyone. Uru offers a challenging and enjoyable experience for adventurers of all ages.
Highly recommended! Walt Scrivens
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Summary: I Love the game but it isn't MYST!
Review: I did enjoy this game overall, and I would recommend it to all MYST lovers, but be prepared for a somewhat frustrating change. I am a HUGE fan of the MYST series, which I would have given 5 stars each, I love the no stress atmosphere they have always brought into play. This game however, while it's fun and Beautiful, in the MYST tradition, has to a lesser extent, the character control aggravation of Tomb Raider games, without the shooting and fighting, of course! The "avatar" is often difficult to move in the direction you want to go and there are some puzzles that require specific Physical aspects to solve them. Once I got more comfortable with the control it was less stressful, but I would have prefered NOT to have had that change in the series. I'm afraid there will be many Myst fans who will not ever finish the game because of this. . :(
I also felt that those puzzles which required the physical parts were harder because the logic wasn't always there. Even as I stumbled on the "answer", or turned to a walkthrough, which I didn't have to do in previous MYST games, I wonderd how was I supposed to have "Figured" that out. . . . guess you're not, you just have to accidentally discover it, or "cheat"! I also was disappointed that they made this game so high in the system requirements area!! I just got a new computer, with lots of gaming "power" so I was fine and have plenty of "system" to handle it, but I know others who had to update several aspects of their computers in order to play!! I think the game developers need to give us a break, after all, who can afford to update hardware every time a new game we love comes out??
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Summary: absolutely painful
Review: the UI in this game is a freaking joke..dont waste the money....there's already a bunch of used copies of this game for sale here at amazon....clearly im not the only one who thinks this game inferior...its too bad as the previous games of myst were excellent...oh well
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Summary: To: Feeling Ripped Off
Review: You say that you were ripped off by Amazon and Ubi while this isn't true at all. It says right there in the system requirments "3-D graphics video card with 32 MB RAM, and hardware transformation and lighting capability". Your Integrated Intel Video card does not have 32MB of ram and also does not support T&L. Don't blame Amazon and Ubi because of your own ignorance.
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Summary: Consumers be Warned
Review: I read the review "feel ripped off" I completly understand this person's anger , this happend to me with the Anniversary dvd edition of Myst/ (Riven) does not work and is a know problem with some video cards which Ubisoft knows about, while on the site i checked to see if my card would be compatiable with URU hence as the reviewer wrote it would not support it , i have Intel intergrated chipset also. I think all stores or online sites should post this info as soon as it becomes available, too many burned consumers out there.
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Summary: Feeling Ripped Off By Amazon and UBI? I am!!!!!
Review: Feeling ripped off? I am! I bought this game through Amazon, but first I checked the "systems requirements" to make sure it would run on my PC. Looked good - got game - can't install or play it because - guess what - I don't have the right video card or sound card!!!! This game doesn't work with INTEL graphics controller!!! INTEL, for $#@# sake! Can't return to Amazon because it's opened! So please, trusting consumers, DON'T BUY THIS PRODUCT without doing some solid research - which is what I should have done, but no...I trusted Amazon and UBI/CYAN. Big mistake. p.s. I only filled in one star up above because I had to in order to get this review posted.
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Summary: Some Good News and Some Bad News
Review: Uru: Ages Beyond Myst continues the superb quality of graphics, sound and story line that made Myst, Riven, and Exile so enjoyable. So too does it continue the tradition of puzzles which can be solved in the context of clues existing in the Uru "world" (some are very difficult, but that's as it should be). All of this is the good news. On the minus side, the game developers apparently thought it would be a neat idea to require some physical exertion: jumping, running, jumping while running, etc. Some of these maneuvers must be performed by your game persona within some rigidly defined areas, and the penalty for failing is the need to try again... and again, and again. It's almost as if the design team hired a laid-off arcade game developer at some point in the development process. Shades of some of the early C64 games! I digress. Definitely recommend this game to the veterans of the Myst worlds and to newcomers alike. It's a good game -- perhaps even a great game, but could be even better if the component of physical action had been avoided.
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Summary: I REALLY HOPE...
Review: that the graphic design and rendering on this is MUCH better than on MYST 3 EXILE-I nearly fell out of my seat laughing at the amatuer designs, and cartoonish look of that world.
To me RIVEN set a standard, and I was hoping that 5 years of computer advancement would have created a state-of-the-art looking game, not a stylized version of LEGEND OF ZELDA.
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