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Summary: The Learning Company should be ashamed of this product!
Review: DON'T BUY THIS GAME! Our family enjoyed a previous edition of this game and looked forward to the 4th edition. What a spectacular let down. We don't have a new computer, but to make this game run we were expected to "tweak" our system to a level below the computer we retired in 1998! The technical support people at TLC are totally unhelpful. The only suggestions they offer are the same as those printed in the "read me" file. Quick Time 4.0 prevents this game from running, so you have to downgrade to the Quick Time 3.0 version that is bundled with the game. Since Quick Time 4 was part of my Windows system files (and not a separate program file) you can imagine the headache messing with this caused. It is absurd that The Learning Company expects a "new" game to require a version of Quick Time that is no longer available and which has no support. I spent hours adjusting our system to run the game and guess what? IT IS AN AWFUL GAME. If I hadn't spent money and hours of my time DOWNGRADING my computer it would be funny. The game is pasted together with scenery from previous versions. Extremely poor game design, pitiful graphics, and clunky gaming. Not since the days when Windows was first replacing DOS have I installed a game that was such a pain to set up and so undependable in play. Save your money, don't buy this game.
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Summary: Severe Dissapointment
Review: I admit, I was a fool, I went out and bought this game despite the reviews. It was awful! You don't even get to create the charactors you will embark with. It is slow, it takes 20 + minutes just to cross a river! It is nothing like the previous games, and that is a dissapointment. If I were you, I would NOT waste my money on this game. The Learning Company should be ashamed to call this their own.
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Summary: Can't find any people to be a companion!
Review: I bought this for my 13 year old son for Christmas. He tried for hours to find a companion in the game to take with him on the trail, and no people appear (except the ones that work in the shops). I tried it to, and I can't find anyone, so we can't even get started on playing the game! It's frustrating for both of us.
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Summary: Oregon Trail 4 - not what you would expect
Review: I do not recommend buying this game. The first one I bought loaded fine, but I could never move out of first gear. There were no people in the hotel and I could not join a wagon or advance. All the double clicking in the world would not get this game to work. I exchanged the game for another and the exact same senario occured. Bad batch of CD? I think so. Buy the way, the first and second editions of this software are the best. The third edition keeps crashing on the 3rd CD. The Learning Company needs to get their act together.
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Summary: Not so good.
Review: I got this as a gift, because I loved playing Oregon Trail in grade school. This version, though having much prettier graphics, isn't nearly as fun. Half the fun of playing it was naming all the people after your family, and reading the dirty limericks people wrote on the gravestones. Save your money, don't buy this.
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Summary: I love this game
Review: I got this game for baby-sitting we loaded it on and the people did not work. We got with the technical support and they told us to got to broderbrund.com they told us how to get the people to work the only thing the didn't tell us was to totally delete the game when you are done with the process. Most people don't like this game true Oregon Trail 2 was the best yet with lots more trails to go on and such. There is some difficulties with this game but all in all it has only exited twice on me. It probably is just the peoples computer. Note the disapering people usally only happen with Windows. I also think that you should read the box that's says 10! and up seven year olds should not play this game enless they know the reason people got those illness's. This game is very educational and great for older kids.
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Summary: Love it
Review: I had no problems with the Program. My kids and I enjoy it It crashed once but we had saved the game and just started it back up where we had saved it. As with any game I recomend you save the game as you make it past milestones. My son enjoyed hunting and my daughter enjoyed the wild rides down the mountain sides. "Its like a roller coaster" she said.We have a pentuim 2 processor and great graphics package. The program worked great on our computer.
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Summary: Oregon Trail 4
Review: I have never used the previous versions of Oregon Trail. After reading so many negative reviews I feel I have to speak up. I am a 3rd grade teacher and I can say in a few simple words that my students love this game. It helps them think and make decisions. We have 20 copies of this game in a computer lab and none have had technical difficulties.
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Summary: frustrating to use
Review: I like some of the changes made between this one and edition number 3 but I agree with the other reviews in terms of technical problems. It took a while to figure out how to get it to work. Only when I changed my monitor to show high color vs. true color could I get it to work and then I only happened to try this based on the system requirements listed on the box not based on instructions for set-up. Even so I still keep coming up with technical glitches that I didn't have with the earlier edition.
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Summary: Don't buy Oregon Trails 4
Review: I only wish I had read these reviews before I wasted my money on this game. Oregon Trails 3 was 10 times better. Even the first edition was lots better. Not only is the playing of it slow and boring, but theres technicals problems. It was a total disappointment!
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