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Nancy Drew: Stay Tuned for Danger

Nancy Drew: Stay Tuned for Danger

List Price: $19.99
Your Price: $14.99
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Rating: 3 stars
Summary: 12 year old Nancy Drew Software Lover
Review: I do recomend "Stay tuned for danger" to kids 11 and up This was my seconed Nancy Drew game I didn't finish "Secrets can Kill." Stay tuned for Danger is easy utill I reached a part where I still can not pass although I do get help from my cosion who is 22. The game starts out that a star from a T.V. show has been recieving death threats. You as Nancy have to find who is causing them.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: An OLD sleuth revived...
Review: My younger days were spent with my nose in a Nancy Drew book and I read almost every one the other day I was in the store and saw this Nancy Drew Stay Tuned for Danger game and thought I'd treat myself to see what it was about. I had become so bored with the computer lately!

I love this game...it does have it's quirks and I did think I was stuck, but with the help of my 11 year old son, he helped me figure some things out. Today when I talked to him on the phone he was working on solving this although he would never tell his friends he was doing a "Nancy Drew game"...so while I can't wait to play the next games They would love these!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: THE BEST DETECTIVE GAMES EVER
Review: I LOVE NANCY DREW BOOKS AND SO I THOUGHT I WOULD TRY THE COMPUTER GAMES. I HAVE ALL THE NANCY DREW GAMES NOW AND CAN'T WAIT FOR THE NEXT TO COME OUT. STAY TUNED FOR DANGER IS ONE OF MY FAVORITES. THERE ARE SECRET PASSAGE WAYS TO FIND AND EXPLORE AS WELL AS PUZZLE'S TO SOLVE. I LIKE THE NANCY DREW GAMES BECAUSE THEY ARE FRUSTRATING AND SUSPENSEFUL. THERE WERE PLACES WHERE I GOT STUCK AND IT TOOK ME QUITE A WHILE TO FIGURE OUT. IT'S KIND OF LIKE READING A NANCY DREW BOOK BECAUSE YOU GET SO ANXIOUS AND YOU WANT TO FIND OUT WHO DID WHAT. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THESE GAMES.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Great Adventure game
Review: I reccomend this game to ages 9 & up. This is an adventure game, where a soap opera star is recieving death threats(don't worry- it has NOTHING to do with soap operas!LOL)and his co-star and friend, Mattie Jensen wants you to help him and stop the threats. You, in the shoes of Nancy Drew, go and solve intriguing puzzles, explore off limit places, and go undercover as an intern in the studio. Will Nancy solve the case? Play it and see!...

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: TIed with FIN for second place!
Review: I loved this game. It has riddles, and is fun! My fav is TRT. FIN is tied with this one, cause I can't chose, then SCK, then MHM. It has great graphics!

I can't wait for SSH!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: "Great Entertainment"
Review: My daughter and I have all five Nancy Drew cd's. I enjoy sitting
down with her and trying to solve the mysteries. The 3d graphics
are great and the music goes along with the different scenes.
My daughter rarely lets me move around the scenes, but I am always there for the tough situations she cannot quite figure out yet. We scream and fuss at different situations, and there
have been times when we cannot go to sleep, we just have to
figure it out. It's a cd for parents and kids to spend time
together. We are waiting for the 6th one to come out. Everyone
should try at least one Nancy Drew, I'm sure they would enjoy it
also. The stay tuned for danger game had two cd's, I prefer only one, it gets to be a bother having to switch out cd's, otherwise the game was fun also. Let us know when the 6th one comes out!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: A step in the Right Direction
Review: This was a step in the right direction when Herinteractive released Stay Tuned For Danger with 3D characters instead of the cartoon ones.Like the Drew games after this,this is a great game.Exept i hate it when they had items under others.It makes the game more difficult.I also really hate the slide puzzles.I really dont know why they put them in there.Everyone i talked to hates them.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: What a good but frustrating game !!!!!!!
Review: I think this game is pretty good.The problem is I am stuck in a place in which I don't know what to do!!!! This game is pretty much very challenging.Although it is exciting!!!

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Stay Tuned for Danger
Review: This is an okay game, but I do have some complaints. The graphics are good, but when you enter a room to talk to someone (for instance, if you want to talk to Rick Arlen, you'll have to wait for a few seconds because he will 'comb' his hair, and then notice you. This also happens for when you would like to talk to Mattie Jensen.) Also, when you want to zoom around, you back up instead, and you can only turn at a specific angle. And although I finished this game (with nights of frustration), I had to go to the herinteractive.com website for hints from other people who have already finished this game before me. And when you have to find something, you can only get it when you click at a certain angle, and most of the times you must click repeatedly. Bess, George, and Ned are a bit of a nuinsance, they give you hints to do things that you have already done.

And so, as a conclusion, I give Stay Tuned for Danger a C-.

(If you are starting on the Nancy Drew games, I reccomend getting one of the later games in the series, such as The Final Scene. )

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: stay tuned for frustration
Review: My wife and I are both college graduates and enjoyed playing the later games in the Nancy Drew Series (Mansion and Final Scene) very much, however this game fell real short of our expectations. For starters the interface is clumsy and does not allow the player to see or interact with critical items unless they are approached from a certain angle. Often the player will find him or herself relying more on repetitive clicking of certain areas, than using the deductive reasoning involved in solving the later games in the series. At times, the game seems more like a "whereisit?" than a "whodunnit?".

The game is too linear at times, in that you must do certain things that do not seem crucial to the plot in order to proceed to other events, yet at times the game lets you proceed onto other events unprepared, setting the player up for great dissapointment (tip: do not save the game in the "bomb scene" unless you have found the wirecutters).

Perhaps the most dissapointing thing about the game, when compared to the later games in the series, is the lack of realism in both the dialouge and puzzles in the game. There are too many times when the game should include the opportunity to question suspects to get a better grasp on their personalities and does not. This is not a problem in the later games which usually include thoughtful conversations with the suspects.

Many of the puzzles also make you feel like you are jumping through the programmers' "hoops" instead of relying on logic. The final puzzle is particularly worthy of note in this case, as you are given a timed puzzle which can only be solved by trial and error. At times in the game, you are given seemingly solvable puzzles that do not have impact on the progession of the game (such as word jumbles that state obvious things). At other times you are misled to believe that you can find important clues by performing certain actions, which lead nowhere. Realistic solutions to puzzles are also sparse in this game. For example, at one point, you are required to cut some wires (in a hurry), but are not allowed to pick up a scalpel that is right in front of you.

On a more positive note, the game does have and excellent story line and sometime seemed as though it would redeem itself, but each time it began to flow nicely gameplay was hindered by another problem. In sum, stay away from stay tuned for danger and start with the later games in the series if you want to try a Nancy Drew adventure.


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