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Summary: Third times the charm!!!
Review: I bought a copy of this game as soon as I could. When I got home I put it in and have loved it ever since! From talking with Catherine, to being stuck in a cage with a bird flying you around a HUGH tree, to being a human marble rolled through a maze of paths, this is the BEST Myst game ever! It has had some problems with some computers but anyone who has had the time to look past that has had the best time playing this game. This is definitely one of those games no one should miss!
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Summary: Breathtaking, Isn¿t it?
Review: The first words you hear, when the game opens are "Breathtaking, Isn't it?". The rest of the adventure answers that question with a resounding "YES!!". The graphics and sounds are top notch, the most detailed and realistic I have ever seen on a PC! The new 360-degree viewing is very easy to use. Although the primary story line is thin, and linear, it is still heart-pumping. The puzzles are well designed and engineered, and are actually fun to tackle, so far! It is not as frustrating as Myst or Riven, but still challenging. The only thing worthy of complaint is that its "3D" mode is not compatible with Voodoo2 or Voodoo3. Computers with those cards will have degraded graphics quality. I have an ATI Rage card, so my graphics are better! I have not actually completed the whole game yet, but I will be more than happy to spend much of my free time in the alternative worlds this game offers.
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Summary: CD-ROM drive problems in computers with multiple hard drives
Review: I bought Myst III over one week ago. Until now, I have not been able to play this game at all. Here is why: After installation, the game needs CD-ROM disk 2 in order to start the game. However, after I loaded the appropriate disk, the program did not recognize that it was, in fact, in the drive and kept requesting it. I finally went to the Myst website for assistance. There, I found that Ubisoft "is aware of the problem and for now recommends to the user to change the drive letter of the CD-ROM drive to 'something lower than H'". Added is a small, short note with a warning that "changing the drive letter could cause other programs to not work correctly". It continues with "...We are working on a better fix for the problem...". So of course I am not going to change my drive letters around - who knows what that will do to my system! While I am happy that Ubisoft apparently is aware of the problem, it bugs me immensely that they would throw such a game out on the market which obviously isn't up to today's systems. My CD-ROM drive is drive letter N, and I can honestly say that no game I have played in the past has ever had trouble recognizing it. I have now shelled out money for a game that sits on the shelf until Ubisoft comes up with that promised fix - inquiries about how long this will take were not answered to this day. I can only imagine how many more troubles are waiting for me once I'll get around the disk 2 problem. As to the game itself: I wish I could say something about it. I really do!
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Summary: You Ought to know...
Review: that people who actually enjoy games will be laughing at all of you who buy any Myst game. They are the utmost in laziness in taking advantage of what a game can really be, just a series of logic puzzles with backgrounds of computer generated pictures and an average bit of fantasy story tacked on. Just look at all the technical problems people are having... does that not prove to you that these guys are doing the bare minimum and laughing all the way to the bank that their game keeps going on 'the buzz'? Do you really HAVE to own this game you will hardly play just because someone you know mentioned it? Because it stinks, and it's a disgrace to the real game industry.
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Summary: Transdimentional travel from inner space
Review: I just finished MystIII:Exile and was not disappointed (while I was, a little bit, by Riven). First of all, I ran it on a G3 iMac at 400 MHz, and did not encounter any trouble, except for the fact that my finder could not support pop-up windows after launching it (because of the change of screen resolution). I did a full install, and it seemed that I did not even need the disc 1 to start the program. The game, by itself, was familiar (I have played the two others) and it was even more familiar since it used "The Journeyman project 3" 360 degres panning ability (from the same company, I think). Still, progression through the worlds is still slide-like (while in "The journeyman", you got movies to keep the impression of moving through places [well, yeah, I am a big fan of "The JourneyMan project 2 and 3"]). Exile is a hybrid between the two previous games: you get Riven's awsome graphics, but you have the exploration of different worlds from Myst that was missing in Riven (although, in Riven, you had several worlds in one place, it's not the same feel as jumping from one universe to the other [when you got to link to another world, you can't explore it...]). Puzzles are not too hard, though I'm sure non-nerdy game players (which I'd like to be [a nerdy game player;)], even though they seem so "blase";) with new releases) will find them quite difficult, and they are logical, given you follow the peculiar logic of these worlds. Concerning the people saying they got through too fast, I would like to add that, yes, it seems easier now that we have played the first two games (and that clones of Myst have appeared), but I wouldn't bet on you going so fast if this had been released at the time instead of the original Myst (without considering the obvious impossibility [eg, that it could not have been released at the time. Not under this form, anyway]). So, at it stands, it is a nice equilibrium between beautiful graphics, medium complexity of puzzles and good story telling (other aspects have been mentionned in previous reviews). The ending was, to me, a little bit disappointing. Maybe because it goes too fast, compared to the time you spend (even if not that great) solving some of the puzzles. On the other hand, the sequences following the final solvings for each world visited before was worth it.
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Summary: Wait now or wait later...
Review: Well, I consider a factory-configured Micron 667 running Windows 98 to be a "normal" computer. Myst III locks it up every time! Their website tells me they are aware of the problem and are working on it. If they can tell us that on the day the game was released, why didn't they FIX THE GAME before they released it? Myst I was a model of stability. Seven years and a thousand games later, this is ridiculous!
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Summary: The story of Myst moves foward (big time)
Review: I just got the game, and people complain about how it crashes, and messes up the pc, and that they have problems installing it. Well it seems to me that they need new computers, because i have a DVD-Rom, with a CD-Writer and it installed just fine. Now, on about the game... it has to be the best Myst yet. You can fully turn without having to click, but you still must click to go foward. The villain is also pretty cool. He's kind of funny.The graphics have also been upgraded fully. If you thought Riven looked good, you haven't seen anything yet. You also get to communicate with characters more than Riven. Some of the puzzles on Myst 3 are very difficult though, and can leave you flipping through a walkthrough. But remember, there is always a way out.
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Summary: Gorgeous Execution for Macintosh Users
Review: Gotta take a poke at all the PeeCees crashing out there. This game runs beautifully and fluidly on my Macintosh G4 with ZERO problems encountered. Awwww! I feel so bad for you. That aside, the game is incredible, and the 360 degree panoramas are a major improvement. My only complaint is that some of the texture mapping isn't as good as Riven's, and often the colors are too garish. Still the game will absorb you and is a pleasure to play.
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Summary: Macintosh Buyers Beware!
Review: After thoughly enjoying the original Myst and Riven games, I am severly dissappointed by Exile - and I haven't gotten a chance to really play it yet! I tried the typical install on my iMac. The movies ran jerkily and the sound was atrocious! I couldn't run it on the Full Install because it requires a whopping 2.36G. My husband tried running it on his newer iMac and it also had syncing problems between the sound and video. He's a guru at Mac issues so we're tweaking in hopes of getting it to run - but we really shouldn't have to do this. I suspect UBI Soft developed this on PCs instead of Macs like Cyan did and transported it to the Mac platform which often causes such problems. So, if you have a Mac and want to play Exile you might want to hold off a bit! I'll write another review if it actually works because I still want to see those great graphics shown in the trailers!
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Summary: One of the best games I've ever played!
Review: My guess is that I'm only about one quarter of the way through this game but already I'm completely flabbergasted! The imagination these people display simply cannot be done any justice with mere words. You have to see this s**t for yourself. Although you will have to play it on a machine with the latest 3D graphics card support and plenty of memory. (I've got a Macintosh Powerbook G3 with 512MBs of RAM and a built-in ATI Rage128 3D card so I'm styling.) My only criticism of the game would be in the cornball performances of the live characters that seem to come from the Deep Space Nine School of acting. But thank God these vignettes are few and far between. What the hell, it's not a movie, it's a computer game so no harm done. So my advice is to take a week off of work, buy a copy of this game (along with a new 3D card), unplug your telephone and get lost in this amazing world. You won't be disappointed. So far I'm not.
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