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Summary: A BORING DISAPPOINTMENT
Review: Loved Myst & Riven and played them till my eyes nearly fell out. I looked forward to Exile for so long and the day I finally got it I unplugged the phone and thought I was in for months of superb gaming... how wrong can a person be.. I can sum up this game in one word: BORING. I got through the 1st age which consisted of one really LONG & DULL puzzle. I hoped the next age would be better - no. I was faced with more pointless lever pulling & dial turning and thought - no I can't face this anymore. It was just too difficult & uninteresting! Very unhappy I uninstalled the game and sold it after just a week. My recommendation to UBI Soft is to allow more interface with the environment (add an inventory for example) and try to let more actually happen. Walking though screen after screen to pull a lever which MIGHT do something is not fun. I do like the spartan feel of the trilogy but perhaps some more character interaction wouldn't go amiss. To anyone considering buying this - don't. Even if you LOVED Myst & Riven I'd be amazed if you liked this.
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Summary: Please read this before you buy the game
Review: If you want to buy this game i would not recomend it. It will be fun in the beginning but it get old very fast. It is not the best game i have gotten, you might like it but it is very callenging and hard to beat. I would rather buy 'Reign of fire.' Reign of fire is a very great game...remember myst3 is a very hard game.
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Summary: AMAZING! ...
Review: Exile is awesome! It's more confusing than Myst and Riven, though. I'm on the part with the three "symbol-cameras".
I think it's even better than Riven, but to tell you the truth...I...er...didn't finish Riven(I couldn't help it: Exile looked so exciting!...).
The music is ASTOUNDING! I wish it was on a cd. The graphics are rad and the story is far out! GET EXILE!
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Summary: A total waste of money!
Review: This was my first Myst game and I was extremely disappointed, because it was so boring and hard to move around. If you like games where you're in control, then this game will really put you to sleep. The graphics were the best I've ever seen, but the way you're supposed to play the game is so different from other role playing games that make it seem so unrealistic. In ALL other games, you press a button or move the left stick forward to make a person walk, but in this game, you press a button and you're moved forward, eventually, but not realistically. It just wasn't any fun and I'm sorry I wasted my money on it.
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Summary: A disappointment
Review: This game was not nearly as good as Myst and Riven. The developers haven't done anything new here so the game was pretty easy to solve. The story line is old and the puzzles are no longer innovative. Bring us something new guys! If you are a fan of the other 2 Myst games, you won't miss anything by skipping this one.
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Summary: Win XP
Review: Many people said not to buy this game because it won't work on XP. I have the game running just fine on XP. When I first installed the game a message popped up that said the game won't run on "Windows NT". I just clicked the ok button and continued to install and it worked. I'm glad I didn't listen to those guys. This game is pretty fun.
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Summary: Myst III: Exile
Review: This has got to be one of the most intriguing, well-made games (with such great graphics!) since... well... Riven. Each world is very detailed and beautiful. The puzzles are very complicated, yet solvable. Brad Dourif is one of my favorite actors, and I love him in this. My personal favorite age has got to be Amateria. Fantastic! VERY HIGHLY RECCOMENDED.
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Summary: Samo, samo, very boring!
Review: I played the previous game, Myst and Riven. But it has been enough, this game is too much of the same thing; same kind of graphics, same kind of story and again a lot of reading to do! While in other adventure games the story and clues are incoorporated in conversations, incidents etc, in these games it all comes down to reading a lot of books that feature in the game. Dear makers: if I wanted to read a book I would not play a computergame!
The graphics are again fabulous, but the scenes and the puzzles in this game seemed very similar to those in the previous games. I did not find the puzzles very exciting either, and yes, I admit, often too difficult. I prefer puzzles where objects have to picked up and applied later, with some ordinary puzzles thrown in ocasionally. In Myst III it is mostly ordinary puzzles.
My advice: give this game a miss and choose Atlantis III (Beyond Atlantis II) or The longest Journey (although the puzzles in the latter may be too easy for the fanatic Myst III player).
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Summary: Brilliant Acting, Ingriguing Puzzles, & Great Graphics
Review: First of all, I was actually able to solve the puzzles on my own. With Myst and Riven, I had a bunch of trouble understanding the puzzles, and when I finally found the solutions on the internet, I realized that I would never have figured those puzzles out by myself! Exile is so much better. The puzzles seem so obvious once you figure them out, but figuring them out is quite a challenge in some places. I also really enjoyed the way each age ended. I don't want to ruin any suprises, but the endings of each age are very exciting to watch! 3D rendering really adds to the effect. Now, instead of a whole bunch of pictures, you get 3D shots everywhere you go. Amazing how technology can improve so drastically over time! Finally, check out the acting. Brad Dourif, who plays the villian, has some amazing monologues -- especially towards the end of the game. Dourif really enhances the already lively storyline with his acting. What else can I say? This game rocks! As long as you have a fast computer, a good amount of patience, and you enjoyed the first two games, you should buy this one. P.S. A word of caution: Do not begin playing this game without completing Myst and Riven first. This game assumes that you already know one of the most important secrets in the earlier storylines...
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Summary: Myst - a matter of taste
Review: Myst was the first game I bought. I bought it for the simple reason of having once stolen a wistful look at the back of the box. I was stricken by the photographic detail of its graphics. Since then computer rendered backgrounds are run of the mill although it may be enough to carry some along long enough to see the ending. But static backgrounds no longer impress me. I played the first Myst game over five years ago, but I still remember the bitten nails and tortured grimace as I tried to make out the clues behind the static of the ruined books. That game was impossible for me. I liked it none the less. Now, having played dozens of adventure games, Myst III presented no insurmountable challenge. In fact, I needed only one hint with the gauge puzzle and only because the arrow did not stop at the exact place it was supposed to. I discount this as a design issue. Most of the puzzles are fairly easy, requiring only one step in solving. However, some puzzles were rather enjoyable, especially those at the end of each Age that rewarded me with the long-awaited cinematic cut-scene. I especially liked the ride on Amateria. It gave the impression that the design of the level was so thorough that it could in reality be built as an actual theme park. I absolutely loved it. In fact, Amateria consisted of the most interesting puzzles for my taste, although Voltaic had a much more elaborate puzzle sequence. Edanna was a lapse in judgment. It was a gigantic maze - that indispensible temptation of every adventure maker: easy to design, long to unravel - interspersed with the "how-to get across" type of puzzle. I particularly liked the Squi animal, without which the jungles of Edanna would defeat their purpose and be as empty as the rest of the lifeless deserts of the other Ages. J'nin's telescopic puzzle was a pain in the neck, requiring much travel back and forth until I got it right. The acting was average. Saavedro was thoroughly unimpressive. The game aborted multiple times between the CD changing sessions because of intrinsic flaws in the installer. In fact there are two patches available somewhere on the web to fix these flaws. The game ran rather smoothly (considering) with the water effects turned off, but whenever it came to actor interaction (as opposed to the filmed cut-scenes where you had no control), the sound was interrupted, so I had to turn on the subtext to know what was going on. Besides, the game seems too short (especially if you don't spend two weeks tweaking the puzzles). On to the good part. Why four stars? The puzzles were not eggregiously unfair, with "okay" hints as to what to do next. The graphics were excellent, the music very inspired (especially the choir in the Narayan :)), the plot, although simple, lay down the fundament for the puzzles and the Ages. It did not meet my expectations, however. The cut-scenes were excellent, the design of the levels beautiful and intelligent, the resolution satisfying. What else does a game need? Of course it could use more character interaction and a combination of mechanistic puzzles and inventory puzzles, more sophistication in the plot, longer gameplay, less errors and CD-swapping. The sleak package is only capable of carrying a game so far although recall the Neverhood Chronicles, which I loved. But, in the end, it is a matter of taste. You either like lifeless puzzle-worlds or you don't. If you do, I very much recommend this one; if not, Discworld would be a much better fare.
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