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Summary: A below-par generic adventure game
Review: Sturgeon's law states that 95% of everything is crap. I think he was optimistic - for every Hamlet, there are bezillions of sitcoms; For every Ring Cycle, there are several cubic yards of mindless MTV pap.And for every Myst, or Syberia, there are far too many games like Crystal Key 2. Crude and muddy graphics, pointless story line, endless exposition, and illogical puzzles based on the tried and trusted technique of 'search everywhere until you are frustrated; talk to everyone many times over; try everything in your inventory, in combination if necessary' No redeeming features, as far as I can see....
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Summary: Watch first then rate...
Review: Visit http://www.fox3d.com that have some works for this game then rate it ;) 5 starrs for graphics at least :)))
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Summary: Still waiting...
Review: Well, let's see. This game was originally supposed to be released in October of 2003 with a price tag of 30 bucks. Then that date started getting pushed back and pushed back to the point that their drop-dead date of March 12th, 2004 is a full five months late (an eternity in the computer software world). Oh yeah, and the price has now dropped to the bargain-bin price of 20 bucks even before it has hit the shelves. March 12th has now come and gone and the game has still not shipped yet. Maybe something else is going on here. Last October, they would have had to go head to head against the URU juggernaut. A couple of months later, they would have competed against Mysterious Journey II, another (and extremely good) sequel to a game in the same genre as Crystal Key. Now, a release in March would mean they would be competing against Syberia II, arguably the most anticipated of the lot. All three of these other games have had very strong ancestry to build upon. While the initial episode of Crystal Key was inexplicably a stong seller, the game itself was not exactly earth-shattering. I've played a lot of adventure games and 'The Crystal Key' ranks well down on my list of favorites (but, by all means, not at the bottom). It was just a good, solid, average adventure game. So, I think timing has been their cruelest enemy so far. That, and the fact that their "game tech" might not be up to snuff with the rest of the competition that is coming out these days and they are frantically trying to re-tool in order to compete. Being such a hard-core adventure game fanatic, if and when it finally does come out, I'll gladly play it. Like the saying goes, "there's no such thing as bad chocolate". But, at this point, I'm not holding my breath for some Godiva-like quality with this one.
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