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Summary: Scrabble, Where are You?
Review: I would love the game if my screen didn't keep going black in the middle of a game. You must use your mouse to "scratch" off the black to resume. By this time, I have lost the momentum and after a few of these happenings, I have just given up and don't even finish the game. The music is better than all those laughing clowns in Scrabble 2.
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Summary: Save your money, Scrabble does not run on Windows XP
Review: I'd give this game a -10 if Amazon had an option for it. I've played Scrabble on-line and at home for years and absolutely love the game. Atari has taken the game and ruined it for me. Don't bother buying Scrabble Complete if you are running Windows XP. It will lock up and IF you should get into the game it will run so slow you'll want to scream. I had an old copy of Scrab Complete. I thought it was a scratched CD so I bought a new copy. In the mean time, I bought a new computer and when I installed the new copy it didn't run on my new puter. I emailed Attari tech support and got the usual run around. Try this, try that, send a copy of a file, blah, blah. Here's an idea Atari, try installing a copy on an XP computer, then come up with a fix. I'm serious people, save your money and hope Hasbro buys back the rights to Scrabble.
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Summary: No improvement
Review: I'm unimpressed with this new version of Scrabble. It looks nearly exactly like v2.0 (and only has one additional mini-game). More problematically, the game still runs full screen -- why can't I buy a Scrabble game that lets me play in a reasonably-sized window?? Also, like previous versions, you have to have the CD in your drive to play -- annoying for those of us who want to play on our notebook computers.
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Summary: Disappointing
Review: I've been a Scrabble player for many years. When I moved to a new home hundreds of miles away, one of the things I knew I'd miss was playing Scrabble with my friends. I bought this version which promises internet play. Trying to make it work across AOL and other service providers has been very difficult. Playing through Zone.com requires you to accept an unacceptable privacy policy. I've given up on internet play with it. The game can be annoying because unlike the original Hasbro version, you have fewer options in play such as when you are challenged and the tile shuffle has a weird grab and switch letter feature. There were problems getting it to load on XP.
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Summary: Problems with running on XP
Review: I've had lots of problems running this on my XPLaptop. Support provided little help and offered no idea of when a patch for XP problems would be provided, if ever. You can't load the software on your PC, forcing you to use the CD. The product isn't very user friendly. Too bad!
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Summary: Endless loop
Review: Installed Scrabble in Windows XP and tried to play, but got an error message/OK and on OK it played itself and I coundn't get out of the loop. Hard re-boot required.
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Summary: Interesting review there, Alfred
Review: Interesting, that is, as it's dated some 2 weeks before the title is available. Sorta makes one doubt its accuracy. Scrabble 1 and 2 have been available for quite a while now (and are [inexpensive] now too); hopefully Scrabble 3 will be an improvement but seeing as I've seen no info whatsoever from Inforgrammes or elsewhere about what differences it has, I'm not holding my breath. (The one star is only because there has been no info about Scrabble version 3. Version 2 is certainly fun.
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Summary: Didn't work for me
Review: It seemed to load but then produced only a black screen when I tried to run it on a computer using Windows XP. A quick search suggested this is not an isolated problem. The customer help site's FAQs were not very helpful. Despite some time spent trying, I never could get it to run.
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Summary: Tricky setup
Review: Lots of people seem to have the same problem: The computer hangs up at a black screen. In my case, it seems to be due to Zone Alarm asking if it should "allow" Scrabble to access the Internet. Unfortunately, the screen is black during this process!! What I did was right-mouse-click on the Scrabble shortcut, and set the "compatibility" setting to windows 98/ME. Then when I started Scrabble, after a few seconds of black screen, I was able to see my desktop, and there was Zone Alarm asking its questions. After saying "yes" to all of them, I was able to start Scrabble normally (after resetting "compatibility" to XP). Hope this helps. I like the look and feel of the game, and it is not slow on my computer.
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Summary: Great game, takes some configuring
Review: My husband and I play scrabble nightly from our computers. We have a great time, but everytime we upgrade the computers or the network it takes a few weeks of guesswork to find the right settings again. The last instance was a resetting of the application gateway for Active X controls on the firewall. I had to go to the Microsoft site to find instructions. All of this is quite frustrating, but the game is so addictive that we continue to find solutions.
-StarLite
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