realMYST

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Summary: realMYST
Review: Even if you've played the origonal MYST, I strongly recommend the updated version realMYST. You can pan around in this version for a better view of your surroundings. For the visual effects alone, it is worth it. If you haven't played any of the MYST games before, you're really in for a treat. The main attration to the MYST games for me is the total lack of blood and gore: you don't kill and chop off body parts to win the game.

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Summary: a question
Review: Does anyone know if this game works on Windows XP?

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Summary: The best way to experience Myst
Review: realMYST is the same game as Myst, in that the puzzles are the same; however, it is a much different experience. The realtime 3D makes the ages seem much more real, and alive. If you're playing realMYST at 12:00 am with all of the lights in the room turned off, and a good pair of headphones, then you might for a moment, truly believe that you are there. It will take a very powerful computer to achieve this state of nirvana; however, if you have a powerful enough computer, then this is definitely the way to experience Myst. Even if you have already played Myst, then it is still worth getting realMYST.

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Summary: Simply the best Myst game ever
Review: Please understand you have to have a computer that can handle the requirements of this game in order to run it. I have a 1ghz Athlon, 256 megs of ram and a GeForce 2 card. I did the full install so I only need the CD to get the game started, the rest runs from my HD. I have never had a game run so smooth or submit as gorgeous of graphics. This is now the only way I will play Myst. It's that good!!

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Summary: What's Wrong With Everyone!
Review: Don't get me wrong, I consider myself to be a pretty die-hard Myst fan, and I love all of my fellow reviewers with as much of my soul as I can muster, but I feel the need to issue a complaint about this wretched piece of junk that calls itself a game!
When I first saw Myst, I thought it was the most amazing thing I had ever laid eyes on, I was reminded of La Jetee, the old Chris Marker film in which we are given thirty minutes of still photographs telling a love story across time, space, death and reality. The film as well as the game opened the door for a whole new kind of narrative, one that was not reliant on the spectacle of motion. So, when I saw and purchased this game, I was weary of its potential offense. My weariness was not in vain as I asked myself:
DOES IT NEED TO MOVE? Just because a picture is worth a thousand words does not at all mean that fifteen or more pictures a second, sixty seconds a minute, sixty minutes an hour, nine hours a typical playing session does not mean that the game is worth up to and including 500 million words! Frankly, I can only think of two: PURE DRIVEL!
Anyone ever hear of the Kuleshov Effect? The Homeric Exposition? The Triptych Manifest? The Neurological Function of Visual Closure?
No?
Well, basically they all refer to your brain's ability to put two and two together to make four. You see one image immediately followed by another without viewing any of the action that exists between them, just like when in a movie our POV changes from one character facing right to another character faving left. This make sense to us because, by our brain's ability to fill in gaps in the action, we assume that these two characters are looking at each other.
What, you can't tell what has happened between two images of a library in which one image shows the library-as well as its surroundings-as appearing closer to you in the frame than in the previous image? YOU'VE MOVED FORWARD, (...)
Okay, perhaps I'm being a little too cruel, but it just annoys me to no end that there are those out there who feel that making still images move (rather than simply appreciate the beauty they present to you in stillness) somehow enhances the visual awe of art. Maybe if you have only a passing interest in the Myst mythos, and you enjoy solving puzzles far more than viewing such fine specimens of computer aesthetics, perhaps you will enjoy this game, otherwise, stick with the original and its sequels.

I'm sorry I was angry, it's just that, as a filmmaker looking to altnerative, mold-breaking techniques of entertainment, I felt the need to uphold the integrity of the Miller Brothers, and the good sir Marker.

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Summary: Phenominal Graphics (with the right PC)
Review: I bought this game with very high expectations of the graphics. Like the Editor's Review states, the 3D engine did put quite a strain on the rendering, making it crawl through the scenery. But at the time, I had a 500Mhz PC with 64Mgs ram and onboard vga. Knowing the game had more potential, I quickly decided to build a new PC. Now I run RealMYST on a 1Ghz with 256Mgs ram and Gforce2 card w/32Mgs. The difference is breathtaking. Lifelike scenery, precise control and movement around objects, and virtually no problem with controlling levers and buttons in the interactive environment. Anyone considering buying RealMYST should look at what they will be running it on. In my opinion, the cost of the better hardware is worth the expense, especially with the video card.

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Summary: Excellent!
Review: Great game!
Buy it now.
Its even better than the original version.
Challenging puzzles at every turn, it really makes you think, and stretches your problem solving skills to the limit

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Summary: This is how MYST was meant to be!
Review: The original MYST started it all. Then came Riven and MYST III: Exile. After completing all three, my curiousity turned to Real MYST. Now why would anyone want to play an updated version of the original? Updated is an understatement. Cyan has once again amazed me. The 360 degree of sight and movement(you don't even get all that with Exile)make it worth playing again. The addition of environtmental features i.e. changes from day to night and weather, make it even more enjoyable to experience again. Oh! Did I forget to mention the addition of the new Rime Age ending? This is the way MYST was meant to be!

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Summary: The best 15 hours at my pc (so far)
Review: This game played like a dream. Great scenery and sound, better puzzles - A truly immersive experience.
- Steve C
PS. Note that I have a Geforce 3 card, an 866 MHz P3 chip and 640 Mb of RAM.

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Summary: Good job!
Review: A nice addition to the Myst world, and a relief for those of us who wanted to see what the ship looked like coming out of the water. Some of the cut scenes were filmed anew, which is a bit of a relief, and there's a small added world (Rime) as a prize for having won the game; otherwise it's all original stuff. If you didn't like Myst you won't like this either; but if you're a Myst fan who's already finished Myst 3, you'll be pleased.