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Microsoft Pandora's Box

Microsoft Pandora's Box

List Price: $34.95
Your Price: $19.99
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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Excellent challenge
Review: If you love a challenge this is the game for you. I got addicted to this game very quickly. There are so many puzzles to do and each level gets harder and more challenging. And it's not just random puzzles. It takes you through a story and a mission to solve with each level you complete. With so many levels, you'll be playing for weeks to complete it.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Perfect for the Puzzle-Obsessed
Review: If you're as puzzle-crazy as me, plan to lose a lot of time with this game. It's one of the most beautiful I've seen. Each puzzle brings you a picture of something interesting and attractive. The stories connecting the puzzles are fun (Coyote was my favorite), but not essential. Please say there'll be another volume!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Finally, I found a game where I didn't have to kill aliens!
Review: If, like me, you have been looking for a game that didn't involve blood-letting, beheading, or slicing/dicing aliens, Pandora's Box will help you pass the time and exercise your left brain's three dimensional capacity by solving (by re-arranging) the puzzle's pieces. Some puzzles take 20 minutes or more to solve. Beautiful lay-out and nice audio too. You have the option of playing their game or just solving puzzles staight-up. It provides hours of mental fun. There are several levels of play---my ten year old enjoys it also.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: I wish the puzzles could go on and on
Review: It was fun getting through the game and then more fun getting all the puzzles completed (all 350). Now I'm ready for more. Where's Pandora II? This is for the visual puzzler - jigsaw like puzzles. Liked the rotoscope and putting the skin on art pieces (can't remember the name of that type of puzzle). I wasn't so fond of the shapes that float until you find where they should be placed in the picture. The travel connection was great. I've traveled quite alot recently and it is fun to revisit places you have seen. Thanks.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: I was sick of this after a few hours
Review: Looks like a great game, doesn't it? Hundreds of puzzles! Don't let it fool you. All the puzzles involve composing images (some three-dimensional). Most are about as fun as a sliding puzzle. I can't believe this is the best they could come up with. There really are only about 12 puzzle TYPES. The hundreds of puzzles means basically that they have hundreds of images you can play slider puzzle on. It was fun for a few hours, but many of the puzzles are tedious after a while, and when I realized I'd played all the puzzle types, I didn't want to continue.

The puzzles aren't even particularly intellectual, either. Most of them involve matching, like a jigsaw puzzle. How long can that keep someone interested? There's no planning (ala lemmings), there's no figuring out how things work, there's no creativity for you. The images you form are sometimes pretty, but they pale in comparison to the lush interactive environments we are used to from the likes of Riven.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: You can't solve just one
Review: My sister gave me Pandora's Box for Christmas, and I find solving the puzzles just like a bag of potato chips-- you can't solve just one and stop. The puzzles are nicely varied (although they are all spatial-relationship puzzles), so you don't feel stuck doing the same things over and over. I'm not so good at puzzles, so I may never get past Level 3, but even that will have provided hours of entertainment. My only gripe? The HINTS are not well done. When you need a hint, you want some strategic advice, not to slide piece A to the left.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Pandora's Pentagon
Review: Pandora's Box is a engrossing, entertaining puzzle game. It kept me occupied for hours, and made time flow at twice the regular rate (or so it seemed). The puzzle types were unique, original, and for the most part fun. Here are some pros and cons:

PROS:

* Puzzles are presented in a game format. There is always a larger reason to finish a puzzle - to progress through the levels.

* Levels become more challenging. It took me almost three hours to finish the final level.

* Hints and Free Puzzles are plentiful. If you don't like a puzzle type, you don't have to do it. If your stuck, you can use a hint.

* The 3D aspect of the puzzles was really neat-o.

* When you are done, there are still puzzles left to do. The game includes 350 puzzles, and I still had 125 left when I was done. The fun continues.

CONS:

* Perhaps this was just my video card, but some of the puzzles seemed dark - so dark that I couldn't see where I was placing puzzle pieces.

* Some of the puzzles rotate, and require fine mouse movements to complete. If you have a physical impairment, you may have trouble.

* I thought a few (2) of the ten puzzle types were rather lame. All luck and little thought. But that may be just me.

All in all, this is a great game for all puzzle fans. I definitely recommend it - if you have time you want to lose.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Challenging, but could use more interactive gaming
Review: Pandora's box is interesting in the puzzle type challenges it provides, however it has mostly to do with images and pictures (an obvious path to introducing their subsidary Corbis Inc.) When I purchased the game, I had taken it for an interactive 3D puzzle/brain teaser type games like that of Tetris. This game was fun while it lasted, but the puzzle and pictures got somewhat old after a few levels.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Great game for adults
Review: Sick of violent games? Tired of Solitaire? Myst got you down? Then Pandora's Box is for you. A game geared toward the thinking man (or woman), there is no violence or sexist images, just thought provoling games, riddles and brain teasers.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A GREAT WAY TO USE THE BRAIN
Review: The 10 types of games seem very simple, but believe me they are not. The player has to "envision" some aspects of certain puuzzles before the puzzle can be completed. The games appear easy but they can be very challenging. I play almost everyday.


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