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Summary: player
Review: It has a good beginning... but is hard to go anywhere because the clues do not lead any particular direction. The player must go back and forth between locations but the player simply ends up in a loop with no solution. The graphics and pictures are nice, but that is the best thing about the game since no direction is given from the clues.
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Summary: Beyond Atlantis 1 and 2 are the best ever graphic adventures
Review: It is not possible here to describe how great Beyond Atlantis 1 and 2 are, but let's just say that I have been buying everything around and these adventures beat everything else. The music alone for a start is delightful, the graphics really bring you to Atlantis and new universes, the realism and story lines are really impressive. It is very simple, you only wish to live in the game and forget going to work.
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Summary: too few clues
Review: It's too bad Dreamcatcher Games' games all have the exact same gameplay. I think they're trying to re-create the style of Myst, but they don't realize that there is a subtle art to making a game like this. The first rule they violate is to make the game possible to figure out on your own. They provide almost no clues for any of the puzzles (It's impossible to figure out where to use the crystal ball in each place unless you try every single screen). They make it so difficult you pretty much have to use a walkthrough. I was able to get through Myst without any help, but I didn't last five minutes in Beyond Atlantis.The only good part about the game is the way it looks. All the worlds look amazing (which is good, because you'll be spending a lot of time in each one). Unless you like to spend countless hours trying to figure out puzzles with absolutely no clues at your disposal, you should avoid this one.
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Summary: Beyond Atlantis...many things to see.
Review: Myst/Riven/Crystal Key..etc. feeling. This is one of the best Adventure games I have played. The scenery is beautiful from world to world..even space. The purpose of your character(s) is believable. The concept is brilliant. There are different worlds you enter. As you go to each of them you become someone different. The importance of that is to help you succeed in each world. Many different characters and puzzles to face. The whole game is fantastic. Some of the puzzles I have never played in any other adventure game, which made it more fun. There is a few that you will be pressured for time, so save! Worth the time, money and brainpower. I LOVED this game!!!!
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Summary: It frustrated me
Review: Ok this look game looked good when I first started it. The graphics were nice and I was doing allright with the puzzles. But I am hearing impaired and I could not finish the game beacuse a vital puzzle involved matching sounds. Needless to say I was disappointed and frustrated. I wish the makers of these games would give some sort of an indication on the package just to warn people like me. I work hard for my money and I spent it on a game that ended up in a drawer because I was unable to finish it. It wasnt a bad game if I had been able to hear correctly I would have finished it and enjoyed it.
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Summary: Enjoyable, though imperfect game offers B-movie adventure
Review: Overall, this game is one of the most compelling adventure games I have played! It is a B-movie reset as a game, with a bit of new age mysticism thrown in. It features beatiful movies and a very nice soundtrack. Occasionally, the game pace was a little too slow for me. Perhaps getting stuck was a result of my being a PC game newbie, and not knowing the conventions. Overall, I think a few more clues were in order in several spots. Regardless of the reason, I simply solved the problem by resorting to online cheats when experimentation was just too tiresome. Despite its flaws, it held my interest over several weeks. I recommend it.
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Summary: Help! I think someone gave me the wrong game!!!
Review: The game I loved from all the games I ever had, the first quest I ever played (I got my first PC two-three years ago) and not like all my other games, I didn't cheat. Not even one walky. And I finished it and watched one of the amazing and good ending movies. When I heard that there is going to be another game like Atlantis (not that stupid Pompeii games which is ugly and boring, or Odysee which is fine, but so buggy it almost messed up my PC), I went crazy So as soon as I could I got something called "Atlantis2", which is excectly like this one, but has really bad graphics, and you can't get the piece of skull from the well. I spent 3 hours looking and looking for it... And don't think I looked how to get the pieces! When I was playing it on another PC I found the skull and turned into a head. Did I get the wrong game?? Please someone reply me! just write a review and tell me what's wrong!! I love Atlantis!! I want it to work!! Please help me because I am about to cry, but I will not because I am a big boy :(
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Summary: It was boring, yet you feel a need to go one,
Review: The graphics were great, but it was difficult to figure out where to go. The puzzles were exrtremely hard, and there didn't seem to be much of a point to the game. So, if you come across this game, think twice before being grabbing it off the shelf. However, if you like Puzzle games, such as Myst, then you would probably enjoy the shere boringness of going in circles around a stream or trying to talk to a giant spider, or pheraps you would like walking in a sheep's field? Maybe talking to monks? Watching a fox chasing chickens always excites me! And don't forget the shadow outside the chinease gates, too scary for words, and remember that spinning the turtle in circles is the way out!!
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Summary: Typical Dreamcatcher...
Review: The only saving point for this game is the graphics...I have to admit that some of them were absolutely astonishing. That out of the way, THIS GAME WAS A WASTE OF TIME! Far too many of the puzzles were either too pixel-sensitive or too obscure to grasp the concept without tearing one's hair out! There was WAY too much backtracking to accomplish tasks, having to talk to someone on the other side of a world to finish a particular puzzle, with no hint whatsoever of having to do so. Necessary objects to complete puzzles often just blended into the scenery, almost as if they were not even objects. Also, vital clues to solving puzzles were stashed away in one, little, unobtrusive graphic that could have been easily missed. Cryo and Dreamcatcher seemed to spend all development time on the graphics, but relied too heavily on them instead of integrating the puzzles into them. Much like some of Dreamcatcher's games, The Crystal Key (just as maddening), The FOrgotten (the first in a series that seems to have been forgotten, thankfully), and others. I just finished Myst : Exile, and was thoroughly impressed that I solved it without the need of a walkthrough. Much more satisfying.
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Summary: Frustrating puzzles with little logic required
Review: The problem with the puzzles in Beyond Atlantis is the complete absence of guidance about what to do with each puzzle and what you will achieve by solving it. There are a few which are intuitive but this is the exception rather than the rule. In an adventure game difficult puzzles are a good thing as far as I'm concerned but they need to be logical and relevant to clues you have already seen or found rather than totally abstract and therefore requiring trial and error, which is how most are in Beyond Atlantis. I do not believe that even a seasoned adventure-gamer can complete this adventure without the use of a walkthrough, which to me totally spoils the experience and the sense of achievement you get from completing this type of game. Yes - I could not wait to get to the end, but for all the wrong reasons! I did not enjoy playing this game whatsoever. I purchased Beyond Atlantis and Beyond Atlantis II at the same time, and after playing the former, was dreading playing it's sequel, however my fear was unnecessary. Every complaint I had about Beyond Atlantis has been rectified in the later, making it a fantastic game with difficult but intuitive puzzles that can be solved with thoughtful observation of your surroundings. Whilst a little jerky, the graphics and sound are fantastic and enable you to become totally immersed in the story. I recommend that anyone considering this title, purchase the sequel "Beyond Atlantis II" instead, which whilst not as good as the Myst Trilogy is certainly one of the best games available.
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