Rating: 
Summary: Not Worth It
Review: We purchased this software yesterday. We have well above the minimum system requirements of Pentium 166MHz and 32 MB RAM and the graphics, movement and sound are extremely choppy. This one definitely needs some refinement. We are returning ours.
Rating: 
Summary: Spotty Performance
Review: What a disappointment! I read the reviews posted here, but hoped that my network of systems could accomodate any advanced system requirements necessary for this software. Not so!I first installed on a 500 mz machine, 256 meg ram, 16 meg video card, etc., etc. It prompted me to install DirectX 7.0, which surprised me because I thought I had it, but I went ahead and installed anyway. The software continually stutters and skips and then stalls. It seems to be when my son is moving the mouse around the screen while the program is "thinking". I then installed on my 650 mhz machine, 256 meg, 64 meg Radeon graphics card . . . but I have Windows 2000 on this machine and apparently DirectX 7.0 doesn't run on W2000. I went ahead and installed anyway and the program runs OK, although the graphics aren't nearly as good. In addition, although the games are new and interesting, they aren't nearly as intuitive as the Great Festival Adventure. Sometimes they don't even make sense. I'm not sure which one came out first, but this game was quite a disappointment after spending several months with the Great Festival Adventure!
Rating: 
Summary: Pleasantly Surprised!
Review: When I found this software I was excited because my son LOVES Thomas, but then I read all of the bad reviews and was scared to order it for him. I took a chance and ordered it anyway and LUCKILY we have had no problems with it so far. My son will sit and play it for hours without needing much assistance. I have noticed when you go to Sir Topham Hatts Office and print things out you have to kind of let it do it's thing and not get ahead of it. It will minimize the Thomas screen and return to the desktop while printing but you just have to click on the icon at the bottom of the page to return to the game. The graphics have been very smooth, not choppy at all. When I installed it there was an option for "minimum", "normal", or "maximum" installation. It told me we had enough memory to do the maximum so that's what I chose. I don't know what others used so I don't know if that could be the reason why it runs ok for us. We have a 128MB, 100MHZ computer with a video card that supports up to 2X AGP. I hope other Thomas fans find this helpful to them!
Rating: 
Summary: Better than the Great Festival Adventure
Review: When is the next one being released? My son 2yrs 8 months has spent hours enjoying this game. Every weekend we play it together. Highly recommended.
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