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Summary: It rocks
Review: hey there, wanna tell you why most of you guys didn't like Schism? Because you weren't supposed to play it! Go play Larry, Syberia or something else! For those of you who have no patience DO NOT BUY Schizm. Yes it's a difficult game but most puzzles are very nice. They have no ... solutions like aother ...adventures. I am a die-hard Riven player and I find Schizm very astonishing too. To be honest I haven't finished it yet but I will in a couple of days I guess. For those of you who REALLY Like Myst series, just like me, go buy Schizm now! For you who have found games like Syberia difficult don't even bother. A Two suggestions.Buy the dvd version cause the graphics on the CD version kinda [stink].Suggestion two;Don't give up,be patient,and listen to Schism too(!)
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Summary: A breathtaking expenrience
Review: Schizm, lets start with words such as stunning, breathtaking, seductive, mystical, and surreal. These words apply perfectly to a game that has brought to life the adventure game genre. Created by a group of Polish aesthethic designers and an incredible cast of writers, this game has what it takes to amaze any player, especially Myst fans. Unlike Myst 3 Exile, the enemy is the game itself while in myst 3 Exile, the enemy was an actual character of the game (Saavedro). The player has to use the wit and the intelligence to defeat an unseen mystery, lurking and threatning the player at any time in a deserted world. Although the Myst franchize excells in sound, story, and 3D environment, Schizm excells in mystery and a sense of fright of being in a threatning environment. Schizm like many adventure game genre, except for The Longest Journey, Myst saga, Grim Fandago, and Escape from Monkey Island, suffers from a bad dialogue and acting job. It is hard for a foreign actor to support a dialogue written in English, but it is evident that they were trying, at least. Apart from this, the game was superb and most players will use this game to entretain themselves until The Longest Journey or the Myst saga is released. Schizm, in general, is a complicated game made for hardcore players. If you are a novice player in the adventure game genre, then you have to reconsider when purchasing this game. Also, it is impossible to use a walkthrough guide in this game because the puzzles' generater alters in every game. Mind you, it is a sophisticated game. Schizm is a diamond in a rough, yet it brings an aura of enchantment for something that is not real. The environment is beyond our perceivable imagination. This game really shows what it can be made with a group of sophisticated designers. Schizm is one rare game in which aesthetical elements are being introuduced to the player in formidable ways such as sound, manual interface, and a chilling story. The story itself is mingled between fantasy, science fiction, and psychological horror. Please, do not be afraid because the game doesn't render a horrorifical experience, yet it has glimpses of a psychological edge to the human mind. Like a beautiful flower, Schizm both enchants and devours the player into an unforgetable experience of a lifetime.Teddy
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Summary: Good story, nice graphics, very hard puzzles. "Expert" game
Review: The story line is nice. The design concept is really great. The video resolution isn't all that high so there isn't as much detail as you'd like to see in all of the cool visuals. One other factor that sets this game apart is that you play 2 characters and you have to play to both to win the game. The puzzles in this game are difficult. If you are good at patterns and linguistic type puzzles then you'll have a good time. If you are better suited to the physical object puzzles, you're not not going to have as good of a time. My taste is that I want the puzzles easy enough to allow me to make progress but hard enough that I don't finish the game in an hour. As a beginnner gamer, the puzzles in this game were just too hard to keep my interest and I gave up half way through.
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Summary: Increadible, interesting and a food for you brain!
Review: Great game! After the instaling I couldn't stop playing. 5 excellent CDs, 3D graphics, fast moving. Here you got not only simple puzzels, but real logic, geometry and math...you have to reveal it on your own, though!
Wonderful game!
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Summary: I liked it!
Review: I liked it. I used the full install option and the graphics were realistic, flowed from scene to scene flawlessly. No lag time at all. I needed a walkthrough for the "higer math" puzzles. For me this was a $$$ trip to another world that lasted better than a week. And the flying scenes are incredible. 5 stars and the programmers earned every one of them. Bring on the sequel.
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Summary: Schizm
Review: It was fun, but like all of the games I've played which depict alien cultures the aliens look like humans of western European desent. If you can put the creators lack of imagination in that regard, it is interesting. The puzzles were challenging, a little too much so in some respects; I had to use Universal Hint System on the Net to cheat a little. The graphics are good, but a little grainy at a distance. There are no real problems I see with this game that is not indicative of most games (it is no MYST). I still recommend it. It was fun and challenging.
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Summary: Buy the DVD version!
Review: Do NOT buy the CD-ROM Version of this game! I made the mistake of buying the game on CD-ROM. The game was so butchered and chopped up just to get it to run in the CD-ROM drive that the game was impossible to play. I just got the DVD version. Its GREAT. The graphics flow. There are tiny animated sequences that are not in the CD-ROM version. There are many more clues and indicators that tell you that you are doing the right thing that are not available in the CD-ROM version. I have only played the DVD game for about an hour last night, but I am convinced! So far I would give the DVD version a 4 star rating.
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Summary: Get the DVD version...
Review: I bought the CD version of this game (because my computer can't play the DVD version.) The graphics were stunning, and the puzzels were (mostly) logical. My only complaint is that the clues cut out of the CD version made the puzzels MUCH harder to solve. I eventually had to give up and get a walkthough, but I recommend trying to solve the puzzels yourself first (that's always more rewarding.) Anyway, I think if I had the clues from the DVD version I wouldn't have had so many problems.
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Summary: One of my favourite adventure games
Review: Well, maybe the graphic resolution is not excellent, but I found the landscapes really beautiful.
And I really loved the puzzles. For the first time I had to really THINK, to solve them. I really felt like a xenoarcheologist, trying to decode an alien alphabet and using an alien numerical system).
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Summary: Do NOT Buy!
Review: This is an absolutely horrible game. The first thing you notice, though fairly trivial, is that the graphics are bad. There's no changing the resolution or the color depth, so it runs at what appears to be 640x480 or something with a very low color depth. Everything's grainy with banding due to lack of color. The next biggest problem is that the navigation is terrible. You move forward by clicking when you randomly pass the cursor over the right spot and the cursor turn to the right shape. But, to turn, you either have to use the cursor keys (which do an instantaneous turn instead of a pan, so it's hard to hold an image in your head of where you are), or you click and PUSH the mouse in the direction you want to turn instead of clicking and dragging the window in that direction (and the pan is so fast you can't see the scenery go by). There's no cursor change in those cases. Then, if you can look up or down, the only indication you have is a change to an icon down below the scene in your inventory. Plus, the cursor shape indicating a possible path is very easy to confuse as to where it's really pointing. In some cases, clicking forward will turn you 45 degrees before proceeding to take you somewhere nowhere near where it looked like it would take you. In other cases, you think it's pointing somewhere you've been, but it's not (so you miss a path). You end up watching the cursor and thinking about the mechanics of movement instead of looking at the scenery and tying to figure out what's going on. Also irritating is that once you click to go forward, it will stop at multiple, non-significant spots (even on straight, non-divertable paths). So, you spend time sweeping the cursor over everything in every direction wondering what's so important that the game stopped you here. But, the biggest problem is the puzzles themselves. The charitable description would be that they're impossibly hard. A more accurate description is that there's neither rhyme nor reason to them. In some cases, there's no indication that a device IS a puzzle and not just a static display. If you don't have a necessary inventory item, you can't do anything and there's no indication that you could EVER do anything in it. If you have some random inventory item that it expects, it just changes the cursor in the right place (if you happen to cross the spot) and you drop it on. In others, the puzzle is so vague that you're not even sure what you're supposed to be doing with it or why. Then you have to work your way through multiple, non-easily-written notation systems or phonetics. In my case, I uninstalled the game when it became obvious that it wanted me to reproduce some long string of barely heard, non-phonetically-writeable, background-noise-filled, alien speech on a set of devices strewn in four or six places about a very large room. Impossible. Not fun in the least. Do NOT, under any circumstances, buy this game.
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