TRAITORS GAME

Rating:
Summary: Not what I expected
Review: I bought this game thinking it would be more like a combination of Rainbow Six and Thief. It's more like a hide-and-seek capture the flag with a Myst type navigation. The premise is interesting, but the delivery is kind-of cheesy. This game was a great disapointment, because it could have been so much, but was only so little.

One of its major faults is that it is so vast, and the character walks very slowly. There is no way to change the transition speed except to hold down the Alt key while moving. The 360 degree views are cumbersome. You have to click and drag to turn, and it gets old after a while.

This is an okay game....

Rating:
Summary: Not what I expected
Review: I bought this game thinking it would be more like a combination of Rainbow Six and Thief. It's more like a hide-and-seek capture the flag with a Myst type navigation. The premise is interesting, but the delivery is kind-of cheesy. This game was a great disapointment, because it could have been so much, but was only so little.

One of its major faults is that it is so vast, and the character walks very slowly. There is no way to change the transition speed except to hold down the Alt key while moving. The 360 degree views are cumbersome. You have to click and drag to turn, and it gets old after a while.

This is an okay game....

Rating:
Summary: Bo-o-o-ring!
Review: I bought Traitor's Gate because it offered 100 hours of gameplay. Well, I couldn't stay interested in it for even ten hours. I thought the premise was unbelievably contrived. Even granting the premise, it seems unlikely to me that any "Special Operative" would be sent into such a situation with as little prep and support as is given.

The game interface is really annoying. Only half the screen is available for play; the rest is devoted to inventory and a wrist-model personal computer. So I found the game itself hard to see.

I was quite annoyed that you were supposed to conduct your operation as covertly as possible, leaving no trace, and yet there were several places that leaving no trace was impossible due to the poor set-up. I was also frustrated that there was no capability to be sneaky or look around corners, but that every time you moved it was as if you had every right in the world to be doing what you were doing. This often led to trouble.

There were several places where I simply could not get the game to function, for example, keys that were supposed to open locks that just didn't work. Sometimes this seemed to be the result of needing to place the required item on the single specific pixel that would trigger the interaction. Sometimes it just didn't function no matter what.

I notice from other reviews that people seem either to hate this game or love it. If you have any question which you will be, don't buy it lest you be unpleasantly surprised, as I was.

Rating:
Summary: Bo-o-o-ring!
Review: I bought Traitor's Gate because it offered 100 hours of gameplay. Well, I couldn't stay interested in it for even ten hours. I thought the premise was unbelievably contrived. Even granting the premise, it seems unlikely to me that any "Special Operative" would be sent into such a situation with as little prep and support as is given.

The game interface is really annoying. Only half the screen is available for play; the rest is devoted to inventory and a wrist-model personal computer. So I found the game itself hard to see.

I was quite annoyed that you were supposed to conduct your operation as covertly as possible, leaving no trace, and yet there were several places that leaving no trace was impossible due to the poor set-up. I was also frustrated that there was no capability to be sneaky or look around corners, but that every time you moved it was as if you had every right in the world to be doing what you were doing. This often led to trouble.

There were several places where I simply could not get the game to function, for example, keys that were supposed to open locks that just didn't work. Sometimes this seemed to be the result of needing to place the required item on the single specific pixel that would trigger the interaction. Sometimes it just didn't function no matter what.

I notice from other reviews that people seem either to hate this game or love it. If you have any question which you will be, don't buy it lest you be unpleasantly surprised, as I was.

Rating:
Summary: Good and exiting
Review: Traitors gate is a very good game with only one flaw, and that flaw is how long it takes to get around in the sewers and how easy it is to get lost in the sewers. I recomend to print a map of the sewers off of www.gamefaqs.com . Traitors gate is a stealth game which requires who to sneak around the london tower and replace the some of the crown jewels with replicas that have trackers in them so the CIA can arrest a man who is about to steal them. The thing that makes this game so fun is all of the puzzles and .. well, everything! You have to crack safes with your listening device, stun guards with tranqulizer darts, shoot grappling hooks to other towers and use the rope runner to go across, pry off locks, disarm alarm systems, mess up the survalence systems, put knock out gas in the air shafts, collect keys and key cards to unlock doors, find secret doors, find out key codes with your decoder, hack into computers, and so much more. The graphics are wonderful and the music is amazing (just listen to the music in between changing CD's !). To me, this was one of the best games ever! If you buy this game and need help with it, my e-mail is [e-mail]. Thank you.

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