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Incomplete program. Bugs Galore!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: May 11, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Don't purchase it yet. I'm sure it will be great if and when they eventually get a patch/fix out for it. But right now It's only running on about 25% of the systems for which it is purchased.

myst 3: exile - ubi soft falls short

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: March 07, 2002
Author: Amazon User

When I saw Myst 3: Exile in the store I had to get it because Myst and Riven were so fantastic I couldn't pass up the chance to follow the story farther and put my intelligence up against whatever new challenges had been created. Excited, I loaded the cd in my computer and embarked upon the adventure, however, that excitement quickly turned to anguish and moans of disappointment as I discovered this game did not nearly deserve the title of Myst. One would find it impossible to believe Exile was written by the same people who evoked the wonders and challenges of Myst and Riven, as the puzzles proved to be little more difficult than putting square blocks in square shaped holes and the depth of the game as a whole felt shallower than a kiddie pool in a desert during a drought. To say I was disappointed with Exile cannot reasonably convey my feelings for this game, as UBI Soft has utterly failed with this third installment of what had previously been a great and trustworthy tradition, one I had come to believe came with an unspoken guarantee of excellence and intellectual contest. The Myst title is forever destroyed and its reputation defiled by what appears to be the concern for making money with a shoddy product that carries a trusted history instead of being propelled to honor its past by a desire to craft an uncompromising, challenging work of art because of a wish for simple excellence.

coolest game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: November 12, 2002
Author: Amazon User

the best game for a computer i have ever played just chalenging enough to not be boring and not too chalenging so a great thinking game.

Wait now or wait later...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 15
Date: May 13, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Well, I consider a factory-configured Micron 667 running Windows 98 to be a "normal" computer. Myst III locks it up every time! Their website tells me they are aware of the problem and are working on it. If they can tell us that on the day the game was released, why didn't they FIX THE GAME before they released it? Myst I was a model of stability. Seven years and a thousand games later, this is ridiculous!

Myst 3: Exile

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: May 30, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Beware of the lovely packaging on this game...I've owned this game for 2 weeks now and have yet to be able to run it. The manipulations have included downloading Ubisoft's 1.2 game patch and discovering the patch itself won't run. I'm no computer pro but with Myst and Riven I was able to set up my computer to deal with game quirks. This software seems to be at an entire different level of poor software design especially for a game that's pitched to the masses. Buy something else or play Riven or Myst again.

RIPOFF!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: May 20, 2001
Author: Amazon User

If you don't own it consider this; This game crashes and will not run on over 50% of the platforms installed on. Check out the tech support forums at ubisoft.com for more on this. This company did not properly perform beta testing (the allmighty dollar?) and have been promising "a patch" since the games release date. The patch continues to be pushed back, and may yet be available during your lifetime. At any rate, the company was aware of these problems and pushed the game anyhow.

I would advise avoiding Ubisoft like HIV.

Phenominal Support!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: July 03, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Hi,

When I first loaded this game I couldn't get past the title screen. I e-mailed support and had no luck getting it to work. Based on my negative review here on Amazon, Greg Uhler, one of the games producers, e-mailed me PERSONALLY to try to help.

As it turns out, I e-mailed all my information and he gave me a solution right away! Now the game runs great.

I cannot thank Greg enough for his personal help!

In case you would like to know what I did:

I manually set my monitor resolution to 640x480 and 32-bit color. That's all it took. BTW I have a voodoo2 12MB, so if you have had any troubles try this!

Rich Rossi

-----------Old---------- As many of you know, this game had some serious support problems. I was never able to get it to work even though my computer exceeds all the system requirements. I talked to support, and recieved an answer and a follow up answer...then nothing. ....Now I am stuck with a game that will not run on a computer that it is advertized to work on. .... You have been warned.

Best in the series~!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: May 13, 2001
Author: Amazon User

As a fan of Riven and Myst, I must say Exile is definitely the best yet in this series. The problems mentioned by other users here are easy to circumvent. READ THE BOX and the website BEFORE you buy! If you run win2000/NT be prepared for problems as their site warns. I use a Voodoo 3 card, and unfortunately this game does not run in direct3D mode with the voodoo 3 (software mode works fine however), but once again you can read this on their site faq's... before you buy. Other than that the game works fine/looks great with voodoo 3, so I don't know why people are calling these cards a "major problem" with this game. Other issues mentioned here are silly, such as one saying Atrus never shows up in the beginning despite the user reinstalling the game over and over. Well this is simply because the user didn't explore enough, NOT the game's fault. The graphics are fantastic, the levels amazing, water effects etc. are top notch. My number one complaint, and the cause of my less than highest rating, is that the levels are too short lived for *advanced* players as most previous players will be. I have been playing for about ten hours and I'm already almost done with the game!! QUITE a bummer after waiting a year for this release.

Not as good as I hoped.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: May 21, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Maybe I got my hopes too high - this game was way to easy except for the last puzzle which was ridiculously difficult - it was more trial and error than logic. I completed the game in about 12 hours of total play and never really got caught up in the plot. There were too few segments that involved the plot and most time is spent solving puzzles. I would have liked a lot more action throughout the game instead of the intermittent dialogue. The puzzles fit together well but I didn't really like certain game aspects (cant go over a small ledge but can climb on sharp rock spikes, etc.). Some paths were difficult to see and I was on the last puzzle and new the game wasn't that great when I waited two days to solve it but really didn't care to see the ending - I was more entranced early to mid-game than I was by the end.

I did like the 360 of the game - but again I thought the plot was weak and still think Myst 1 is the best - it was one of those rare games that caught people by suprise and revolutionized computer gaming.

For those with NORMAL computers

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: May 11, 2001
Author: Amazon User

If you don't happen to have Windows 2000, or fifty different drive designation letters, then this game is a masterpiece. First of all, the cinema scenes are beautiful, with the most arfully crafted backgrounds I have ever seen. The 360 view gives you complete freedom from the slideshow prison, and adds so much more depth to the possiblity of puzzles. The puzzles will not make you want to turn your game into a frisbee like Riven. They are very challenging, but you don't need the strategy guide to complete it. All in all, though only having played for about four hours so far, a phenominal game.

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