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NOT XP compatable

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 8 / 11
Date: March 30, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Don't fool yourself, this game will not run on XP unless you can make it imulate Win 98. Even then the sounds are a bit choppy, but still it is an awesome game!

The company that makes Exile has no plans to ever make the game XP compatable, but their website doesn't give a reason why.

If you can emulate the 98 system on your XP, you have GOT to get this program!

Impatient gamers beware . . .

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: November 15, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This is probably the single best computer game I've ever played sheerly based on the superb graphics and smooth gameplay. It's not the kind of game for people who get easily frustrated or don't like a time-consuming problem, but if you love to ponder something out over an extended period of time, then this is the game for you.

When I heard that Exile was going to be 360 degree motion, I thought it meant that you could do the typical 90 degree turn in any direction with the click of a mouse, sort of like in the previous two games. However, when I kyfed my dad's copy of it, I was stunned to find that it was free-motion. It was quite disorienting at first (I got motion sickness), but once I got over the nausea and headache, I was fascinated by the detailed graphics, which ran without any hitches. I was playing in a darkened room without any disturbances, so only a few short minutes later, I was completely immersed in the world of Saavedro and Atrus. Additionally, in Exile there is more character interaction, like in the opening sequence involving Atrus, Catherine, and the mysterious stranger who is responsible for your quest.

In terms of sound, this game is also head-and-shoulders above the rest. With each different place you visit, a unique musical style accompanies, giving depth and creativity to each site.

Overall, if you're the type of gamer who likes a mental challenge, why are you reading this? Go buy it!

Myst III- Exile, the best yet

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: May 20, 2001
Author: Amazon User

If you liked Myst and Riven, you will love Myst III- Exile. Quite frankly I was a little disappointed in Riven. Although the graphics were better, the puzzles were a bit too abstract. Also I grew a little tired of the story line where Atrus sits on his butt writing books and counting on you to deal with his warped family. (Why are we helping this guy?) Like Riven, though, Myst III takes a quantum leap in the graphics. The story line is much more complex- the villain is not so clear cut. The puzzles are challenging but not too difficult- perhaps only because you are already familiar with the puzzle logic of the previous two games. Your sense of real time is the first casualty in this game- be careful if your employer expects you to be punctual! Of the three games, I liked this one the best. By the way, my Mac G3 powerbook handled it flawlessly. It is not bad company if you are flying San Francisco to London- 10 hours seemed like one hour!

THE BEST GAME OF THE MYST TRILOGY!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: July 11, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Exile has the best sounds, the best graphics, the best storyline than either Myst or Riven. Let's face it. Some of the Myst graphics were "tickertoy." Tickertoy but wonderful. The graphics were great in Riven. But the storyline and puzzles more or less covered the graphics. Tactic storyline telling for Myst. Strategy storyline telling for Myst. The graphics are better in Exile (I do have technical problems, but I switched over to software mode and I accept the darkness because of an out-of-date video card). The puzzles are much better than in Myst. To make it simple: The whole game connects in a beautiful and ecstatic symphony of delight (whew!). One problem. I have read the three Myst books. Unless you have, you may not know a few things. And Exile takes it for granted that you have read the Myst novels. Do you know where Dunny is? Do you know how to create an age? Do you know if an age is real or just created by the writer. The universe is infinite. What does this have to do with a book? Are people who have allegedly been created by the author of a book, such as Catherine, real? Read "Myst: The Book of Atrus" "Myst: The Book of Ti'ana", and the third book (It's hidden beneath all my other linking books and I'm not going to dig it up!). Also, buy "Myst III: Exile" in order to cheat. My brother is going to try Exile without cheating. I wish him luck. I wish you luck as well. And I hope that I have been helpful.

Beautiful, immersive, scary, and even a little moving...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: June 22, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I loved Myst, but found Riven a little flat despite the beauty of its environments.

I was therefore pleasantly surprised to love Myst 3: Exile best of all. The game is a perfect combination of the dreamlike world of Myst, with the attention to detail offered by Riven, and with a really exciting storyline, gorgeously rendered environments, and a lush immersive world to boot.

Add to all this some superb acting from Brad Dourif as a villain who's as sympathetic as he is frightening, and you have the makings of a great game. While I'd always liked him as a character actor, Dourif really impressed me here -- the drama of the game really lives or dies on his shoulders, and he brings terror and poignance to the game in equal measure.

I reveled in almost all the worlds Myst 3 presented (the first and last best of all), and the puzzles are seamless and beautifully integrated into the game. (Like some others, I did find the plant world to be a bit tedious and confusing to navigate through, but it was also a lot of fun to conquer in the end.)

I recommend Myst 3 for Myst and Riven lovers both -- but it's also just as much fun for gamers new to the Myst worlds, and may be the perfect introduction. The game even offers the possibility of several different endings, depending on how you solve the final quandaries of the game. A superb game -- one of the best I've ever played.

Note: I'm running on the XP platform and after updating with the latest patch, the game performed flawlessly for me.

A truly enjoyable game with exceptional graphics!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: January 19, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This latest game in the Myst series does what the others did: take computer fantasy gaming to the next technological level. With fantastic graphics and a 360 degree view of every mouse click, Exile recreates its imaginary places with precision and believability. The music is wonderful, the scenery compelling, and the puzzles as challenging as those in the previous two games. I will say that having played both Myst and Riven, I now know how to approach the enigmas of this game, which makes them seem easier than they are. People who haven't played Riven, for example, (or who played it long ago) may not recognize clues when they see them. For them, this will be a longer but no less enjoyable game.

At first, I found the 360 turns dizzying and confusing, but quickly got used to them. The individual worlds here seem smaller and less dependent than in previous games, but I accepted that as part of the superior graphics package. I appreciated the four CD format that doesn't require the constant disc changing of Riven. I experienced no bugs with my version, although I use a Mac, which might make a difference. Because the Windows and Mac systems use the same disks, however, I suspect the makers have since fixed many of the problems in their later productions.

Get this game. Like the others, this requires innovative approaches to problems instead of brute force. The puzzles are sufficiently complicated so a user can't solve them by random trying.

(For Mac OS X users, this is a Classic Environment game. Also, UBI Soft assumes you'll have a right mouse click option; circumvent it by using the shift key.)

Misleading Technical Requirements

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 9
Date: June 21, 2001
Author: Amazon User

As a big fan of Myst and Riven, I was excited to buy this game. I would be more excited if I were actually able to play it. I found that the game crashed constantly. I have spent hour upon hour trying to get my system in perfect alignment with the planets as decreed by Ubisoft; I had no trouble installing and playing Myst and Riven. Though the technical requirements listed in the User's Guide clearly state that a 3D video card is optional, Ubisoft technical support, answering an email after two weeks rather than the promised 24 hours, told me that in order to play the game I would have to purchase a new 3D video card. Uh, no thanks. I just won't buy any more of your products.

Save your dough

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 9
Date: November 16, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Although I thoroughly enjoyed both Myst and Riven, Exile has been a monumental disappointment. Myst and Riven set the bar much too high and Exile simply pales in comparison. From a technical perspective I found the constant interchanging of the four CD-ROMs extraordinarily obnoxious, which detracted from the game play. The puzzles were challenging, but navigating the landscapes and solving the puzzles often required good fortune, not skill. Additionally, the soundtrack did not boast the same mesmerizing power of its predecessors, which detracted from any ability to create ambience throughout the surrealistic ages. A highlight was the ability to view your surroundings in a 360-degree nature, which has been a major improvement over Myst and Riven. However, this was not enough of an upgrade that warrants a recommendation. Save your dough or wait until you can purchase the software from an auction site for pennies on the dollar.

So real you're almost there.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: October 09, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I've had Myst III for almost 4 years. Yes, it's taken me that long to finish it. But it sure is a wonderful game. In terms of graphics, Riven was a simple step up from Myst. But Myst III adds a whole new level of realism to the franchise.

The main new feature is that you can look anywhere you want in any direction withing the photo-realistic worlds when before you could only look at a limited amount of certain things. These worlds are empty but beautiful to look at and have an eerie, ghostly atmosphere to them. The graphics are so convincing that the roller-coaster ride in the middle of the game will make you feel like you're really there. Not only do the graphics stand out but sound effects pan across the sound-field when you spin around and wind whistles between the rocks.

The story involves the maniacal sons of Atrus (that would be Sirrus and Achenar) continuing to wreak havoc through-out the ages. They have destroyed a world known as Narayan and left sole-survivor in exile on the island of J'Nanin. This man is Saavedro (Brad Dourif), who ultimately blames Atrus for his sons going off the deep end.

Atrus (played by Rand Miller as always) calls upon you to go to J'Nanin and find Saavedro, who has stolen Atrus new age Raleeshan. Saavedro traps you into going through many different worlds, unlocking secrets, finding clues and seeing for yourself what Sirrus and Achenar did to Narayan. Each world has a different look from the last but still retains that spooky feeling no matter if your in a swamp, caverns, beach or mountaintop.

But still, the most impressive thing about Myst III is Jack Wall's brilliant score, which is simultaneously haunting, beautiful, dark and Gothic. He seamlessly blends magical with choral and gives us a highly thematic score with surpasses that of most big-budget movies. Definitely the best score a video-game has ever known. And that's a pretty big statement.

I got the Limited Collector's Edition of this game which comes with the score CD (now very hard to find and very expensive) a 'making of' CD, the Prima Official Strategy Guide and lots of other inserts. The game (at the time of this certain publishing) was spread over 4 discs and it became very annoying switching between them all. I minor quibble though.

Overall, I highly recommend Myst III, it's not just a game, it's a journey.

CD-ROM drive problems in computers with multiple hard drives

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 10 / 16
Date: May 14, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I bought Myst III over one week ago. Until now, I have not been able to play this game at all. Here is why:

After installation, the game needs CD-ROM disk 2 in order to start the game. However, after I loaded the appropriate disk, the program did not recognize that it was, in fact, in the drive and kept requesting it.

I finally went to the Myst website for assistance. There, I found that Ubisoft "is aware of the problem and for now recommends to the user to change the drive letter of the CD-ROM drive to 'something lower than H'". Added is a small, short note with a warning that "changing the drive letter could cause other programs to not work correctly". It continues with "...We are working on a better fix for the problem...". So of course I am not going to change my drive letters around - who knows what that will do to my system!

While I am happy that Ubisoft apparently is aware of the problem, it bugs me immensely that they would throw such a game out on the market which obviously isn't up to today's systems. My CD-ROM drive is drive letter N, and I can honestly say that no game I have played in the past has ever had trouble recognizing it.

I have now shelled out money for a game that sits on the shelf until Ubisoft comes up with that promised fix - inquiries about how long this will take were not answered to this day. I can only imagine how many more troubles are waiting for me once I'll get around the disk 2 problem.

As to the game itself: I wish I could say something about it. I really do!

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