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Puzzles

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: December 03, 2007
Author: Amazon User

You get to solve a bunch of puzzles. Pretty much that's it. The "you're a part of the story" is a great concept but I just don't see how solving puzzles helps me feel like I'm in a real life story.
A complete failure.

The solution in serious adventure games

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 23, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I really loved this game, which was to be expected after the perfect first in this series, called In Memoriam. The game is set up in a very intelligent way, using sites especially created for the game but of which you do not find that out. Very cleverly done. The plot was intriguing and so real sometimes that it makes you shiver. I like these kind of games cause it unites hard to solve puzzles with true Internet searching for clues and solutions.
I would recommend this one, the one before and the latest edition, called Evidence, the last ritual to all serious adventure gamers, who are more in training the mind than the hands that hold the gun...

Good game snatched from the jaws of a great game

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 10, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Missing since January racks up buku points for originality and inventiveness, not to mention simple viral marketing strategies. Its not often you see the words "Reward for Information" on a video game box. The Last Ritual (sequel to this) does even better, with what looks like a full-up evidence baggy, complete with chain of custody signatures. But I digress.

The games premise is you are assisting a fictional news organization in tracking down one of their star reporters, Jack Lorski, who went missing while investigating a series of murders, and eventually trailing a serial killer known as The Pheonix. The Pheonix kidnaps Jack and his companion, forces them to make a series of videos, and compiles it into an encoded computer program, and mails it to Jacks employers, who then turn it over to the public for assistance, as the program can not be cracked, only played through.

The Pheonix treats the player as an initiate or disciple, introducing them to his warped vision while touching on many branches of esoteric thought, including alchemy, numerology, demonology, and other realms of philosophy and theology.

The game progress while periodically sending the player e-mails and other interactions, even providing hints if theres enough down time, indicating you're having trouble with a particular puzzle.

There were many drawbacks thoguh. I could not beat many of the stages without a walkthrough, not because they were difficult, but because I literally could not understand what was being written or spoken, which was the pivitol clue to a particular puzzle. Also, some of the puzzles were simplistic, and others were incredibly frustrating. While its good that even the later stages had easy puzzles, the disparity is so great it made me want to grind my teeth.

The video clips between stages, either made by Jack as a documentary, or of the Pheonix stalknig Jack, were fantastic, but you could not replay them after they were viewed. While not critical, it would've been nice to watch them all in sequence.

All in all, this game was a great buy at $20, explansion included, even though I never finished the game or expansion, as I needed HD space for C&C 3. But if you're looking for a great puzzle game, take a look at this, though bear in mind at some point you will need a walkthrough.

Too frustrating

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 30, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game has a great premise and the puzzles are fun. However, the logistics of the internet and mail is terrible. When I try to do research on the internet I am booted off and the system is extremely slow. Same with mail. It is very frustrating. Half the time I just went to the walkthrough to get the answers hoping that by getting further into the game the internet search engine would improve. No such luck. Unless you are extremely patient and don't mind constantly "ending program" and starting over I would not recommend this game

Imagined so much more

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 21, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This is my first computer game and I'm not a video gamer but I expected more. I love the idea that you have to search the internet for clues and such but it's missing something for me. I don't like the viedo gamey things you have to do but that's just me-I ask my husband for help and he completes those tasks. The background noises are so annoying and your computer is vulnerable to all sorts of bad things out on the net so make sure you have some kind of security in place to keep out viruses and spyware. I don't think I'll try another computer game.

Missed opportunity: unplayable game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 01, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I love adventure games and played over 20 of them, never leaving even one unfinished. From the reviews, I gathered that this game would be an interesting and stimulating new experience within the genre. I know that many people enjoyed the game and admitted to little or no difficulties finishing it.

So, what is wrong with me? With considerable trouble and stubborn tenacity, I managed to get to the point of becoming initiated in the game and even completed the first 6 sections of the second chapter (called AQUA). However, for the life of me, I could not advance with any of the last 3 sections of this chapter: 1. The first section (OUPHISIT) in this group would not give me the expected letters in the circles, no matter what I did to them. 2. Another set of floating circles in the following section, called SOTHIR, got together and lit up the Saint Sophia, but the game would not advance. 3. Finally, the word SOLINVICTUS in the last section of this group, called CHNOUPH, would always be destroyed by the fast moving "killer stars". Even my teenage son, well trained in first person shooting games and the likes, could not get further than SOLIN.... - could it be that my 2.13 GHz Duo Core processor accelerates the animation of these minigames too much?? -. I tried very hard, using walkthroughs and sending 2 e-mails to the game support. There was no reply from them and the tech support number in Toronto is off the hook until sometimes in February of 2008. So, to preserve my sanity, I uninstalled the game and made sure I will never get tempted to reinstall it.

Nevertheless, it is pity. Although some Missing game enthusiasts came out with fairly good walkthroughs - I used 2 of them -, they could not adjust the difficulties of the mini action games in a way that the emphasis could have been shifted from the action sequences to the intellectual challenges. This lack of customization short-changed a large audience of adventure gamers who could have been up to a real treat.

Missing

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 14, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Very good game, gives you arcade type games. You have to search the internet for clues to solve the puzzles. Some parts of the game seemed too hard, I had to search online for solutions in order to get past sections of it. I would recommend this game if you like time consuming games.

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