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Amerzone review

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 27 / 28
Date: November 25, 1999
Author: Amazon User

Amerzone is a time consuming, medium difficulty, point-and-click adventure. If you enjoyed the point-and-click classics, Myst and Riven, you are sure to love Amerzone. My favorite part is that you are whisked away from France to the fantasy land of Amerzone; and the graphics are even better than Myst and Riven combined. Recommended to all.

Amerzone...for the beginner

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 10 / 12
Date: November 28, 1999
Author: Amazon User

A good game for the person who only wishes to move forward, Amerzone has a big price tag for not-so-big adventure. This game has a boring-to-annoying sound track, poor resolution and a fairly static environment. Good for the inexperienced or younger gamer, however--the puzzles aren't very puzzling and it's almost impossible to miss clues. 3D shots are excellent, easy to move around--storyline is interesting. If you found Myst/Rivan to be difficult, you'll love this one.

Amerzone.......Buyer Beware

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 11 / 13
Date: December 03, 1999
Author: Amazon User

Amerzone is a good game for the young and/or inexperienced gamer. For anyone else the game is disappointingly simplistic and linear. While the story line is interesting the "puzzles" are not so puzzling. In fact the solutions are handed to you in such a matter of fact way that it's nearly impossible to miss any of them. If you can pick something up you can surely bet that it will have an immediate use in the next scene. Not too challenging. Lastly, the game itself did not play smoothly. I had several instances of broken and choppy graphics...especially as I walked through animated scenes....and the game crashed several times. Amerzone was/is a major disappointment. Recommeded only for begining gamers and older children.

A disappointing adventure

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: December 20, 1999
Author: Amazon User

While the graphics and visuals were extremely good the adventure part was totally lacking of any serious challenge. The story line has some excellent potential but the developers failed to capitalize or recognize this. What could have been an adventure to rival Myst or Riven, failed miserably. 'A' for graphics and visuals, 'A' for story line and 'F' for adventure and puzzles.

Only for true adventure game beginners.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 18 / 18
Date: December 27, 1999
Author: Amazon User

While this game is visually very good and fun to play, it is as indicated quite easy. I play almost every adventure game I can get my hands on, Myst, Riven, Shivers, Amber, Lighthouse, etc., and rate this game only moderately interesting. Maybe it's because the cursor changes shapes when you place it over something important, or because you can hardly fail to find the solution to the immediate puzzle, but I rate a game on how much help I need in solving puzzles and how long the game takes to play. I expect a good adventure game to keep me stumped for weeks or even a month or two depending on the amount of time spent playing it. I received Amerzone in the mail December 24th, solved it on December 27th and needed help on only 1 puzzle and that was only because I was impatient. (I would have solved it had I only tried it a couple of more times.) Visually it's a great game, but for a real adventure game player it's only a short diversion. Beginner?...buy it...experienced?..you can do better.

Waste of time

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: February 06, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game is a waste of your time and money. Unchallenging, illogical and a complete let-down. If you are expecting anything close to the success of Myst or Riven, do not bother.

Myst in a Lost World

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 22 / 23
Date: February 20, 2000
Author: Amazon User

The storyline: sixty years ago, three young men went adventuring through the Amerzone, each one representing an aspect of Civilization (science, religion, politics) in first contact with this primitive, romantic land. The game begins as the adventurers, now old men, look back on an experience that started with good intentions, but ended with each betraying and exploiting what once was a land of enchantment. Valembois, the scientist of the group, realizes that an artifact he removed years ago -- a giant egg -- is, miraculously, still alive. He charges you with the quest of returning to the Amerzone with the egg, thereby restoring vitality, myth, and mystery to the land.

Pros:

1. Fabulous, unusual, lifelike 3D graphics; fantastical, yet believable places to explore. The rain forest scenes contain exquisite traceries of leaf, branch and shadow.

2. In no other game has the world felt so alive with indigenous species -- the frequent flights of birds, the movement and sound of insects -- plus fascinating portrayals of unknown, exotic creatures: the Pechosaur, the Suckerer, the Porcopotamus.

3. Unlike most other computer games, the ending to Amerzone is superb: from the moment you encounter the web-footed giraffes, through a misty ascent on a delicate rope bridge where water and sky merge, through a flight over bubbling volcanoes, to the final spectacular cut-scene.

Cons:

1. The mouse responsiveness in this game was erratic. The 360-degree panning was smooth, but sometimes when I clicked on a hotspot, I had to try over and over to get the hotspot to function. At times, I felt as though I was slogging through waist-high water, upstream, against a fierce headwind. If you have a similar experience, try double-clicking on everything, which pretty much solves the problem.

2. I would have enjoyed seeing some colorful, exotic flowering plants in the rain forest scenes. Those would have provided a more spectacular contrast to the gray, wind-swept French countryside at the beginning of the game.

3. I didn't really appreciate the game's storyline until I played through it a second time. I suspect that games like Amerzone occupy the mind and senses so thoroughly with new sights, sounds, and mysteries to solve, that it is easy for subtle story nuances to go unnoticed. In a way this adds to replayability; however, if Amerzone's designers wanted the player to "get" the storyline the first time through, they needed to make it a lot more obvious.

Bottom Line: If you loved the intrigue, pace and style of Myst and/or Riven, you will have a very pleasant time with Amerzone.

The Little Mermaid By Goodtimes

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 10
Date: February 22, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I purchased this movie for my 4yr. old daughter who is crazy about Mermaids;{she believes they're real.} She already had the popular Disney version and I felt the version based on Hans Christian Anderson was too harsh for a 4 yr.old. This little Mermaid movie however;is based on Hans Christian Anderson,but instead of a sad ending this has the happy ending children love. I rated this movie with 3 stars because I felt the ending was rushed and fell short. The contents of the movie was enjoyable.The little Mermaid Marries her Prince.

Great but needed more

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: March 01, 2000
Author: Amazon User

First off - this is a great game. The graphics are fantastic, no question. Unlike usual game animation, which can be jerky, this was surprisingly lifelike. The sound effects are great and the puzzles are reasonably easy. The only thing missing is a more detailed story. You come, you see, you conquer. There is one instance where you get clubbed in a village and thrown into jail - but you never find out why, who did it or what you might have done wrong. This could have been a great Indiana Jones type game but it's just too easy. You only get hindered once, and it's no fun if nobody's after you. All this needed was a bit more of a plot, like Zork Grand Inquisitor, and it would have been a five-star game, no questions asked.

Adventure Plus

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: March 11, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I was enthralled throughout the game. The scenes were realistic and the storyline easy to follow. The video kept one interested although I did find that some of the areas of the game were a bit dark. I would recommend this game for any number of ages.

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