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Too bad

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: January 02, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Okay, the graphics were nice, the music was dreamy, but this was an incredibly boring game. I almost quit the game during the cheoptronic sequence. Going through that long tunnel for days was unecessary and incredibly booooooooring! I don't mind a puzzle game being difficult but don't bore me to death. I hope Atlantis was better than this. I'm going to try that. It's a shame programmers spend all their time and talent making beautiful scenery and tantalizing puzzles and make the in between stuff so boring you want to quit the game before you finish.

One of the best Egypt games!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: January 05, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I'm an 11 year old Ancient Egypt lover. I would definently recommend this game. "Riddle of the Sphinx" is by far one of the best Egypt games I've played. (Others include the sequel to this game "The Omega Stone", and "Egypt II: The Heliopolis Prophecy")This game has realistic graphics making it as though your truely there, and many puzzles to solve. It's a rather long game, and the people in this game are real people in a 3D world. Another thing that I find neat, is that the people in the game are played by the creators of the game at 'Omni Adventures'.

I give this game five stars. I would recommend it to anyone who likes Egypt, puzzles, or just likes a game that really makes you feel like your back in time!

HUH?

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: February 18, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I grant you, I have this silly obsession of wanting to know WHY I've gone through how many tombs (all in the Great Pyramid), and for what purpose? All to find out something I saw Indiana Jones do to the Nazi's?

Game is kind of interesting in the Egyptian stuff, but nothing other than blind determination - given that I'd paid full price for it, really kept me going. I bought it, and by God I'm going to PLAY it. This should NOT be why one plays a game.

Game starts real slow (sound on my copy kept cutting out, but rebooting helped). Collect a lot of stuff along the way.

Still, to be fair, I see there is a sequel. Dare I hope. Too many loose ends (Atlantis? Mayans? Bermuda? Stonehenge?)

Go ahead and buy it, but there are other "Egyptian theme" stuff out there.

Game played well, no small thing - all things considered. I do like to think that I've earned doing stuff right so I should get a "freebe" on that one - no cut scenes. I'm picky, and it's MY money.

Just Ok

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: June 11, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I purchased the jewel case version for $9.99, but wouldn't pay more for it. Maybe because I had just finished a Nancy Drew game that I found this game to be somewhat tedious and boring. There were lots of rooms to look through & items to pick up that all looked the same after a while. And the ending was so blah, blah, blah with all it's preachiness about religion. A few of the puzzles were challenging. Like I said, it's just an OK game.

Indiana Jones fathers child on Myst

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: August 19, 2006
Author: Amazon User

So here's how it is. I loved the environments, old graphics and all. I loved the statues of the gods dotting the landscape, silent and ubiquitous -- I spent a lot of the first part of the game unwilling to pass them, partcularly since the game usually would not let me turn to look at them directly. I don't like passing ancient Egyptian gods with blinkers on. This game can zap you at a moment's notice.

I loved the immersion in Egyptology and the amazing rooms, though I'd have thought a lot less wicker, wood, and cloth would have survived three thousand years of dusty emptiness.

The puzzles were fine, but unreasonably finicky. I had to consult walkthroughs several times when I had already figured out answers, to discover that tiny mouse adjustments mattered, which was not helped by the often squirrely interface. I used to have a car that drove like that -- not memories I want to revisit.

What really gets my craw is the ending, however. I mean -- good grief! An Atrus clone leaping out of nowhere to subject you to a historically nonsensical and virtually inaudible monologue in a very bad approximation of an English accent about sacred lost objects that shine at you for a moment (and you don't even get to see creepy spirits that melt your head) and that's the END??? I know there's a sequel. I know that All Ancient Cultures Who Built Pyramids Must Have Been Seeded By Aliens. I even know that lost objects turn up in strange places. But -- that object would have had to travel in time quite a bit to end up where it did. Or maybe I got that wrong because I had difficulty understanding a words Atru-- ah -- Sir Gil was saying.

As many of other reviewers have said, this game is fun but flawed. It seems to want to mix the gritty tedium of actual archeology (oh, the many trips to that sand dispenser) with the wildest fantasies of Steven Spielberg, and it ends up with the worst of both worlds. Be warned.

But I did love the lost temple of Ra -- crazy beautiful a fantasy as it was . . .

RIDDLE OF THE SPHINX

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: August 14, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Riddle is a beautiful rendered game especially for pyrimidologist. Be prepared for some tough puzzles but the effort is worth it. Riddle takes you to Egypt and the pyrimids and with the lights low and the quiet of the night you can start to believe you are there.

NEAT

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 5
Date: December 16, 2003
Author: Amazon User

ok, its a very difficult game, but who doesnt like a little challenge??

One of the best games I've ever played...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 26, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Riddle of the Sphinx is one of the best games I've ever plaved. The visuail efects are stunning! It's a work of art in all of it's entirties. In this game you get to do so many things including;snouping around,checking out collisial monumrnts, solving puzzles, and discovering the unknown. If you are a big fan of Eygpt, this is a must have game for you!

Needs "Book of Dead Ends" but is out of print

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 07, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I tried everything I could think of for this game and could not get anywhere. Finally I looked on the manufacturer's website and found they had something called "the book of dead ends" but it is out of print. There are a lot of dead ends in this game, and unless you know how to get from point A to point B, you might want to search the interenet for the walkthrough that I found where someone tells you step by step what to do to get anywhere.
Other than that, the graphics are pretty good and you will enjoy the discovery of what's inside the great pryamid and the sphinx (if you ever get that far). If you're looking for every clue to solve a puzzle, you won't find them all because they're not all there (as far as I can tell). But have fun adventuring anyway... all alone with a curse to fall upon you.

Breathtaking but Hard!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 31, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I drooled (not literally) over this game for years before I finally purchased it. It was worth the money, but there were a few serious flaws that may discourage gamers. Here is my review.

Graphics-Perfect! This is one of those games that sucks you in just by the realistic environment. Getting to explore ancient Egyptian sites was almost as fun as playing the game itself! The backdrops were really beautiful.

Puzzles-Hard! The puzzles ranged from easy to so hard it made my head spin. Needless to say, I resorted to using a walk through. If you are really good at the type of puzzles in this game, this may or may not be an issue for you.

General Game Play-Good! This is definitely a point-and-clicker (just to let you know). There is a warp option that will let you skip certain areas that you have already explored which can be really nice.

Content-Fine. I think a heard a swear word or two in this game, but they were muttered under the breath, and I am not even positive that what I thought I heard was what they really said!

Music-I don't usually even address music in my reviews, but the music in this game was breathtaking to say the least. I wish there was a soundtrack!

Overall-This was a really good game, I took off one star for the difficulty, but don't let me discourage you from trying your hand at it!

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