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nice interiors.clunky movement.boring.proselytizing.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 10, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Imaginary interior of pyramid beautifully rendered....Mysterious flaming torches everywhere!.
(I have XP but got and tried this older version.DO NOT OBEY WHEN IT SAYS TO CHANGE RESOLUTION. Works OK on regular.)
Movement frustrating! Every click brings another wheezing whirr until that bit has loaded itself.
Gantenbrick's tunnel was approx 12 minutes long.
It does NOT bring Ancient Egypt "to life"....boring plod through beautiful but rather pointless scenes.
Perhaps it was the intention here to suggest that an exhausting trek through "dead ruins" and "new age myths" is (in their opinion) a "waste of time"...?
Even with all the XP tech probs of the older game "BEYOND TIME", its worth 100% more than this stupid hodgepodge of useless, broken dusty imaginary objects!

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!

Boring game, but a nice concept

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: September 08, 2006
Author: Amazon User

After installing the game and seeing the intro clip I was very excited to play. The clip was well written, visually attractive, and informative of the history of the sphinx and the great pyramid. Unfortunately, that was the peak of my experience with this game.

ROTS is a game I wish I could return for a refund. It is boring and clunky and slow. I've got a 2.1 ghz laptop--that's 2 generations newer than when the game came out--and it was still slow. (This is because the author went a really cheap route and used quicktime for the graphics... and 'quick'time isn't at all.)

Beyond that, the first few puzzles are simple annoyances, then obscure without warning, and then ridiculously obscure. After a few fairly simple puzzles, you're stuck in this small boring clunky world, pending the solution to a very obscure puzzle. You have to enter a code somewhere before ANYTHING else happens in the game. I cheated to get that code, just to see if I was missing anything interesting later on. The code was ridiculously obscure, and I would have felt very cheated if I had spent dozens of hours trying to guess it. After that, a whole new exciting layer of chambers opened up. Except they were just a boring labrynth, and it was too nonsensical (huge labrynth in the middle of the pyramid?) to be exciting. The puzzles appeared to revert back to trivially simple (i.e. move the mouse around and see if the cursors changes, and click on it if it does). Virtually nothing happens in the game. No interaction with other characters at all. No depth at all. BORING.

On the bright side, I really appreciate the original concept of the game. If done properly (and a little less unbelievably), it could be really fun and informative and even thought-provoking. The visuals are decent, and they did a nice job on some details inside the pyramid, but other things are totally phony and cheesy. I think the idea was good, but as another reviewer mentioned, there were only two people working on it. That's why I gave it 3 stars overall. If this had been a big team, I'd give it one star.

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 . . .

Good, until the end

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: January 18, 2006
Author: Amazon User

ROTS was a very good puzzle game, for a mixture of easy and excruciatingly hard puzzles it does not disappoint... However, it drags on a little longer than a person can take, and many of the puzzles are dependant on inventory hunting (some of which is easy to find, and some that are not, like the sacred scroll, there is not clue for where it is, you just need dumb luck!) And the ending is incredibly anti-climactic for what the game built up... They could have made any ending better than a seven minute monologue! It leads into the next game yes, but I wanted a good ending for this game!!

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.

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.

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!

FANTASTIC

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: February 27, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game was great! and the reason is because it is realistic and shows Egypt as it was. Anyone who says it has a hidden agenda (what hidden agenda?) or has poor graphics has never been to Egypt or studied anything about Egypt and just wants to complain!

All the bad reviews are from people who try to compare this game with others. There is no comparison....it stands alone because it is so real. It's like being transported back in time.

And what's this religious stuff guys? It's a game, and it doesn't try to make you do anything against your beliefs! Besides the Egyptians had many gods, this game just brings all that together in a game.

I loved this game, and you boo hooers.....shouldn't be so critical. Besides, I had no problem playing on my computer!

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??

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