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A Good Game, But Gets Boring

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 11
Date: August 13, 2000
Author: Amazon User

The game play is excellent and the 3D world is amazing--but after you have been playing it for about a week, you get sick of the same thing over and over and over...

fun

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: March 29, 2002
Author: Amazon User

People have totally underrated this! The plot is very interesting involving the sands of time and a time wave(divine force). There is a god, Kronos, who controls all man. like HG Well's Time Machine, a young man goes about 800,000 years into the future, but it is very different. There really isnt any reason for younger kids not to play it except he is hard to maneuver. You might want to try something like the Windows Harry Potter game first, then go for this. But it is totally worth buying.

Did not work

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 11, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Sadly, this product did not work as advertised. I read the instructions, and went through the various tools necessary for time travel. After finishing the tasks necessary, I found I was 20 hours in the future, and not at my target date of 1842. Buyers be warned: this product has yet to send me into the past, and I have still not figured out how to do so

A "Time Machine" review

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 11 / 15
Date: September 17, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I think that this is a really super game!

True, it does get a little boring after a while (a week or so), but that would only be if you were stuck. This game is most fun when played with hints, or a trusty walkthrough close at hand. All in all, I love the fact that is takes brains rather than the click of your mouse to successfuly complete the game.

The graphics are in no doubt superb, and the plot is almost easy to follow if you talk to the right people in the game.

It must have took a lot of imagination to think up such a delightful game!

Good game but...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 03, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I had purchased this game from a sale a few years back. At that time I had a computer that was running on Windows ME and the game worked great.

After I got a new computer that runs Windows XP, the game would not work. It is not compatable with anything above Windows 95/98/ME and am very dissapointed.

It would be nice to have a re-release of the game so that is works on newer versions of Windows.

So I guess my advise is this... if you do not have a computer that runs Windows 95/98/ME, do not but this game... it will not work.

Nice graphics but the game is terrible.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 19 / 21
Date: November 03, 2000
Author: Amazon User

When I started playing the game, I regretted buying it instantly. The graphics were stunning. The music was engaging. However, the controls were extremely confusing.

Talking with characters in the game was a tedious task- you have to position yourself directly infront of anyone that you wanted speak to. And before you can press the "action" button, the guy walks away. When you finally get to talk to the person that you wanted to speak to, he answers " Go away little boy !" All the effort for nothing !

At the start of the game, you are thrown into an unfamilliar world that is supposed to be the future. The game lacks clues and each puzzle, in turn, seems disturbingly more illogical than the one before, thus you have completely no idea what to do or where to go, except running around mindlessly.

The game has many beautifully rendered landscapes but this does not make it up for the gameplay. Worst still, the many wacky camera angles that you have to endure throughout the game will make you head spin. Even the camera angles in TombRaider games aren't this bad.

This game has a nice packaging and graphics- but don't be fooled by it.

Frustrating at the start. Hopeless by the end.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 10 / 12
Date: January 25, 2001
Author: Amazon User

The graphics are rich and interesting as well as the sound. Thats where it ends. Controls were difficult to use. Clues to puzzles, non existent. You waist alot of time running around trying to figure out what to do. After the first hour of game play I gave up and used a walkthrough. The plot is a linear sequence of scenes (about 11 in all). Once you leave a scene you cannot return so if you forget something in scene 3 that you need in scene 11 - well tough luck. You have to start over. The scenes present puzzles that become increasingly difficult as you progress. Unless you have a lightning fast processor you won't be able to complete the adventure. Game speed will get bogged down, game controls will be sluggish, you can't draw weapons fast enough, you can't run to escape a threat, etc. Don't waist your money.

This Game is not great

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 6 / 11
Date: July 27, 2000
Author: Amazon User

It was fun once I got it but after three days of playing it gets boring

Loved the Movie-The Game Was Disappointing

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: September 04, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I have played Riven, Myst, Journyman III and feel I have a little experience under my belt. Time Machine started off with a great storyline and graphics. I found it difficult to navigate the character and to solve the puzzels. Two evenings trying to get off the first level disappointed me. My time is valueable, too and a game should not be so inept that it keeps you from progresing in the very beginning! Movement was difficult and could have resulted in carpel-tunnel syndrome! Give me a mouse to use! If you buy it- good luck!

Uh-oh

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: February 28, 2003
Author: Amazon User

If you have played some good quality games, you will be disappointed by this one. It's too bad because the basis of this game is a good one and a time machine alone could be a great tool towards what could be quite the adventure. But these possibilities are not achieved by this game. You can not move around freely and the controls can be difficult. Your kids might enjoy it but if you are looking for a whole lot of fun, try Myst, Atlantis or Blade Runner.

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