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Zork Nemesis is a great game.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: April 09, 2003
Author: Amazon User

If you have recently purchased the game or maybe it has been sitting around the house for a couple years and you never cared to play it till now like me then I highly recomend you play it now. This game is extremely fun and will challenge you. I think this game was better than return to zork and I have just purchased the Grand Iquisidor title. If you feel you are up to taking on the complex puzzles then I suggest you buy and play this game.

Not Zork, but great fun

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: December 26, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is an amazing improvement over the less-than-stellar first attempt at a graphic-based Zork game, Return To Zork. The graphics remind me of a slightly-revamped Myst, and the acting is superb, although the video is rather low quality. It's also the first exploration game that I ever played which allows a 360 degree panoramic view, something I thought Riven should have used, and which Myst: Exile eventually perfected into a totally spherical view. The puzzles are very intruging, I especially like the music-based ones. The environments, music and atmosphere are genuinely evocative, and in some cases, extremely creepy. You will not sleep well after chopping heads off of dead bodies in the Gray Mountains Assylum while listening to the disembodied cries of the insane.

The plot involves several twists and turns, as you start out to help four alchemists and uncover some very dark pasts.

The only problem I find with this game is that, besides references to previous Zork games such as a portrait of Dimwit Flathead and the various place names, there's very little connecting it to the whole Zork universe. There isn't even an old brass lantern! It's a very serious game, similar to Myst, and not a fun, witty adventure through a fantasy land like Zork Zero. Never the less, I would really recommend it to anybody who's a fan of exploration games, this one will keep you occupied for good while.

This Game Rules!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: March 17, 2001
Author: Amazon User

All I have to say is this game Rules!!!!!! YOu must get it! I love my Zork Nemisis Game. I wish they would make a part 2 to this game. This Zork is definitly the best Zork Game in the series of Zork games ever made.

WOW I love this Game!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: March 15, 2001
Author: Amazon User

If you like Myst style games this is a game you must get. I think it is the best in the Zork Series.

this game rules

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: March 19, 2001
Author: Amazon User

this game rules I love it graphics are fantastic music fantastic, I love this one

What an amazing game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: December 31, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is one of the best games i've played! 5 stars and a half!

Zork in name only

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: November 27, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Zork Nemisis is a "zork" game in name only. Unlike Zork Grand Inquisitor and Return to Zork, Nemisis is a completely different story line. The game is a dark adventure with good graphics, great sound, and good gameplay. It wins a place on my best games list.

A timeless game, but all things have their flaws.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: August 19, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I remember playing Zork Nemesis with my mother when the game was first released a number of years ago. I was young then and the combination of haunting music and (for the time) stunning graphics frigthened and enticed me into loving the dark game.

Playing it again now is a bit of a nostalgia trip, and a good time waster, but sadly nothing as grand as it was in my early childhood. The game is fantastic to play once more for its fantastic worlds and characters (the frozen asylum of Dr. Sartorius, for example, is one place I will not soon forget), but sadly its plot can only entertin you for so long after you know its, one other reviewer put it well, Soap Opera worthy end.

That, however, should not stop first time adventurers from picking up the game and enjoying immensly. It's a game worthy of the Myst crowd (a series which, in my opinion, is still far beyond this game in its puzzles and atmospheres), the player must examine everything and take note of all of it for completing the sometimes tricky (though nothing to the level of some presented in Myst, especially Exile, the third game in the series) puzzles along the way.

For the fans of the old text-based Zork originals, this game is a far cry from the embodiment of those type of adventures, but for people like myself who enjoy both the more dark and serious puzzles like Myst, but also have a soft spot for the humor and culture picked up in playing the old text-baseds, some moments in Nemesis will have you giggling out of your chair. References to the Underground Empire, actual encounters with living, breathing (unseeable) Grues (the best and classic throwback to the original Zork), and a good helping of some wacky side characters and other bonuses that will give you a small helping of wacky humor to lighten things up in the midst of some rather macabre and eerie scenes (Might I mention a certain nurse in the blood filled asylum?).

All and all, while it is not a game to be played over and over (though certain points, like the aformentioned nurse, are enough to make me save often and go back to revist some more enjoyable scenes) it is a good game to experience at least once for the inovative world and characters the creators came up with.

TOP 3 GAMES EVER MADE

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: March 02, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This is definitly a game to lose yourself in. In the tradition of GOOD adventure games like Myst, comes Zork Nemesis, a most amazing game. There are chapters of a person's life, that one remembers clearly for the rest of his life, much like good games for good gamers. Zork: Nemesis was definitly one of three games like that for me. Myst being one, and Tetris being the other (ok, zork is nothing like tetris, but admit it, you had dreams of colored blocks, too). Anyway, buy this game as fast as you possibly can.

Best PC game ever?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: July 09, 2001
Author: Amazon User

yeah, this is deffinatly the coolest PC game ever :)

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