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Not bad! Very interesting...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: November 19, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I really liked this game and joined just as soon as it started. To be honest, the first episodes really weren't that great, but as it went on it really started to improve! The puzzles are great, but be prepared to not get one everyday. Some times you will go several days before getting another puzzle, but they are worth it. The first puzzles are pretty easy, but as the game progresses, they can become really challenging.

The game is also about the community. One who plays almost needs to check the Message Boards @ EA.com daily (though you don't need to, if you don't have time) and some like to chat with their "Allies." I would highly recommend this game!

Really messes with your mind

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: November 05, 2001
Author: Amazon User

If you enjoy X-Files, Roswell kind of thrill and are paranoid of the shadowy organizations running around playing their dirty tricks, Majestic captures that experience. Weaving thru' an intricate plot, it reached me on my cell phone, fax, email, real video and real audio. I ended up chatting with the characters in the story and spent hours digging up the leads served thru' many fictitious companies that are setup for the purpose. Many a times, I could not figure (and still don't) if the companies, events, people in the episodes are real or fictitious. The threating, paranoid, screaming phone calls as part of the story are scary and disturbing.

I am warning you..Majestic would ruin your life.

Very Innovative

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: October 31, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This is the most innovative game of the year. Totally different from anything that I've ever played. I've been playing the online version and found it engaging and surprising.

It's definately very cool to get a call from a crazy person on your drive home! Well worth trying. Your going to get about 2-3 months of gaming out of this.

Fun and disturbing

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: November 05, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I just got a copy of this over the weekend and getting the phone calls is pretty creepy. I have to say, there is alot of stuff here to fiddle with. Some things aren't quite clear to me yet, but overall, it seems to play well.

The pacing is a bit off, but that just may be me because I want to barrel through this. I hear because of the real time thing, it makes more sense.

Great idea, lacking in execution.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 30, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I was one of the original online players of this game, and the idea excited me to no end. Imagine! Threatening phone calls at 2 AM! Faxes coming over your machine from unidentified sources! Who is part of the game and who is not? WOW!!

At first, it seemed to live up to everything I thought it would. That first phone call gave me the willies! After a while, the stale recorded messages became old. The AIM conversations? If you can't figure out which ones are real and which ones are the game characters, you're not old enough to be listening to the language used in the game. To be fair, however, some of the calls and AIM messages have caused my girlfriend to threaten me that if "they" actually showed up at the door, she would kill me before they could get to me.

Puzzles? If you find one before Episode 4, let me know. If you're a puzzle gamer, you'll be able to play this game in your sleep. The puzzles are easy, and, even if for some wild reason, you can't solve one, you will get an email within 24 hours from a game character explaining exactly what it is you need to do.

If you haven't bought it, save your money for the next round when someone works out a way to make the great ideas work. If you have spent your money on it, it's too late, but stick with it. The last episode shows that there is some hope for the format, and may just make you hope that they do come out with a sequel.

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