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Please bring back Majestic

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: August 14, 2005
Author: Amazon User

If you're a fan like me, you might occasionally check this space for reviews, hoping that someday you'll load up the Majestic page and see a note from someone saying "If you liked Majestic, try this new game instead." So far it hasn't happened, but I keep hoping.

Majestic was one of the most innovative and immersive games I ever played, but it was cancelled back in 2002 for lack of interest. Sure, the AI on the AIM bots was poor and the phone calls were hokey, but it was unlike any other game ever made, before or since. I dream of more games like it, but I guess the market isn't there, because I've not seen a single one. I can't even find any fan pages on the net.

But I find it hard to believe I'm the only one that fell in love with not only this game, but the concept of this game. A game that extends past the traditional interface and calls your cell phone, sends you faxes, AIM messages, and emails. For a brief moment back in 2002, I was stalked by a video game, and it was exciting as hell.

Anyway, this has gone on too long for a game that's been dead for three years. I just wanted to let you fans (if there are any) know that you're not alone. Some of us are out here waiting for the day that a new Majestic-like game comes out. [...]

Game No Longer Playable

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: August 21, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Just in case anyone was thinking of buying this game...

EA no longer supports this game and it cannot be played. So don't waste your money. It was a great game when it lasted.

The Fun Is Officially Over

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 12 / 12
Date: July 07, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Originally billed as "The game that plays you!" Majestic was an exhilarating online mystery, unlike any other game before it. However, gameplay was all online, and involved searching websites on the servers run by EA. The software in this box is merely the interface for that online play, there is zero off-line content. EA shut down the servers running this game in April 2002. So, now, this is merely a collector's item for the box art, there is nothing that can be done with the software at all.

If you are looking for a game to play, do not buy this. There is nothing payable at all in this box. It's not bad, it's simply non-existant.

Engrossing, if you like to THINK

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 11 / 11
Date: March 17, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Majestic is a game I'd heard about for some time, but was waiting to read the reviews for. I finally read some, and they were uniformly outstanding, but to play you had to join an EA-owned service and I didn't want to do that. But then, they released the game on CD and no special membership was required. So, I bought the game.

You've probably heard, EA has pulled the plug. This is sort of like cancelling a great TV show before it has the chance to build up an audience. EA never gave Majestic a chance to succeed. The game servers are active until the end of April, so if you start now, you can't finish the game... period.

That said, I have NEVER enjoyed a game more than I'm enjoying this one. Well, maybe "enjoy" isn't the right word. I'm addicted. Besides the main plot, which consists of some simple puzzles that get harder over the course of the game but are always solvable with the tools right at hand, there is a second, much more challenging game just "outside" of the main game that has absorbed my attention for days and days now and is the single most challenging intellectual problem I've ever come across. I won't ruin it for anyone except to mention "Solitaire1947."

If you don't own Majestic... don't bother to start. But remember that Majestic was something truly innovative, great, and exciting, and Electronic Arts killed it before it ever had a chance to succeed.

Sad, really...

Don't Buy This Game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: February 27, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Majestic is a highly entertaining game in the vein of the X-Files and David Fincher's movie, "The Game". In fact, Majestic is one of the most original and engrossing games I ever played.

Then why the 1 star rating? Electronic Arts, the creators of Majestic, have decided that the game isn't profitable enough for them - one of the reasons it is being released on CD. Unfortuneatly, subscriptions to majestic were much lower than EA expected. Instead of trying to get more subscribers, they have nixed Majestic. Already, the message boards and "members only" areas of the majestic web page are gone... But it get worse. How? Majestic is being cancelled as of April 30, 2002. I'll say that again : MAJESTIC IS BEING CANCELLED AS OF APRIL 30, 2002.

As many gamers have been, I am throughly disappointed with this decision. Unfortuneatly, EA is not about to change their minds on this. In fact, rumor has it the entire majestic team has been fired...

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.

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!

I want to Play More!!!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: November 08, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I really like this game. It is a new concept that is finally something diferent than the Starcraft, or Half-Life models that are out there now.
The game is highly interactive, and the story is quite compelling. I find myself wondering what will happen next on a fairly constant basis... and yet, there is the problem.
There is a TON of downtime, and you are limited to aproximately 30 min of gameplay a day. I find myself looking at the game window in "StandBy" status for way too long, waiting for something to happen.
Overall, I would suggest this game highly; however, if you are looking for something to play for a prolonged amount of time in a sitting, look somewhere else.

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.

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.

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