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STOP---BEFORE YOU ORDER THIS GAME...BEWARE!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 13 / 25
Date: August 02, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I just wasted 26 bucks on this game because unlike the other Myst games I've played, this one doesn't work with my Intel graphics driver OR my ATI graphics driver. There is a forum full of people who can't play the game. This isn't mentioned in the product info, so hopefully folks will read this review before they buy. Once you open it (which is the way you find out it won't play since it isn't listed in the product description) you'll only get 50% of the price. So, I paid 26 bucks for the product, shipping, and game and would only get less than 10 (50% of the game's price) back for a product that I couldn't use. So, like I said....think hard before you buy this game.

RIP OFF

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 11 / 28
Date: August 13, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I blew money on this game and it won't work properly because it is not compatible with a DirectX 9.0c driver. If you go to the URU official website and search the forum for gameplay questions you will find that they admit this and that "someday" they will fix it.

So, I just got ripped off for $25.00. Don't bother with this one.

Myst Uru: Complete Chronicles

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 9 / 22
Date: July 08, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game sucks. It sucks because it is not compatable with my computer because of copyright protection encryption. The Ubisoft tech support people tell me that Intel needs to release an update for my drivers, and that it isn't their fault.

That is crap. I will never buy another game by this company again.

Glitches galore!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 9 / 18
Date: September 22, 2004
Author: Amazon User

If you want to buy Uru, do not buy this version. I have a brand new Dell computer with loads of memory but this game has problems everywhere. The worst part is that some of the problems could be fixed with the patch from Ubisoft for Ages of Myst but it won't download for Chronicles. There is nothing else on the website to help. They don't even seem to have any email tech help-only a 900 number. Don't buy this game unless you want a $40 headache!

no Loss

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 9
Date: December 28, 2004
Author: Amazon User

to MAC users everywhere - don't fret.
This game was total pants!!
(pants being a Scots term meaning it sucks!!!)
Nothing at all like the previous Myst games.

The graphics were mediocre at best -
nothing to compare with Myst 3:Exile.
the game play was a pedestrian search for pieces of cloth with symbols - none of the ingenious clue searching and then puzzle solving like the previous games.
There is no sign of Artrus and Catherine.
only their daughter - Yeesha - who sounds a bit like a tree-hugging hippy to me.

I played it - in a matter of hours rather than the months the previous games took me.
I didn't bother going online - and by the time I was curious enough to look at the online community - it had closed.
The whole concept of an online Myst was doomed to failure anyway.
Nonetheless - the game makers didn't have the online part right before they started - and it never worked successfully.

~You chaps didn't miss a thing.

Warning - does not play with all video cards

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: February 06, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I really wanted to play this game, being a fan of the previous three Myst puzzle games. I got it as a Christmas gift from my family and waited a little while before I loaded it. It never played. I got an opening sequence then crashed onto my desktop. The very, very hard to reach technical support (I never did get to ask my own question) had FAQ, two of which dealt with this type of crash. The answer was that you have to have NVIDIA GeForce 1,2,3,4 or FX; ATI Radeon 7000-9800 or better. I have neither, and even though my Dell is about a year old, I had no options. Too bad, the previews looked amazing.

Doesn't work with very many video cards.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: February 15, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Supposedly, if you had a shiny new gaming computer, they would put updates on the ubisoft website to make the game work. Well, I have computers spanning almost all OS verstions, every one set up for gaming, too. The "patch" for my current system doesn't really allow you to do much, since you can't actually get to any commands. The rendering is crude and a far cry from all the gorgeous Myst games we have played before. I *highly* recommend you make absolutely sure you have one of the original video cards recommended, and not one for which they offer a patch, which may or may not work.

Graphics sophisticated but....

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: February 16, 2006
Author: Amazon User

will not run correctly on my system. I have a fairly new Dell with all the system requirements needed for normal gaming, but this software must require something out of the ordinary. You cannot even read the save/load dialog boxes. They come across beige with no writing. Every time I restarted the game, I would be in the desert and have to run back through it to get to the other worlds. I absolutely loved Myst and Riven and they ran perfectly on my system. I tried to run this same game on an even newer computer and the same issues happened. I do not recommend this game at all.

WATCH OUT

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: February 11, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Don't they always say "download the latest drivers" "make sure you meet the minimum spec for the game".
Well they are wrong here. I have the latest drivers for my ATI Radeon 850 and DirectX 9C and thats the problem. The game won't run with them.
Play this on an out of date PC or forget it.

Intel NOT inside!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 17 / 22
Date: May 10, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Let me start off by saying that I am a BIG fan of the Myst games and stories. I bought this game on sale for about $30 at Circuit City and was so psyched to get started playing.
The game installed fine, the graphics and scenery were absolutely breathtaking! The gameplay runs roughly like this:

You get to design and play as a modern character/avatar (think Sims2). You start off in a desert near the infamousfissure in the ground. Yes, this is the same hole in the ground that Atrus and Anna lived. The only difference with this game is now you can walk and run around, explore, and manipulate objects in a way that you never could in any of the other games. After leaving the desert, you get to visit many different beautiful and elaborate Ages... all with stunning effects and fun things to poke around with and explore. Sound effects are pretty much the same. Some of the background music (like in the Kadish gallery) is very beautiful.
"So," you say, "why the overall 2 stars?" Well watch out! For those people running newer PCs, particularly those that have the Intel Pentium(R) chip, there may be some MAJOR problems reading text in both journals and linking books. I think there is some sort of bug that interferes with the graphics display somehow. You can still click on the linking books and be taken to where you need to go, but it makes for a VERY difficult if IMPOSSIBLE time trying to figure things out. I was able to win the regular URU game itself, however, you need to be able to read some of these journals to win the expansion sets. So my suggestion is either not have that Intel chip or get used to looking up walkthroughs online. I did go to the UBI website and the only suggestion was to lower the game resolution and tinker with the settings. This may help with some machines, but it didn't help with mine at all.
Seeing as how this is a VERY important problem UBIsoft has failed to fix (or even mention on the packaging), I will only give the game 2 stars overall. I would give it one, but the overall gameplay is very fun and addictive.

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