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Do not buy this product

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: December 27, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The 4 CD's come in a box with no instructions. There is no information as to how to start the installation. There is no manual. There is no complete manual to be printed from the CD. (I looked over all of the disks). I installed the four disks starting with number one. The program immediately bombs when you click the desk top icon. There is no number to call for technical support. I have a new computer. As all of the other reviews report a special video card is probably necessary. There is no product warning for this disaster. Do not waste your money on this poorly planned product.

Disappointed for Different Reasons

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: December 31, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Well, I guess I must have better systems than those listed, as I was able to install and run the game on both of my home PC's. The graphics were great, and the game ran smooth. Why 1 star? Well, the game lists itself as being for 1 or 2 players, and that it can be played co-operatively. This is a style of play that game designers just don't seem to understand. Deathmatch, the standard "multiplayer" fare found in most games, gets boring after about the first 5 minutes. Games that allow you to team up with another HUMAN and actually complete the game story line are in strong demand. Every gamer I know is constantly complaining about the lack of them on the market. The lame arguments about the difficulty for the programmers just doesn't hold water. I can play deathmatch with 64 other players and have it sync perfectly, but they can't get the game to play together?!?
But back to Narnia. Yes, the game is co-operative. But you have to both play on the same system on the same keyboard at the same time. Each character has to have unique control keys, and obviously only one can use the mouse. I have never encountered another game that does this, and to be frank it's irritating and nearly impossible to do. So, like everyone else, I bought the game, intsalled it, and might as well have burned my money. We love the Narnia stories, and were very excited to have the possibility to actually play through the movie together. Let the buyer beware.

Check System Requirements BEFORE buying!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: December 28, 2005
Author: Amazon User

We have a six month old HP computer system. Imagine our surprise, when on Christmas day, we loaded the Narnia game only to be told that it required "Pixel Shader" in order to operate. Sure enough, this requirement is listed in small print on the bottom of the box, but we sure didn't notice the bottom of the box BEFORE we opened it. Check your system to make sure you can meet the minimum requirments!

Requirements of this type should largely advertised both on the front of the box, and on the advertisements/descriptions so that there is no ugly and potentially costly surprise.

Very disappointing. Awful gameplay......

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 9
Date: January 03, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I went out and watched the Narnia movie and liked it. So I thought I would like the game too, I was wrong. This game is really lame and dumb.
Here are some of the reasons I don't like this game.

1. Many of the missions stink. For example: The first mission you run around your house in London and break down doors to try to find your family. It also goes so in dept it is dumb. Like it take about 30 minuets to get to the beavers dam. It's just not fun.
2. You don't use the mouse. Normally you use the mouse a lot. In this game you never use the mouse. You have to use keys on the keyboard to attack ect. It is also very hard to move around because your view keeps changing.
3. The Game comes with the discs only. No installing help, no game info, it comes with NOTHING!!!! That is really lame.
4. You can't even get weapons for a long time. You can't even fight you just run around and hide from Ms. Macredy! It is really poorly disined.
5. The view of your character keeps switching and zomeing in and out. One minute you will be right next to your character the next you're be a long way away and can beraly see you character.

Rating it each section:
Graphics: 3/5 The garphics can sometimes be bad. most of the time there fine.
Sound: 5/5 Awsome sound. That's the only good thing about the game.
Controls: 1/5 Just awful Totaly terrible. you never use the mouse so it's close to inpossible to move around, even with a gamepad.
Gameplay: 1/5 wow it's hard to describe how bad it is. Let me put it this way: There are gamers who like FPF (First pereson fighting) FPS (First person Shooting) and C&C (Comand and Conquer)Nomater what you like of the three listed types I bet you will hate this game. just awful.
OVERALL: 1/5 Sound awsom. Graphics okay. Everything else is terrible.

I strongly suggest that you save your money and buy some other game. If you like fanticy sword fighting I suggest that you get Lord of the Rings The Return of the King. That is much better. I Liked the movie I liked the books. but the game? This is the worst game I have EVER played. I You may have noticed not many other people liked it either. DO NOT BUY THIS GAME.

Mikey Lamb,14 WI

This game sucks

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 31
Date: February 02, 2006
Author: Amazon User

bad bad game u play as littel kids running around and collecting coin and if u dont collect all the coins then u have to restart the whole level again another thing thats bad is that in the 3rd level u have to run around a house and stay away from an old lady its pointless no action in and bad controls and game play over all dont wast your moneey buy a real game like Quake 4

Decent, but.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 10
Date: January 04, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Alright, it's time to silence the whiners and new people to the tech in here. You DO NOT need a new videocard to play the game. Heck, i can probably run it on my laptop's IGP. If you can't run it on many new PCs, then you're doing something wrong. You probably need new drivers, or to install direct-x or something simple like that. As to all this rabble about a "special videocard", what did you guys expect from buying the $99 special at your local store or dell's latest "count your change" machine.

As to the actual gameplay itself, i found it playable for a bit, and missions such as the london house were intended to teach you the basics of attacks, targetting and movement. Things such as the beavers dam were intended to pad out the game. Do you really think it would have been fun if you just walked through narnia for a few hours, talked to the witch, lah-de-dah, whacked her and finished up? I thought not. My only gripe to this title is that the AI seems to be useless. They just stand there, they don't fight. Graphcially, the title isn't too bad, it's better than San Andreas, i'll tell you that now. If it looks horrible to you, try boosting the game above 640x480 before complaining.

Audibly, we can easily find this game's best aspect. The range of music from the movie is superb, the voice acting from the actual actors is great and combat sounds proper and perfect.

In the end, you can do worse with a game - just buy Fantastic 4 and you'll know what i mean. But if you're going to complain that you can't run the game, try and figure out what you're doing wrong first before blaming it, and secondly, smack yourself next time you buy the cheapest possible computer components and expect God (or whichever figure you choose to, or not to worship) to come down and make it run everything like a $25 Million super computer. Or here's a better tip - if you had a PS2 or XBOX or Gamecube, why are you buying it for PC to play on your 14" el-cheapo LCD when you probably have at least 30" to use in the living room? Rent it, and if you like it THEN buy it. Now was that so hard?

Looks like the White Witch won this time.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: May 25, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The book was great. The movie was great. But the day the game was made was the day Narnia died...
In Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, And The Wardrobe, you can usually play as any one of the Pevensie children. However, when in combat, if you're being attacked by monsters, do your siblings rush to your aid? No, they just stand there and watch you die.[Not very nice are they?] And another thing, your enemies always attack you. Just you! And they ignore everyone else. They just focus on you like homing missiles, bent on murdering you.
And the combat system is awful. Basically all you do is press the attack button[H] over and over again, hoping to kill your enemies before they kill you. And you can barely block. Only Peter and Edmund can block and all that is, is them raising their arms for a half second. So basically, you have to repeatedly press block for it to work at all.
Long story short, if you're a fan of games where all you do is run around desperately trying to kill monsters, this game is for you. But if you like good games where you kill countless enemies, get Jedi Academy.

Run! It's THE McReidy!!!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: January 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

My boys, my husband included, have really enjoyed this. The 5-yr old has to play with help, but the 9 yr old can play independantly. Usually, the minute it comes on, they ALL crowd around the computer. They got to a higher level, last night...it had been particularly problematic to solve and when they managed to do so, it was as if they really were in Narnia! LOL

buy this if you're mad at your money

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: December 29, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Our kids were very excited to receive this game on Christmas only to be disappointed that it needed a special video card. We had to spend over $100 to make this game work. The extra money is not worth owning the game.

pathetic don't buy it

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 25
Date: January 23, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Ifound the game so pathetic i can't even describe it.I played it for one minute and I fell asleep.
Do something actualy worth your time and don't waste your life. Get Age of Empires III

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