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Great Graphics, Excellent Soundtrack, Terrible Gameplay

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 16 / 20
Date: January 11, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game should be called "Wolf Killer" instead of "The Chronicles of Narnia". All you do is go around killing wolves and collecting coins. It doesn't make for an enoyable game at all.

I love the Narnia books and the recent movie, so I had high hopes for this game. Unfortunately, it has been a major disappointment. I can't even describe how annoying this game is to play. It's not that it has any bugs or anything, it's just that the gameplay is that bad.

On a positive note, it does have great graphics and an excellent musical soundtrack. But, I spent $30 for a game, not a screen saver and some MP3s. Overall, it's a bad game, and one that I have no desire to finish. A wasted $30 that taught me a lesson... play a demo before buying a game. If there is no demo, then the game just isn't worth it.

Don't ruin your child's Christmas....check your graphics card

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 14 / 26
Date: December 10, 2005
Author: Amazon User

After major disappointment with the Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire game, our son was really looking forward to this game based on the first 2 reviews. Unfortunately, we have no idea if he would like it. After installing it on our almost new computer, we received an error: "Fatal Error! Sorry, but your machine is unable to run this game. We require a graphics card which can support vertex and pixel shader v1.1. The game will now exit." What a deal--we have to upgrade our video card in order to run this game! Since these requirements are not standard on new high-end computers, it would have been very nice of Buena Vista Games to highlight this requirements. I can imagine the tears, tantrums and frustrations throughout the US on Christmas morning. What a shame. What a rip-off. They must be in cahoots with the graphics card manufacturers.

This has now received a T/Teen rating.

I have an angry child

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: December 27, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Well, today, with great anticipation my son and I installed this game. He was so excited! I had the same problem as some of the rest of the reviewers, it won't play on his less than 2 yr. old Dell computer because of the graphics card. What a total waste of money!!! He can't even play the game and we might as well have taken a match to the money we spent. I wish I had my money back, and I wish the companies that design games would keep in mind that not everyone has disposable income to replace graphics cards.

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.

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

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.

Buy something else

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 11 / 16
Date: March 25, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The first copy of this game I purchased did not work. One of the CD's had a defect. So I had to return it for a replacement.

The second copy of this CD installed, but would not run. I have a pretty new Nvidia GForce graphics card, but this game required Pixel Shaders which many Nvidia cards to not have. Here's a list of cards that do NOT work. http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_13959.html

Also the game takes a very long time to load because of it's copy protection. It validates the CD is an original cd every time it loads which takes a while. It also checks for software emulators.

Very disappointed. Wasted many hours trying to get this to work. Buy something else, and have some fun.

DON"T BUY THIS GAME

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 8
Date: December 23, 2005
Author: Amazon User

You will need a very good graphics card to run this game and a lot of memory for your computer. I have a laptop that is not even 6 months old yet with a better video card than my desktop and I still can't play this game. After many frustrated hours on the phone I was told I would have to buy a new laptop if I want to play this game on the go. So I took my game back to the store. Maybe Disney teamed up with Bill Gates. Don't spoil your Christmas with this PC game if you have Gamecube, Playstation 2 or Xbox, buy it for them instead.

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

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