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A Wonderful Find

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 8 / 8
Date: June 14, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I was attracted to this game by the price. I figured even if it was bad, I wouldn't be out too much. But once I had the game installed and running, I was lost in its lush and eerie world. The graphics are spectacular, worth the price alone. I found it challenging, but there are on-line help boards and walk-throughs available, and I did occasionally visit those for hints. The game is logical, and in my experience, not as frustrating as Riven. My biggest disappointment was when I realized I had finished. I wanted to have more. If you like logic-puzzle games, like Riven or Myst, you will probably enjoy this one.

Beautiful Graphics - Terrible Acting - Big Letdown!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 11 / 14
Date: April 08, 2000
Author: Amazon User

At first this game seemed intriguing and mysterious, really complex - but that's only on the surface. There is no complexity, the puzzles are the game! I love adventure games, however, I haven't found any yet that will challenge me intellectually. The puzzle solving just doesn't do it for me. I would like to see a game that presents a better story, a true mystery where one would unravel a real story not just puzzles. The end is such a dissapointment - remember Dallas, when Victoria Principle wakes up from a dream and finds that Bobby never really died? Well this is just as bad. It's a shame because the graphics are good and the different worlds are so interesting and intrigueing. And that's all they are, teasers with no true substance and a really lame ending.

Disappointing Graphics and Acting

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 13 / 19
Date: December 29, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I won this game as a prize at work, and having been a fan of games like Myst and Bad Mojo, I thought it looked promising. What I found was a game that has a poor 3-D graphics engine (it can only be run full screen at 640 x 480 pixels at a maximum of 16-bit color) and awful acting by the game characters. The puzzles are mildly entertaining, but having to swap disks repeatedly (there are 3 discs that make up this game) takes a lot away from the flow.

I found the story interesting, but the terrible overacting by the actors in the game ended up making much of it seem really cheesy.

If you are looking for a game with better graphics, and a much more engaging story along similar lines as Morpheus, get System Shock 2. It's a much better game.

I give it three stars for the story, but only one star for the acting, graphics and gameplay. Total, 2 stars.

Excellent Escapism

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: March 11, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I loved this game. Initially I bought it because of the price...and because I thought it might be interesting. I was hooked right from the jump. The graphics were incredible and the little movie scenes took me by surprise and left me with goosebumps. I'm not a bigtime gamer but I love this type of game where you can just get lost in the world you're playing in. I especially enjoyed the dream worlds...I wish they were more in-depth so I could have explored even more and spent more time there. I recommend this game to everyone who likes the escape of this type of game. Some of the other reviews on here talk about flatness of acting and all kinds of technical flaws, etc...just play the game and immerse yourself. You'll love it... I want to make a return trip to the Herculania and all it's bizarre, magnificent worlds!

Can't Go Wrong

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 10 / 14
Date: December 31, 1999
Author: Amazon User

Morpheus seems to be a sleeper amoung the adventure games. I played this one a few months ago and loved it. If you like games like Riven and Obsidian, you'll enjoy Morpheus, too.

Morpheus, very good game but very creapy.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: December 15, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I love this games story and its mix of old and new technology. For example there are old recoring devices and old ship equipment and also a machine that creates dreams and heals the users (very complicated you have to play it to understant). The controls are easy; it's a simple point and click system. The graphics are very good and the acting is good except for the main character (you control him) his voice overs and comments are basicly without emotion. A very good adventure game but heres where it gets creapy. There are ghosts everywhere and playing it alone in the dark is dangerous. You can go into the undecoritive bowels of the ship and just the sceanery will scare you. It makes you want to pass the part quickly and go back to the colorful sceans. Otherwise a great game. If you like older sci-fi games with a slightly creapy feel definitly get this.

That's What I Like!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: January 02, 2004
Author: Amazon User

The year is 1957. You are an Arctic explorer, intent on solving the mystery of his father's disappearance some thirty years before. Unfortunately, you've become lost and it looks as though you're going to go the same way as dear old dad. You keep having these strange dreams. Coming out of one (or have you?), you suddenly find the icebound hulk of a cruise ship. When you climb on board to find shelter, you discover that the ship is the Herculania, the very vessel that your father was investigating when he was lost.

_Morpheus_ is a great example of a breed of adventure that pretty much started with MYST and is now, unfortunately for people like me, beginning to wane a bit in prominence: first person, point and click, atmospheric. You might call it "Amber on Ice;" like _Amber_ it involves somewhat supernatural phenomena and getting into the minds and dreams of others. The story that is revealed as you wander about the ship--presented in QT movies--is a kind of Phantom of the Opera with a gruesome twist. Unlike the stories in some other games, it is quite well-developed and realised, making for intriguing clues and puzzles integral to the story. The characters are, well, mental cases, but they are believable people and (with one exception) you end up feeling sympathy for them.

The graphics are really quite nice, with a 360-degree view. (My one complaint here was that though you could look around you to all sides, you could not look either up or down). The paths that you could travel were somewhat limited, however. In some rooms, you could, for example, only go into the corner by the desk. There were also a lot of things I would have liked to have been able to examine more closely. On the other hand, there were a few things that didn't seem to have any purpose. On the whole, the look trod the edge between sparse and lush, with backgrounds beautifully rendered but not too many objects.

As in MYST, the puzzles are largely mechanical. You need to make the ship work so you can figure out what's going on; you need to gain access to locked staterooms and so on. Later on there are some puzzles that involve acquiring inventory, but there is essentially no inventory you carry around; you use each item pretty much where you find it. There are no conversations and no interactions. For me, this was great; I prefer "true" puzzles to task accomplishment and mechanics to inventory. Others might find it tedious or difficult.

I ran this game on a brand new AMD 2800 with XP and the only real problem I had was that the mouse cursor was so extraordinarily sensitive that until I learned fine motor control I was all over the place. Fortunately, this didn't take long. I also had some problems with the movies: green screens and the like. I have heard there is a patch for this, but I couldn't find it.

_Morpheus_ took me about 25 hours to play. The start was slow and I wasn't sure I liked it at first. When things started to go together, I liked it a great deal. I was sorry to see it end, and the ending was quite abrupt!

Overall, this is the kind of adventure game that I like. If you're a fan of MYST an MYST-like games, you'll like this, too.

OK for the price

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 8 / 14
Date: February 10, 2000
Author: Amazon User

A beautifully rendered, but strange and wasteful tale. I bought Morpheus because it was inexpensive and the type of game I love. But I was quickly plunged into a muddled, strange and frankly, uninteresting plot involving a bunch of awful people that deserved their awful fates.

After perservering through several pointless and not-very-tricky puzzles, you discover that everyone gets what they deserve. And, from the original days of Myst, we're used to a slight let-down at the end, as a movie-ette wraps up the final details of our long ordeal, but Morpheus just leaves you wondering - did the programmers know what happened to our heros?

stable game with interesting storyline

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: December 12, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I played this on a PowerMac G4 and it was incredibly stable. I'd even leave the game sitting overnight, come back in the morning and start right back up without a sputter; also, shifts to audio and visual cutscenes were very smooth.

The story is interesting. You begin as a nearly frozen Arctic explorer who is looking for his father, and you find the Herculania, a mysterious luxury ship with people suspended in odd pods. As you wander you see ghostly apparitions of past events, and as time goes by you piece together the macabre happenings and even find out what happened to your father. In the course of your advetures you enter the dreams of several characters and these settings were as interesting as the beautiful ship's theatre, cabins and scientific rooms.

Very well done first-person adventure game.

a nice trip for sci-fi lovers

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: December 31, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game will take you on a trip trough the past into the future. It triggered my fantasy with it's wonderful graphics and intriguing story line. Puzzles were difficult but fun. You need not buy a hint book to enjoy this game which has a lovely surprise ending.

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