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Fun and Educational but gets frusturiating

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 52 / 57
Date: October 19, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This is a great adventure game. But if you are not very, very aware of every single thing you see you will miss something.There are parts of the game where if you do something wrong there is no 2nd chance. One thing I rate a game on is how easy it is to move around. On a rate from 1-5 this game gets a 2. The control is the mouse. After clicking where you want to go there is a very long delay. This can get very frustrating when you have to travel a long way.The acting could use some work but it is good to a point. What this game DOES have is very good graphics. You really feel like you are walking through a tomb. Good game I enjoyed it but you should wait til it is on sale.

Annoying flaws and failing plot

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 16 / 16
Date: April 24, 2002
Author: Amazon User

In "Egypt 1156 B.C. - Tomb of the Pharaoh" you play the role of Ramoses, an Egyptian youth whose father is wrongly accused of raiding the Pharaoh's tomb. You have three days to prove his innocence.

"Egypt 1156" is actually an edutainment title. You can click on various objects which will lead you to an encyclopedia reference. The game also weaves ancient Egyptian culture into the puzzles. There is even a part in which you get to play Senet, an ancient board game.

At first this game seemed pretty good. Most puzzles, although easy, were logical. The graphics were beautiful (although less stunning than today's adventure games), and the game was very stable (no crashes). The interface is very easy to learn. Most of the time you need only to point and click to move. Dialog is handled with a multiple choice-style set of responses. You need only to select the desired response and enter.

After a little while, however, I began to notice numerous flaws, most of which merely annoying. A lot of them could be overlooked depending on how interested you are in adventure games. The music, for example, was good, but was one of those endless loop recordings that began to drive me crazy. I shut it off. The male characters all seemed to be twins, as I couldn't tell one from the other. I couldn't skip past dialog, so if there were several things to ask a character about, I had to listen to the same introductory dialog several times. Several of the scenes were so dark I had to grope around, looking to see if the cursor changed to see if I could do anything. The cursor would change if you could interact with people/objects, but would only change if you moused over a certain part of the object (for example, it only would change if I put the cursor over the upper half of a person, not the lower half). There were typos in the dialog subtitles.

Then a major flaw. The game is divided in to several acts, each taking place in a different location. Once you move on to the next location, however, you can't go back to an earlier one. You have to go back to an earlier save and repeat whatever happened since then. You can die, by the way, so save often.

Finally the plotline fell apart for me. Maybe it was the unfamiliar Egyptian names, which made it hard for me to remember who was connected to what. But in any case, I failed to see why certain objects would implicate certain people were guilty, and I no longer knew why I doing certain things. The only reason I was able to finish the game was that certain characters told you what to do or understanding of the entire plotline wasn't necessary to solve certain puzzles. You don't need to figure out, for instance, that you should find a way to stop aiming arrows at you so the character won't die. At this point I lost interest in the game.

I wouldn't recommend "Egypt 1156 B.C." to most people. There are three classes of people that might enjoy it. The first would be die-hard, nondiscriminating adventure gamers. (The game is, by the way, very linear, for those of you who hate that.) The second would be junior high schoolers (I say junior high schoolers because the game is very easy) who need or want to learn something about ancient Egypt. Lastly, Egyptologists might enjoy it. Otherwise I'd pass; it wouldn't be that hard to find a more worthwhile title.

Good concept, bad game

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 9 / 10
Date: June 12, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I was really looking forward to playing this game since I'm an Egyptology buff. The graphics aren't too bad--some are even spectacular--but the gameplay is frustrating. I had to play one section over and over because I didn't accumulate items in the correct order. There are a couple of items that don't appear to have any purpose at all. Maybe they do, but I was able to get through the game without using them. I was also disappointed that the game didn't venture into all of the places on the map. Why are they there?

High points were the Senet game and the information about items, gods, and every day life of ancient Egypt.

Low points were the character graphics (ugly and mechanical), difficulty picking up items and replaying sections over and over.

My own pet peeve...the subtitles contain spelling errors and don't always match what is spoken. Sloppy editing, Dreamcatcher!!! However, they did manage to fit "perspicacity" into the script--twice (for whatever that's worth).

Overall, the educational aspects of the game are fun and interesting, but the gameplay is blah.

Good concept, bad game

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: February 15, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I enjoyed Dreamcatcher's idea for the game, but it wasn't a very good game. My main complaint is your character moves WAY to fast when you try to move around with your mouse, even with the slowest setting on. It has alright graphics, but I believe it doesn't have that great of an interface.

If your REALLY desperate for an adventure game to play, go ahead and buy this one, but let's not count on it being on the top ten great games list for awhile.

Egyptology Alive

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: May 31, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Game play is kind of weak but the reconstruction of the temple, tomb, and city is incredible. I give it a 10 on the educational scale and about a 5 on the game play scale.

A great feature for educational facilities is to turn the "game play" off and have a virtual tour of the sites.

Boring unless you are an Egytology fan

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: April 01, 2001
Author: Amazon User

More like a history lesson than a game. Very difficult to follow, if you like history you may enjoy otherwise find something else.

Graphics are terrible

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: January 09, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game sounds intriguing. The graphics are terrible and dark. Maybe 4 or 5 scenes to the game. Puzzles are not good and the game is very short. The title sounds like it would be interesting. The game is nothing like the title depicts. Just 2 stars from me. In fact, maybe 1 1/2 would be better.

Egypt was ok

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: April 27, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I've played games like this before and it was ok . the graphics were good but it was hard to get around the village and the temple . But beyond that it alright.

Game Would Not Run on Win XP Pro

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: April 08, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I would love to have played this game, but was very dissapointed when it would not play on my XP-Pro System, which has top of the range sound and graphics cards. Total waste of money. If I could give it a zero rating, I would.

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