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Awful, horrible, 1 of the worst games I ever wanted to play.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 14 / 18
Date: January 31, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I can't even begin to tell you how disappointed I was in this game. When I first heard of it I thought this was going to be an amazing game; The idea is that you hold in your hand the cd that a serial killer turned kidnapper sent to the police. The cd is full of clues and its up to you to solve the case and bring the victims home. I expected something like the CSI game, but with a twist because in missing you have to go online to various websites to help you along in the game. It was nothing like CSI, it was nothing like any crime game, in fact I almost forgot that the game was supposed to be about catching the bad guy.

The game is just a series of mini games and all the mini games are annoying. Each game comes in a couple parts; part one is to do something that makes you roll your eyes because its either too simple or just dumb, once you do the eye rolling part you are given a clue that you need to take online and search for whatever it is that the game wants this time (part 2). Usually at this point you will find a website set up by the game that may or may not be in english, many times I skipped the correct site because silly me I expected the clues to be in the language the game is in. Most of the sites you can change into english by clicking the right flag, but a couple of them I couldn't find flags to translate for me. Part 3: start checking your email because the game sends you dozens of boring pointless emails along with 3 or 4 emails that you must have to continue with the game. Part 4: if by some stroke of luck you managed to find the information needed go back into the game and type it in to move on to the next annoying game, otherwise there is a good chance you need to turn the game off and wait a day or so until the game decides to email to you the thing that you need to solve the minigame that your in. You see there are a couple minigames that require you to download a program that will be emailed to you, but for some reason even if you have beaten every other minigame available to you and you can't move on until you get the email, you shouldn't expect to get it for a while. In fact there were a few different points in the game where I had to completely stop playing for a couple days because the game would not send me the program I needed.

This game was awful and it should have been great. Don't waste your money and your time, you really will regret it.

I'll say it again: Good concept, terrible game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 13 / 15
Date: February 22, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I bought this just from reading the description and thinking it would be innovative and engaging. I was very much dissapointed.

The puzzles jump from offendingly simple to impossibly difficult to just plain innane.

The reliance on the internet is an interesting concept if there were some way for them to make it work consistenly. Many times I became stuck because the clue I needed was only a specific webpage, presumably made by the designers, that just did not show up in my searches. Even after talking to others or looking at walkthroughs of what people specifically searched for the pages would not turn up. With no help at all I could only imagine the hours people wasted on things like this. They needed to either ensure that the needed result would be found easily through a search OR make the clues that you need to find something that you could find on sites besides just their own.

Some of the puzzles had nothing to do with thought, cunning or "solving" anything, but were just annoyingly difficult shockwave arcade-ish games or even on one particularly infuriating occasion a pixel-hunt. To have to waste so much time on something so innane to proceed is extremely frustrating.

I had a lot of trouble with getting the emails. In fact I got quite a small fraction and most of them late. A lot of them are just story and aren't necessary, but some of them have hints or applications that make it difficult to do without, occasionally impossible. I particularly enjoyed receiving in my mail hints on how to do a puzzle five minutes after I had already finished.

So imagine going through all these frustrations, and then coming to an extremely anti-climatic ending where you basically do nothing to bring it to that point. It makes it feel as though your efforts were futile. And in conjuction with my last paragraph I have not received any emails on news of how it ended. For all I know Jack and Karen were found dead and the phoenix killed my "team members" who went to find them. It's been a half an hour.

I'm not expecting anything.

I will say that the videos and storyline were interesting, as was the information given about alchemy, astronomy, renessaince etc. That alone wasn't worth it for me though. It seems like all the energy was put into those and the gameplay was coincedental.

Horrible, HORRIBLE execution

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 9 / 10
Date: December 13, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game would have been awesome if the email function worked. As it stands now, you'll have to wait upwards of a day or two to receive emails with clues vital to continuing in the game.

This is complete madness, the absolute epitome of horrendous game design, especially since this email function was the only selling point of this rather dull and poorly produced game in the first place.

Do yourself a favor: put away your credit card, click the back button on your browser, and search for one of the many online riddle sites that offer the same sort of arbitrary puzzles for free, without the awful acting and the crippling dependence upon an a faulty email system.

Boo, Dreamcatcher. Boo.

"Missing: Since January" Does Not Work!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 18
Date: September 11, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Very disappointed in this game because after three installs, it still will NOT work on my six-month old computer using Windows XP. It keeps on crashing my computer and causing it to reboot. When I was able to play it for a few minutes, the puzzles made no sense and were very difficult. The instruction book that comes with the game is very poorly written and is not accurate. The instructions are unclear and don't match up with what is displayed on your computer screen. Perhaps this is due to the instructions being translated from French or something...I don't know.

Very upset that I blew $20 on yet another game I cannot play on my computer.

THIS GAME SUCKS!! TOO MANY FRIGGIN' BUGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

...no way jose

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 8
Date: January 11, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The funny thing is.. I can't even tell you if the game is good or not because you have to register online (otherwise it won't work at all!!) and every time I tried doing that I got the error message "server is unavailable right now - please try again later" hahaha... so every time I tried "again later" I had to start the game from the beginning and watch the intro again and there was no way to skip that. And as far as I read in the description you even have to be online most of the time you are playing to receive hints and emails... bla bla bla.. long story short.. I wouldn't want this game if you would give to me for free... save your money.

Missing CD unreadable

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 24
Date: July 10, 2004
Author: Amazon User

The package I received from Amazon contained an installation CD that was not readable by my computer. I cannot return it since it has been opened. I cannot sell it because it doesn't work. I'm out $19. I recommend you do not make the same mistake and don't even consider purchasing it.

Different, yet appalling

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 8
Date: August 26, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game consists mainly of the following:

-clicking on floating shapes(some of which are moving) for no discernable reason
-trying combinations of given nouns in Google to find the pages set up by the game makers
-playing truly asinine arcade games
-watching movies which are seldom in the least compelling

Admittedly, this game is a form of annoyance I have not before experienced, thus I suppose it is, in some way, innovative.

I should also note that there are 2 ``puzzles" near the end which are rather hard (on the patience and hands, not the brain), which was presumably a last-ditch effort to expand game-play time. Kudos.

Demon Possessed

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 23
Date: November 30, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is absolutely demonic. Throughout the game are signs of witchcraft and demonic activity. A sick and twisted indivudual came up with the concept for the game. The images are highly disturbing. No one should buy or play this game.

***Caution**** Missing Since January

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: July 14, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The game was fair at best.... the problem is, when I finally completed the game and tried to uninstall it, the uninstall program deleted ALL OF MY PERSONAL DATA AND SETTINGS! I am an experienced computer user and I dont' know if it was some crazy glitch or a bad joke, but none the less, it ate half of my computer!!! USE CAUTION with this game.

Save your money

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: October 02, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Wow, until I played "Missing" I had no idea you could make an entire game from Flash.

Why aren't there _more_ games like this on the market?? Oh yeah, because the only thing you can do with Flash is drag-n-drop, chase balls around on the screen, and watch videos.

To add insult to injury, as one reviewer noted -- this game is indeed demonic. That reviewer might have sounded like a crazy crackpot, but one must only go ten minutes into the game before agreeing with him. Because of the email bug, I was forced to watch the 40-second preview video over (of a women running around terrified and screaming from the supposed serial killer) about five times before I figured out that I needed to download and install some patch. Here's a great example of boring and offensive: an early puzzle involves you watching a video that shows (at the end) someone being kicked and shot in the head. You are then given 10 or more stills from the film to put in order. To solve this, you end up watching the video about 20 times, every time from the very beginning and every time making two clicks to go from frame-ordering to the film. Your reward is yet another screen with floating balls you must chase with your mouse. Having fun yet?

To put my review in perspective: I liked playing Grand Theft Auto and Silent Hill.

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