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Blah.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 10 / 16
Date: April 13, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This was fairly lousy. My fiance and I have been playing games like this for years, so we have plenty of practice and basis for comparison. The puzzles in Rhem tended to make very little (if any) sense in the context of the game, so they weren't logical. As for the graphics, it looks like someone went bonkers applying the same two or three textures to every possible surface. I think the people who designed this game need to go back and play some good quality games themselves so they can get an idea of what a puzzle game should be like. The end has no interest or closure...just basically, congratulations, you made it through.
Blah. Don't waste money on this.

Don't Bother

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 9 / 17
Date: February 20, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I am a Myst fan. I buy games that contain puzzles and problems where you have to think. My first problem or puzzle was trying to install this game! Grrr. I had a difficult time and I have upgraded graphics and memory on my computer. I had to go into my hard drive to find the game in order to play it after installation, then I had to reset my screen settings.
After about 30 minutes of this I finally got to play the game.
This is what I think:
* Installation is difficult
* Graphics are not that impressive
* I was playing like I was in a dark room looking out a window.
(I like full screen graphics.)
Don't bother with this game it's a waste of money.

Bleh!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 12
Date: July 22, 2003
Author: Amazon User

The first warning I got that perhaps Rhem was not going to set any records for standards was on installation. "You will need QuickTime 4!" it informed me. "Here is the website to get it!" A quick search confirmed it: they require QuickTime (an older version at that) but don't supply it. You have to go to the Apple website and download it yourself. Is that impossibly hard, does it mean the game is useless and mean? No, but it's a flashing red light all the same: the game is not going to be helpful. You want a shortcut, something on the Start menu, access to the game in any fashion? Go get it yourself.

Rhem feels and plays like a 1992 attempt to be Myst, with the bad graphics, cheap memory-stingy movement, and dull storyline that we've come to associate with the era. The scenery is machines, machines, machines. I lost patience with it in record time and hope I never get bored enough to go back to it.

If you played the original Myst and haven't used your computer for anything but spreadsheets since then, you might find Rhem mildly diverting. Otherwise don't bother.

RHEM

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 39
Date: November 20, 2003
Author: Amazon User

YOU NEED TO BE A MAGICIAN OR A COMPUTER GEEK JUST TO DOWNLOAD THIS GAME INTO YOUR COMPUTER. I BOUGHT THIS GAME TWO MONTHS AGO AND HAVEN'T THE FOGGIEST IDEA ON HOW TO GET IT TO RUN AND I HAVE A TOP OF THE LINE COMPUTER WITH LOTS OF POWER.

Unpolished and not worth it.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 8
Date: August 05, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Rhem is clearly a home effort. I bought this in a store for $25, and I expected the gem the reviews promised, but I was greatly disappointed.

Firstly, the resolution of pictures in the game is tiny, and there's no way to change to even a 1024x768 mode. Since my monitor doesn't even have a resolution low enough to full screen the images, I was stuck wincing at a tiny image centered in a black screen.

The graphics are sub-Myst, even 11 years later, and further make the exploration of the 'world' difficult.

The story isn't altogether enticing---I never got far enough to learn more than to see a character basically tell me, "this is Rhem; I'm leaving; you're stuck."

The puzzles, as was mentioned in another review, also make little sense in the context of the world, with the exception of some of the water puzzles which were fun.

Don't buy this game---at least not until it costs about $7 max.

Terrible

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 8
Date: October 13, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Every scene in this game looks the same so it's too hard to navigate. The best grafic in this game is the one on the box, the ones in the game are unimpressive at best.
The Myst games are awe inspiring, this game is nowhere close to that.

Didn't work

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: December 19, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The game told me to use 600 screen resolution, my monitor doesn't even go down that low. I installed the game, and tried playing it. I clicked "new game" and I got an error message telling me it could not find "Intro" file. Now I know why it was a $9.00 Staples game. Never buy games at Staples on the buget shelf. I'm 0 and 2 there. By the time the games end up there, they're too outdated for any computer built in the last few years. Rhem can't even be played.

Very disappointed

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 48 / 51
Date: September 10, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is one of the worst of the Myst wannabes.

I am a long time adventure gamer. I have been beating puzzles for a long time and I love the first person genre.

The puzzles in this game were not especially difficult. They were not especially interesting either, because this game's biggest problem is that it completely fails to give one a feeling of being immersed in another place (in the manner of myst, riven, yaddayadda). After an hour of running around in "Rhem" and solving puzzles right and left, I had no sense of connection to a larger plot or intriguing characters. We are not walking through a city which feels like it was ever occupied. As far as I can tell, Rhem is just a city designed to be a puzzle. Period. We walk through the streets of this maze-like place figuring out symbols and writing down numbers. YAWN. Even the puzzles are so simple that my child could have this one solved in no time.

I can go on playing this game, solving puzzles and eventually I might even discover a point to all of it, but so far it is just tedious and boring like the worst of the Dreamcatcher fiascos.

I don't want to.

Pitiful!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 15
Date: August 15, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game, the minute i put it in, was horrible...i wish that i hadnt paid 29.99 for this! Myst, Riven, Exile, Riddle of the Sphynx and Omega Stone are so much better!

DONT WASTE YOUR TIME AND MONEY!

Major Confusion

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: May 23, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I haven't been able to figure out any of the puzzles. There's so many paths to take that it's easy to get turned around or lost. It would have been better if there was a way to "mark" the paths already taken and a way to get hints on solving the puzzles. It's just way too much thrown at you all at once.

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