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Learning at Its Best!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 11, 2008
Author: Amazon User

My students cannot wait to come to the Reading Center and play this game. They have learned so much about the different customs and traditions of other cultures as well as traveling around the world. A terrific learning tool!

Sounds good

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: May 31, 2007
Author: Amazon User

We homeschool our children and are always looking for new and exciting ways to make a boring subject interesting. Teaching history though games sounded like a good idea, but my son thought it was boring. We ended up teaching history by reading historical fiction books. It proved to be a much better way.

Love this game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: October 20, 2006
Author: Amazon User

My brother & I use to play this game when I was in middle school. Now,looking back, as a junior, who took already took AP World History in freshman year and Geometry in middle school, I can say this game helps A LOT! Although the cases are made for children to play and have fun, you'd be surprised at how much this game teaches. In AP World it helped to have a background on the various historical events in this game. It was a foundation to build up upon and it (the game) motivated me (in some of the cases I liked) to learn more about the actually historical events.
In geometry, at the begining of the year, we learned about the Egyptians and the Greeks and their contributions to Geometry. Surprisingly, this game covers most of what my teacher covered, and more.
Great help for school!
Definately recomend this game for any and everyone who is thinking about it.

Am I too old for this game?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: April 17, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I played this game when I was 7 and I got everything...is there something wrong with me? I love this game. Just when I was 7 it took me about a month to finish and now I'm 15. I reordered the game and finished it in 6 hours. You could say I was bored.
And I have a Windows XP and it worked fine for my computer. ^_^

An Amazing Chase through Time!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 9
Date: March 17, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Prepare for a feast before your eyes! This game is rare indeed,
I recommend you get it, when your in need...

Case. 1 Egypt (Recover the Book of The Dead)
Case. 2 Rome (Turn on the waterworks or naked people will wait)
Case. 3 Finland (Find Leif Erikkson's Crew)
Case. 4 Japan (Bring the moon rays to Murasaki's room
Case. 5 England (Defeat the Saxons and be William's errand boy)
Case. 6 China (Find Marco Polo)
Case. 7 Desert (Get salt for Mansa Musa)
Case. 8 Inca (Get food supply for the dying Inca empire)
Case. 9 Germany (Find Johann Gutenburg's missing bible)

Part II

Case. 10 China (Help Columbus get back to Spain)
Case. 11 The Renaissance (Put a smile on the Mona Lisa's face)
Case. 12 The Bazaar (Make a Sun Festival Hat for King ???)
Case. 13 England (Rehearse play to make them fit in a missing
wall part)
Case. 14 U.S. (Help make The Declaration of Independence)
Case. 15 L.S. Territory (Survive the wild to help Lewis & Clark)
Case. 16 Vienna (Recite Beethoven's play)
Case. 17 U.S.A. (Help Gagarin get into space)
Case. 18 C.T.T. (Chase Carmen Sandiego)

Get it while you can!

Fun and suprisingly educational

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: October 02, 2005
Author: Amazon User

My sister and I played this game all through middle school and found it highly entertaining. I remember feeling like some of the information was being crammed down my throat, but, even as a college student, it is still giving me some basic familiarity with obscure topics (such as Japanese asthetics.)

Carmen Sandiego Review

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: May 18, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This program was fun and hard to solve. It was a wonderful learning experiance for me, I was far ahead in history and social studies because Carmen was hiding in some very interesting places. I recommend this program to kids 8-13 because its hard to understand in some ways but really fun when you get it. Oh, I'm off to find Carmen with Shakespere, bye!

Won't work on Win 2000 or Win XP

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 22 / 25
Date: February 09, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Usually programs that work on Win 98 will work on Win XP and Win 2000. Not this one. Just be aware of this.

four stars

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: December 02, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This is a fun game that takes you to some dates throughout history. Carmen Sandiego is trying to rewrite history, and you must stop her.
This is a good game, but I gave it four stars because it's short game. Afteryou beat a level, you can go back to those levels later. A few of the levels are pretty hard, but most are easy.

A learning adventure filled with excitement

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 9 / 9
Date: April 02, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Carmen has done it again, packing learning into an exciting adventure. Carmen has taken her villains back in time to steal priceless historical treasures.
The mission, travel to the past, solve any historical problems that Carmen's crew cause, and catch the villains.
The adventure will have you wrapping mummies in ancient Egypt, repairing pipes in Rome, traveling with Columbus and much more.
Recommended age level 9+ but we found it easy enough for a six year old with minimal help.

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