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THIS IS NOT A BOXED SET

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: September 18, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I read the first ten or twenty reviews on here and they all talk about the previous Myst games and how this is all in one boxed set, IT'S NOT THIS IS ONE FULL COMPLETELY NEW GAME IF YOU WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT IT GO TO http://www.urulive.ubi.com/ and read all of the information about it. (one other thing the five stars is not what it is but what i HOPE it will be)

BEWARE...Only works with two types of graphic cards

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: November 27, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I was only able to get past the opening scene and then the game kept crashing. Unfortunately I didn't realize that there are only two types of graphic cards work this game. The system requirements were for the following graphic cards: 32 MB NVIDIA GeForce 1, 2, 3, 4, or FX; ATI Radeon 7000-9800 OR BETTER. Since my laptop is brand new I assumed my graphics card (Intel chipset) was considered the "or better'!

Oh well, I was really looking forward to playing Uru since I've played all the other Myst games. I don't understand why UBI did this. The other games were just fine.

I loved it!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 8
Date: January 30, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I loved this game. Graphics, story, gameplay - everything! I didn't have any control issues and followed the story just fine. I've played all the games and have read all the books and that certainly helped. Very Myst like to me. I have an Athlon 2100xp with an ATI 9600XT video and it works like a charm.

To: Feeling Ripped Off

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 8
Date: December 06, 2003
Author: Amazon User

You say that you were ripped off by Amazon and Ubi while this isn't true at all. It says right there in the system requirments "3-D graphics video card with 32 MB RAM, and hardware transformation and lighting capability". Your Integrated Intel Video card does not have 32MB of ram and also does not support T&L. Don't blame Amazon and Ubi because of your own ignorance.

An adventure gamer's dream

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 17
Date: April 01, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Uru is my top game to look forward to this year. After seeing tons of screenshots and learning as much as I can about it, Uru looks like it will become yet another classic. The Myst series has always been popular for its challenging puzzles and incredible graphics. I'm sure Uru will a great addition to the Myst saga. I can't wait to see what D'ni looks like.

Uru - Game leaves out important details

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 11
Date: January 01, 2004
Author: Amazon User

The game Uru is disappointing. The software can only be installed on 2 specific video cards. Unfortunately the product specifications are ambiguous. They state the names of the 2 cards or "higher". In fact, higher is not an option since technical support at UBI software state the product will only run on the 2 specific cards named. This is unheard of in today's gaming environment. UBI should clearly and largely state this information on the front of the box and in bold lettering in the specifications.

Very Disappointed

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: March 25, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Running with AMD Athlon XP 2500+, Radeon 9600, and a gig of RAM, so no technical or performance problems.

The game itself is the problem. The user interface is terrible. Character movement is clumsy and imprecise.

The game itself seems pointless, an aglomeration of nothing in particular for no discernible reason. As many have remarked, probably the base URU was originally intended as a small set of training levels for online play, which at the present does not look like it is ever going to happen.

Running around the desert at the beginning for no reason at all with nothing much to do or see was the most fun I had with the game; and that was not much fun. It was all downhill from there. There is no coherence to the game experience that I could discern. The puzzles are just stuck in, they do not feel like part of the story. Indeed the "story," is really just a shell of a building without an interior; again the story itself was something that would be expected to develop in the online play.

Overall, I found the atmosphere, the music, the ambience, and the art to be rather depressing. I would like to say that there are some good moments that make up for it all, but if there are I never encountered them.

Reviews tend to be either love it or hate it when it comes to URU. I would highly recommend trying the demo first before buying the game.

The end of a legend ?

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: January 22, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I give it three stars because the game, in itself, is decent: but as a Myst-game it's (maybe) one star! What a disappointment, after the all-time masterpiece Myst and the excellent, if frustratingly difficult, Riven (i don't count Exile, which was not created by Cyan - but yes, Exile, too, was better than Uru). The graphics are first-rate, it's true, but "first-rate" as they can be in a real time 3d game, not comparable to the photorealistic quality of Riven. But I'm not complaining about that: actually, I like the freedom of movement given by the 3d engine. The problem is, in a very few words: this game utterly lacks the style, the "flair", the charm of Myst and Riven. Gone are the soft, magic, "misty" atmospheres of Myst; gone is the bright light, the "sea- and-rocks-and-sun" , the wonderful surrealistic quality of Riven: in Uru there is a strange dim light, a sort of yellowish twilight world which I found cold and unsatysfying, gloomy, almost depressing. Yes, the ages, the strange contraptions and devices, the locales, are tastefully designed, as ever, but all you do is wandering around not knowing precisely what to do: and why to do it, after all, is not that interesting, because, simply, the game has no plot. Never for a moment you can think you're immersed in a narrative. Once you have caught (maybe luckily, given the deeply unengaging quality of the game) the "style" of the puzzles (which, I must admit, are well conceived), Uru reveals itself as a very short game: I finished it in six days, and, believe me, the replaying factor is near to zero. And of course many have noticed the awkard controls: the designer of Uru were strangely unable to adopt the usual control scheme of recent FPS or third person action/adventure (mouse for rotating, keys on the left side for moving and strafing): yes, the controls are mappable, and you can use the mouse for moving and rotating, but only pressing continuosly the left button. This becomes rapidly tiring, and very likely you'll end using only the keyboard, with a resulting utter lack of precision in the movements. Adding that the controls are very sluggish and your avatar seems a ten-ton truck, you'll find yourself "pushing hard" on the damned keys trying to drag on that lazy fatball: and, believe me, the simple action of aligning the avatar to an object to manipulate it becomes a hell of a chore. I repeat: excellent graphics, the worlds are well designed (and, oh, the music is very good - it gives the only, few, haunting moments of the whole game). But, in the end, a cold, empty, boring experience, a huge letdown in term of "Myst-quality"! I passed weeks and weeks on Myst; I "fighted" with Riven: but what magic experiences! And now, the sad end of a legend! Of course, maybe, the online experience will be totally different: i can't judge about that.

Consumers be Warned

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 15
Date: December 06, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I read the review "feel ripped off" I completly understand this person's anger , this happend to me with the Anniversary dvd edition of Myst/ (Riven) does not work and is a know problem with some video cards which Ubisoft knows about, while on the site i checked to see if my card would be compatiable with URU hence as the reviewer wrote it would not support it , i have Intel intergrated chipset also. I think all stores or online sites should post this info as soon as it becomes available, too many burned consumers out there.

Bravo!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: May 28, 2004
Author: Amazon User

After reading some of the reviews, one thing is very obvious... people are totally missing the point of this game.

Uru is an amazing story, one that you get to learn as you explore an even more amazing world. The point is not to "win" or "beat the game" - it's to find out more about the D'ni people, and most importantly - where they went. ( Maybe, that's why there are so many notebooks laying around?? Just maybe? ) I played Myst (though never played Riven nor Exile )and I found Uru far more user-friendly then the first Myst released.

I personally, LOVE this game - and am biting my nails just waiting for the next expansion. It truly is a story to live - one that will keep you guessing around every corner.

Yes, you have to use your noggin, but again - that's the point. This is not an "I win" game - it's an evolving world that you get to play a part in. A world done beautifully and one that you will find yourself happily lost in for days.

Two thumbs up, in my opinion.

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