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Boring. Expected more from Cyan

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: January 22, 2004
Author: Amazon User

What a letdown. In my view the avatar or 3rd person perspect severely detract. The imagery in this game is imaginative as ever, but you see polygons and the tell tale signs of low quality 3D that ruin it time and again. It's just not enough to pointlessly explore ages. There's no drama and the drop in visual quality--in spite of some new envonmental improvements like lapping water--just make it an empty depressing experience. It feels like I've visited a favorite place but without everything that made it truly special. I can't believe I'm saying this--but the original Myst and Myst 3 are better than this (and of course Riven is WAY WAY better than this. If you need a Myst fix, skip URU and replay Riven. It's sad. So sad.

This is not UruLive!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: February 28, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is not UruLive which was the online game bassed on Uru that was decommissioned and where all the screenshots with more than one person are from. Its a whole lot better! Well, being that i've never played UruLive, I don't know what to expect. What I'm trying to say is that this is the best game that I've ever played. The puzzels are more tactile in a sense. Instead of push the righ button, its move the rocks on to the pressure plates in the right order. In this game, you don't just click to go places, but you actually go there! YOu can control a guy who you move like a normal charecter in an RPG, except this isn't an RPG. There is also an element of timing. For example, in this prison world you have to jump from one rotating building on to a pinacle and then on to another rotating building's walkway. There's also the element of running fast. In one puzzle, you have to restore power to a building by swiching the right swiches in the right order before the priming pump fully depressureizes (which is about 39 seconds). There is also those buzzles where you have to only step on a certain type of symbol and the last symbol you step on becomes an elevator. You also have to pull these levers in a certain order and the corosponding pillars raise to the exact form and a ladder drops down leading you to the next place. What I'm actually trying to say is that this is a far cry from Myst and if the people at Cyan back then saw what they've created now, they would all faint!! THis is just a great game! THats all!

Eh...well...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: December 17, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I haven't gotten through the whole game yet, but so far, it's a bust. The most fun part is being able to change your clothes...and that's it. Everything is so complicated and if you don't jump right, walk right or look at something right, it will mess the whole game up. I would recommend not buying this game just because of the fact that it's not like the first three. It makes Ubisoft look horrible.

Over the top

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 8
Date: November 26, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I cannot run this game on a fairly new and very expensive laptop computer (HP OmniBook 6100), because the video card apparently doesn't fulfill the system requirements. I'm not a gaming person, so what UBI wrote about the requirement doesn't make sense to me, and my card wasn't listed in their list of non-supported devices. It crashed anyway.

It seems that UBI has overdone it this time; apparently the super-duper 3D environment requires a super-duper graphics environment that 'normal' people like me don't have. I was a very big fan of Myst etc., and am very, very, very disappointed that I'm excluded from it from now on. I just hope I can get back my $50...

My advice: don't buy this game, unless you tried it first.

DISGRACEFUL - Make that really 0 Stars!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 10
Date: January 28, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Yes, it does give specific requirements to play this game, but who would have believed it really would be that specific! We feel we were not made suitably aware that this product was not compatible with our computer, even though we purchased a brand new one.
Yes, we have a "little Dell", but we are not into the details of why a computer is compatible or not - only that we asked for the best and were assured we would get the best!
After reading reviews for this game published on Amazon.com, as well as on others, it is obvious that this product should not even be out on the market. It is designed to draw consumers into purchasing a monthly plan in order to continue (and perhaps someday conclude) playing this game, as well as purchasing additional expensive hardware endorsed by benefiting companies.
It would be too kind to say we feel cheated by this whole experience. We spent a great deal of wasted time trying to make it work, only to be constantly disappointed the entire time we had this game. (At least we have the intro fully memorized - that is about as far as we got.)
We just love the true Myst games and want to play it for the mystery, not the hyper graphics! So be warned, you must indeed have exactly what it requires on your computer, especially the video cards.

Lacking

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: January 06, 2004
Author: Amazon User

First i,d like to say the graphics are awesome.. kudos to cyan.. but they seemed to focus solely on that.. there is not much content for the price...no replay value..seems to be more of a demo for the live version which by what i see is NO where close to being released..full of bugs and not much content as well

No joke -- I got motion sick within 5 minutes

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: February 22, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I really liked the visuals and the sounds. I wanted to experience this game, but I became motion sick within 5 minutes of play. It didn't matter whether I set it in first or third person view.

I did research and found out that it was called "simulator sickness", analogous to getting car sick but for opposite reasons. I really wish they had taken the same visual and sound concept, but stuck with the Riven or Exile style of motion.

If they would come up with a non-motion sick version, I would want to play.

I gave it a try on several different occasions, just to make sure I wasn't coming down with the flu, and the motion sickness lingered for two days each time. It was the game.

**Check the System Requirements**

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 12
Date: November 23, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Make sure you check the system requirements BEFORE you purchase this game. While Myst, Riven, and Exile will work with a Pentium II/Windows 98/etc., Uru requires Windows XP/Me/2000/98SE, 800 MHz Pentium III or AMD Athlon, 256 MB RAM, etc.

Again, MAKE SURE YOU CHECK THE SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS before YOU PURCHASE THIS GAME!! I am sure it is as great as the other Myst games; unfortunately, I won't be able to find out until I can afford to update/buy a new computer!

no no no

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 23
Date: December 17, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is not the bare minimum of what Myst should be like. Never mind the crashing, this is just no fun whatsoever. It's cold and unnecessarily mysterious. Pass on this one.

WOW

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 13
Date: October 07, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Uru is definately worth your time. I have been a fan of the Myst series, but this tops them all thus far. I can't wait to get my hands on Myst IV.

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