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Not bad, but not great

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: January 03, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Nice scenery and characterization, puzzles are OK but not amazing. Worth picking up if you can find it cheap ;-)

A beautiful game, but falls a bit short on some levels

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 23, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Echo was a fairly interesting game that is also a learning experience. It melds a lot of real world anthropology and archaelogical fact with the game, which is inserted as you discover the world of Echo to solve the many puzzles.

While beautifully done, the game is rather short. You may not notice though, because some of the puzzles are so non-intuitively hard you'll be stuck for hours. I prefer logical and intuitive puzzles that are part of a story, but Myst lovers will enjoy the frustrating puzzles of Echo.

And why do pre-historic people speak so eloquently with proper English? I'mn fairly certain that there was greater difficulty communicating amongst tribes in real life, and it would have been interesting if that was evident in the puzzles and interaction with NPCs.

Also, the UI was a little confusing, but you do get used to it. For instance, in one part you light a fire by clicking right on it, buty later to light a torch you have to click above the fire, which was counter intuitive. The 3D interface was nice, you go from scene to scene like in Myst but each scene is explored in 3D, so you can really interact naturally. The inventory UI was kind of annoying as items would jump around to different slots and you have to constantly search for them erratically. While you can examine inventory items you are never really required to, and in order to combine items you must find strategically placed working stones.

It was a fun way to burn spare time and I enjoyed the academic portion of it, but this game isn't at the top of my list. I recommend it if you need something to occupy your time between other releases like the forthcoming Dreamfall.

Beautiful scenery, decent puzzles in most cases

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: February 24, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The graphics were excellent. Very appealing visually. The story line was fascinating and fun. I particularly like the authentic historical asides and details of many of the puzzles. The game was a little on the short side which is the only reason I didn't give it a 5. I'd like to see a longer sequel in the future.

Unpleasantly Surprised

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 24, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I am a serious gamer of many genres and have played and enjoyed other Dreamcatcher games. This one was just an exercise in frustration. The movement was clumsy, choppy and bulky -- I have 2gig ram and an AMD 3200 with an Nvidea 7300, so it is not my computer.
This game was so clumsy in fact, that I began to feel the real puzzle was just figuring out how to move around. The graphics were simply OK. The story was terribly uninteresting and quite frankily I quit playing because I just did not care anymore. Bottom line: I should have known it was too good to be true for under 20$

Secrets Remain Lost in this Cavern!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 7
Date: March 03, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Despite the beautiful graphics of this game, I felt I had to give it an overall low rating. I am not a novice at the role-playing, adventure-type games, but I found the majority of the puzzles required to advance too difficult to get through without the assistance of a walk-through. Most were not the least bit intuitive and the on-screen prompts were not consistent between puzzles (sometimes you clicked when the cursors were pointing "to" the object, sometimes when the cursor was midway "over" the object - there was no way of knowing which would work except by excruciating trial and error.) I also thought the ending was very anticlimactic and disappointing. I wish now I had not wasted the money on this game.

Boring.....

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 10
Date: December 04, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game was SO boring! The puzzles were stupid. The setting was interesting and could be a learning experience but the game itself was just SO bad and very short. Certainly not worth the money.

If you like games such as Black Mirror, Myst, Atlantis etc you will be very disappointed with this game.

Stuck in a cave again.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 5
Date: April 30, 2007
Author: Amazon User

A game that has as your first exciting task rubbing two sticks together to make fire is not even worthy of a cub-scout. I'm really getting tired with games that leave you in one spot without even the slightest hint of what you should next to move the game along. Of course one figures it out eventually, but what a waste of time!

The science and history trivia were not interesting, and not informative of the game itself.

Echo:-(

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 5
Date: May 14, 2007
Author: Amazon User

doesn't exactly grab your interest plus even with the cheat I am stuck something isn't working....

Very enjoyable

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: September 27, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I play adventure games more because I like poking around and exploring, less for puzzle solving. I really enjoyed this game. It was different from most adventure games, and I really felt immersed in the prehistoric setting. The people were rather stiff and were the only things that were poorly executed IMHO. But, that didn't really detract from the enjoyability of the game. The puzzles were logical, fun and easy enough that I didn't get frustrated. Overall, I loved this game and recommend it highly.

great game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: October 02, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I had alot of fun playing this game. It was challenging but not too hard. Great graphics, beautiful scenery. The only thing I would change is to make it longer, I wanted to keep on playing. If anyone knows of other games like this one please let me know.

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