Volume 1 Adventure Collection
by Dreamcatcher Interactive
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Video Game Reviews of Volume 1 Adventure Collection
Customer Review: Lotsa game for a good price.
Summary: 3 Stars
These are 5 decent adventure games at a good price. I would suggest the potential purchaser read the reviews of the individual games to get reviews for each since they have all been sold individually. All are third person adventure or fantasy games except for Return To Mysterious Island which is first person.
Of the 5, Dead Reefs was the most troublesome to install and operate. The keyboard operability was clumsy and took getting use to. More significantly the game mysteriously locks up my computer and turns my screen a greyish white at signicant points along the game play including the initial startup. Thanks to some game bloggers, I discovered that pressing the spacebar 1 to 3 times unlocked the freeze and continued the game. Do this slowly until the game frees up. You might lose an animation or two, but they are usually not that important anyway.
Like some adventure game players, I had already purchased and played 2 of the games individually, but even so, the unused price made it worthwhile to buy this collection for the remaining 3 games. Good deal with a few minor problems.
Customer Review: Pretty good collection.. only one stinker!
Summary: 4 Stars
This is actually a pretty decent collection of adventure games and will be great for anyone wanting to pick up some enjoyable games they can play on their own or with family, etc.
First up, the games all worked fine on my laptop with a Core duo and nvidia 7400 go graphics (dead reefs included). No patches were required for any of the games.
In my opinion, the best game here is Return to the Mysterious Island (which is great for playing with 9-12yr old family members!); it's a beautiful game, with interesting puzzles. One thing though is it's an inventory based game (meaning you end up with a billion items in your inventory that you have to piece together). Some of the items that you merge are pretty bizarre and I had to get a couple of hints. Very enjoyable though.
Of the other games, the next best is probably Tunguska, which is easy to play and engaging -- the only downer being the voiceovers which are pretty low-grade. Keepsake is fun but the puzzles are tough and it has a downbeat ending, Nibiru is okay but has aged more than the others. It's also based on the talk to person A five times before going to place B, then take item C and now D works type of adventure, which was not to my taste. Dead Reefs is the stinker with a horrible keyboard based movement and a terrible 3rd person camera that made me feel motion sick (the only game that ever has). Still, there has to be one letdown, right?
One point to note is the game comes on a single DVD with no printed instructions at all -- they are all on the DVD as PDF files which you must print yourself.
Overall, a good collection -- I paid $15 for mine, which I think is a steal.
Customer Review: Adventure Collection
Summary: 4 Stars
I thoroughly enjoyed 4 of the games, and the only complaint I had with Dead Reefs was that it was entirely keyboard-operated - VERY tedious. I was constantly referring to the paper where I wrote down the 14 keyboard commands needed to play that game. Dead Reefs wouldn't run initially, but after searching the internet I found the answer - when it opens to a blank screen, hit your space bar or ESC key and the game should come up OK. After fooling with the annoying keyboard controls for an hour, I gave up on the game altogether. The other 4 games worked well on my older XP system with 1GB RAM and a Radeon 9550 AGP video card. I did download patches for Tunguska and Keepsake before I played them. Overall, I loved the 4 games I played and am well satisfied with the value of the game collection!Customer Review: Dead Reefs
Summary: 1 Stars
I am very disappointed from that game because it does not work! Even it is only one out of the five games which are on the two discs, it is very disappointing, that it does not work with my NVIDIA video boards. I have two computers and both have a NVIDIA board. It is the most popular video board at present time. Whatever computer I look at online, it has a NVIDIA board. Btw I contacted technical support and got that information from them. They offered me a replacement for that game, but I would have to send it in for that. Now I am not goona send in my disks which have four other games on it. (Adventure Collection). Repeated complaints remained unanswered! It is a shame.Customer Review: Overall great game
Summary: 4 Stars
This was a great way to play five games at a great price. Unfortunately "Dead Reefs" never played on my computer, on either the administrator setting of my own setting. I was able to play "Keepsake" and "Mysterious Island" on my own sign-in without any problems. I did have top run "Tunguska" on the administrator-id in order to play it. I had already played "Nibiru" on its own, so I have no real feedback on how it played with the anniversary set. However, all the games, with exception to "Dead Reefs" were great because they were challenging enough, unlike "Mist" or "Rhem," which can be overly challenging for just a fun game.
If it's something fun to do in your spare time, this is a great price for quality games.