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Product Description
Create the perfect garden! Comb the rooms of a gorgeous mansion for hidden items and restore a once stunning garden to its former glory. Choose from tons of garden accessories to customize the garden to your taste. Become part of the city's community and compete in the "Best Garden" contest as your amusing and witty butler, Austin, is there to assist. Become an outdoor decor pro in this cutting hedge game!Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #12 in Digital Video Games
- Brand: Playrix Entertainment
- Model: 1577
- Released on: 2009-11-12
- Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows XP
- Format: Download
Features
- Over 1000 Cool Items To Find.
- Compete In The Best Garden Contest.
- Become An Outdoor Decor Pro.
- Bonus Garden Screensaver.
Customer Reviews
Original and good replay value
I usually don't buy hidden
objects games because of their lack of replay value to me, but I really
love this one.
The presentation is lovely. The story is that you
inherited of your grandfather's house, and you're in charge of restoring
its garden, and eventually to take part in a garderner's club contest.
You will be visiting all of the house's rooms (15 in all) to sell the
items hidden within them.
The game can be played timed or
untimed. There are 3 different types of hints you can use: standard (and
you'll get bonus money if you don't use those), as well as camera and
thermometer hints that are hidden within the rooms (cameras show a flash
of where the objects are located, while thermometers change your cursor
from cold to hot as you move it across the scene).
You can serve
up to 5 customers at once, for a total of 20 customers (objects) to
find per room. The customers' faces appear on the left of the screen
along with the name of the object they want to buy and how much they'll
pay for it. Once you find the object, a pile of coins is displayed in
place of that customer -- it's up to you to click the money to
immediately get another customer, or wait until you finish serving one
of the other customers. This way, you can control how many customers
you're handling at once -- if they have to wait too long (I mean, really
too long -- and this is independant of whether you selected timed or
untimed mode) the amount of money they offer you for the object will
slowly decrease.
Sometimes, customers will ask you to find a set
of 2, 3 or 4 similar objects (for instances, 3 pairs of gloves). If you
manage to click on all items in the set in quick succession, you'll get a
bonus amount of money.
Every so often, you'll also receive
letters from special customers asking you to sell them a set of 20
objects (for instance 20 coffee makers) hidden in a single room. Other
times, you'll have to find a set of 20 objects hidden among several
different rooms on top of the 20 standard hidden objects.
Also,
on top of the objects you'll have to search for customers, a certain
amount of loose coins are hidden within each scene. Don't miss them if
you want the extra money.
What is really nice is that, not only
does the list of objects you have to find changes everytime (that's the
norm for HOGs), but also most of the items within the room (and the
coins) will be moved around! So if you found that umbrella next to the
chair last time, it might be a different size and in a completely
different place next time! This truly add enormous replay value to the
game.
Another thing that adds replay value is the beautiful
garden. Between each room search, you'll be brought back to your garden
where you can use the money you earned to buy items. For each item,
you'll be able to choose between 3 different styles which you can mix
and match anyway you want. You can even change your mind later on (for a
small fee) and pick another item or style, so you can potentially
continue playing forever as you change your garden around.
I
really have nothing bad to say about this game except, maybe, that' I'd
want more of it. It would be great to have even more rooms, or an even
bigger garden to customize. I'd definitely pay for an expansion to this
game, or a version 2 maybe.
I've played GardenScapes on 3
different computers -- on XP and Vista 32-bit, and currently playing it
on Windows 7 64-bit. Works fine on all 3 operating systems. No problem
at all.
Delightful! Unforgettable! More,
please!
Ratqueen's review is SPOT ON
and very thorough, and I would only add that this visually attractive,
addictive game also comes with a free screensaver that follows the
progress of your garden, with all of the birds, butterflies, sounds and
even periodic rain (all customizable in the game menu.)
The music
in the different rooms is REALLY good, and I find myself jamming to
some of the songs in my head from time-to-time.
A Perfect game of
this type and a very cool, personalized screensaver. What more can you
ask for?...
More of the same, please!
Funnist Game Ever!
I could sit and play this
game for months, constantly. So far, I've been playing it after work for
about 2 weeks straight. Once you finish the garden, you can continue to
play the different rooms becuz the hidden objects move their positions
in the room so it's never the same game twice, even if you've been to
that same room 3 times in the same hour. I also like to sit and look at
the garden, it's very peaceful. This game also has an additional
pleasantry in that every once in a while it asks you to find "20
hairdryers" or "25 books" in the scene and you need to search for only
those items. My mother told me about this game, and I'm so glad she did.
It is really, really worth the $6.99. HP Games and AOL are actually
charging $19.99 for this same game.
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