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Myst 10th Anniversary Edition - discover the grandeur contained in a strange new world. Unlock the power & legends behind each of the Ages of Myst, as you live the storylines of the classic game series. Your eyes will be dazzled and your brain will be puzzled by the mysteries you pursue here. This collection includes Myst Masterpiece, Riven, and Myst III: Exile. Special digital guide with multiple levels of help, making the Myst games more accessible Now fully compatible with Windows XP, or Mac OSX (Myst III not compatible with Mac)Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #2360 in Video Games
- Brand: UBI Soft
- Released on: 2003-11-11
- ESRB Rating: Everyone
- Platforms: Mac OS 9 and below, Windows 98, Windows XP
Features
- Collection includes Myst Masterpiece, Riven, and Myst III: Exile
- Explore new ages, dramatic storylines, and incredible sights and sounds
- Engineered to be fully compatible with Windows XP
- Exclusive interview with Rand Miller
- Footage from the making of Myst III: Exile and Riven
Editorial Reviews
From the Manufacturer
Myst 10th Anniversary DVD Edition includes three award-winning
products: Myst Masterpiece, Riven, and Myst III: Exile.
Alone on a mysterious island, you set out to explore its grandeur and
mystery. In Myst a chilling tale of intrigue and injustice,
defying all boundaries of space and time, is being told. Summon your
wits and imagination about you. Every scrap of paper and ambient sound
may provide the vital clues that allow hidden secrets to unravel before
you. Each discovery you make and each puzzle you solve will lead you one
step closer to reversing a wrong that has gone unchecked for ages.
Features:
- DigitalGuide with multiple levels of help makes Myst more accessible than ever
- Brilliant 24-bit color graphics enhance an already beautiful world
- Digitally remastered music for a heightened sense of mystery and intrigue
- New 16-bit sound effects enhance the sense of realism like never before
- 4,000 breathtaking images
- Three hours of astonishing animation
- Unprecedented graphic depth and detail
- Two hours of alluring music and sound effects
- Immersive, multitrack sound
- Evolution of the popular Myst series, supports optional 3-D hardware
- Free-look movement system allows you to pan 360 degrees at any location
- Five entirely new ages to explore
- Storyline reveals a new character
- Solve puzzles to uncover the mystery of this new adversary
Customer Reviews
3 great games for less than the price of one.
First, I want to tell you that these games (all of them) are
absolutely WinXP compatible. I've run them all on three different XP
computers - including two laptops and none of them had any trouble.
However you MUST set them to the proper compatibility mode before trying
to run them. Get instructions from the ubisoft website or windows help
for compatibility mode, it's not difficult. (be sure you set
compatibility for the main program file, not just a shortcut)
Second, these aren't action games - they are puzzles and very
difficult ones, if you get bored easily you won't like them. Very few
people will win one of them in just one session, even if you have the
time and patience to sit at the computer for a very long time. With
hints they can be solved rather quickly, but that takes most of the fun
out of them. Also they have almost no replay value as the puzzles aren't
at all challenging after the first time you solve them.
The scenes are beautiful and strange, but most of the animation is
slow and choppy at best, not bad enough to be frustrating - but you will
definitely notice it. (quicktime version 6.5.2, the most current at
time of this review, will run them without problems).
The Myst series is not your run-of-the-mill computer game. It's
more like a set of graphic novels in which you have to solve puzzles in
order to discover the next piece of the story. You can't change the
story or the outcome in any way, you just help it move along.
If you enjoy a mental challenge, and complex storylines without
graphic gore or violence and very little action, you might find these
games quite enjoyable. Even if you think you don't like computer games
you might find that you like these - they're very different.
I certainly like them, and I intend to buy Myst IV as well.
Finally, a few tips - but no spoilers.
Look at everything carefully, don't get in a hurry.
Check every direction in every scene.
Read everything.
Click on every button, lever, and light.
Look behind every door, from both directions.
Many of the puzzles involve providing power to a device before it
will work, sometimes you have to complete an extremly complex series of
actions before a device you encountered much earlier in the game will
work.
There are a few places where you can actually lose completely if you
do the wrong thing so don't forget to save, and then try everything,
sometimes what seems wrong is actually right. Sounds are important too.
Breaking things isn't always bad.
Sometimes puzzles seem complete when they're not (did you miss a
final button, switch or lever?)
And lastly - Be patient, take a break and let it rest for a while if
you're stuck.
Only for Mac OS 9 & OS 10 (you have to
have both on your computer)
I purchased this product thinking that I could run the entire 3 CD
set on my Mac OS 10 operating system. Unfortunately I had to buy it to
find out that only Myst III (Exile) works w/OS 10. The other two CDs
(Myst I - Masterpiece Edition & Myst II - Riven), will only work
w/OS 9. I don't have OS 9 on my computer and it's no longer available.
The description section for Myst 10th Anniversary DVD Edition is
definitely lacking crucial information. It needs to say that it will
work with Mac, but only if you have OS 9 AND OS 10 installed on your
computer. This way no one else will waste their money.
This is Not a Typical Game
If you are like me -- if you are someone who really does not get
into computer games much because they rarely engage you beyond the first
couple of hours -- Myst is a very pleasant surprise. Like many people, I
am disgusted by the grotesque or mind-numbing nature of most of the
games you see for computers and in arcades. Myst is a game that I think
is attractive to readers and gamers who like more contemplative
entertainment, and (this is just a guess) it probably attracts those of
us who enjoy playing games like chess or Scrabble on a computer. This
game takes more patience, it requires you to really use your reasoning
abilities, even to get out a pad and pencil to sketch courses of action.
It is not about instant gratification (blowing away your enemy) but
rather, it is about entering a sort of fantasy world and trying to
figure out why things look and act the way they do, then acting on your
hypotheses. Each time you do uncover one of the answers (and I don't
want to give any of them away here) you are rewarded by gaining access
to a whole new realm of mysteries that is more complex than the previous
one. Along the way, the music and the images border on the edge of
mystery, and sometimes even horror. But it is an implied horror,
something you sense rather than something thrown at you, and the game
never crosses the line into tastelessness. It's one of the very few
games I have ever tried where, hours after I shut down the computer, I
got an insight into how to go about a particular strategy, and then I
wanted to get back into it and see if my idea worked. How often do video
games cause that reaction in players?
Once you have "won" the
game, there is nothing new to experience. However, it will take you a
good while to get there. If you compare this to other entertainments,
for example, going out to movies, you realize that the hours you'll
spend on the game, even if it does have an "ending," are well worth the
price. Even after "winning," it is interesting once in a while to go
back into the game just to take a look at the images again.
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