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 | Nancy Drew: Ghost Dogs of Moon Lake |
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Product Description
In Nancy Drew: Ghost Dogs of Moon Lake, you play the famous girl detective as you solve a frightening new mystery!Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #4057 in Video Games
- Color: Ghost Dogs of Moon Lake
- Brand: Her Interactive
- Released on: 2002-11-16
- ESRB Rating: Everyone
- Platforms: Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 95
- Format: CD-ROM
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: .22 pounds
Features
- When Nancy gets a frantic note from a friend about horrible ghost dogs with glowing eyes and hideous howls, she sets off to get to the bottom of it!
- As Nancy, you'll interview locals and hunt for clues as you track down the ghost dogs
- Gorgeous 3D game worlds and full 360-degree game interaction bring the town of Moon Lake alive
- Have the dogs really come back from the grave to protect an old secret, or is there something more to this? Find out, as the famous teenage detective!
Editorial Reviews
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Seventh in
the series. Players assume the identity of teenage super-sleuth Nancy
Drew as she rushes to help a friend tormented by a pack of phantom
hounds. Players must pick up the cold trail left by a sinister character
from long ago in this intriguing 3-D interactive mystery as they solve
cryptic puzzles, search through shadowy woods and creepy old houses,
interview a cast of suspicious characters, and dodge danger to sniff out
the truth behind local legends. Players can get in-game assistance by
phoning Nancy's friends Ned, Bess and George, as well as Nancy's
longtime sleuthing partners, The Hardy Boys. They can also explore 200
hot spots that give players more clues, and use the in-game Journal Mode
to track their progress. If players need more tips, they can visit one
of the popular online message boards found at www.herinteractive.com to
ask for and share information with other Nancy Drew fans. As with all
the Nancy Drew titles, Ghost Dogs features two levels of difficulty:
Junior and Senior Detective.
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Product Description
A friend's frantic note sends teenage
super-sleuth Nancy Drew on the trail of a mysterious pack of dogs, whose
glowing eyes and mournful howls threaten to chase her and her friend
away forever. Locals say the ghostly pack are risen from the grave to
protect the secrets of their master, Mike Malone, who lies buried next
to his beloved dogs. Long dead, Malone, a notorious gangster, once lived
in the lakeside cabin recently purchased by Nancy's friend. Now it's up
to players, as Nancy Drew, to dig up clues and find a flesh-and-blood
answer to the haunting howls in the night.
To solve the case,
Nancy ventures into the deep, dark woods that surround Moon Lake. Like a
search dog hot on a scent, she hunts down clues. Along the way Nancy
meets a variety of characters--all with something to hide--and searches
through creepy old houses. Dodge danger, flush out secrets, and solve
cryptic puzzles. Interview a cast of suspicious characters and adventure
through more than 30 activities to sniff out the truth behind the Ghost
Dogs of Moon Lake.
Customer Reviews
Just finished playing
This is the first of the ND
series that I've played without having to look up cheats a hundred
times. Unlike the previous adventures, there were several places (not
just one) where Nancy was caught in a "second chance" situation - I
think that makes it more exciting. I played the Senior Detective and
only got really stuck twice - otherwise the hints were pretty helpful.
This probably isn't the game for the very experienced gamer, but if you
have played and enjoyed any previous ND games, you will not be
disappointed here. It's low on violence and high on creative thinking. I
wish there were more female oriented adventure games like this series.
Have fun with it!
Nancy's Best Game Yet
I just finished this game and
it was awesome. The game is suspensful and filled with great puzzels
and hidden rooms. You'll love exploring beautiful woods, meeting
interesting characters, hearing the calm sounds of the forest and
digging up pieces of Moon Lake's colorful history. There's lots of
updates, including the ability for Nancy to "examine" certain things in
her inventory. Also, Nancy now has a PDA that helps you keep track of
notes. Also, I thought the background music was very well done. If
you've played and enjoyed Nancy Drew games in the past, you'll love this
one!
a puzzle-adventure perfect for
young sleuths
The seventh in the series,
these games are relatively inexpensive yet provide hours of gameplay. In
them, Nancy Drew, the college-aged female detective, explores mysteries
and finds solutions to various puzzles.
You can see the various
improvements in this latest entry. The graphics are much smoother, and
as you turn around in a given area the 'snapshot' quality is more of a
flow. It's still not a fully immersive environment - in essence you go
"to" a spot and then can turn left or right through set images of the
room. You can point to a "hot spot" in the room to approach an item or
examine it. Still, in a way this makes it easier for younger detectives
to know what to do. If you can't click on something, it's not important.
There's
no violence or blood, although I do have to comment that the ghost dogs
are rather scary! I have had younger teenage girls refuse to play some
of the games I've lent them because they were too scary after a few
hours. This one might fall into that category if you have a skittish
nature. The dogs don't actually attack you, but their jumping on the
doors, howling and rattling the house can be quite frightning.
The
game uses very logical puzzles that actually teach you things. You want
to test water from a well, but first you have to learn the real
technique for priming a pump and do it. You need to use a motorboat, but
the pistons aren't in the proper cycle positions. Anyone who uses a
boat would see this by looking at the engine, and they helpfully include
a diagram to show you (i.e. Nancy) how to fix this before the engine
will work. Notes at the ranger station warn you about Hantavirus, a real
danger if you're cleaning areas where mice live.
There are other
puzzles - identifying birds, finding planks to get over rotten
floorboards and so on - that fit in as well. In general the game does an
admirable job of keeping the game very realistic-feeling, like you're
really at this Pennsylvanian lake, amongst the locals there, exploring
their world.
On the downside, much of the game involves pony-trail
sorts of handoffs. You know you need a spark plug. You might think it
would be lying around nearby or that one would be in the house. But
instead, searching all over creation finds none. Instead, you have to go
to sleep, wake up at night, chat with someone who it so happens has
one, go back to sleep again, and then in the morning use it. It can get
extremely frustrating when at many times in the game you know what you
*need* but just have to figure out how the game designers think you
should *get* it.
Still, many times this means that your gameplay
time is stretched out as you wander around, explore, chat with people,
and enjoy the world. It's not a game for people who want to race through
to the end to have 'beaten it'. If you poke at a walkthrough site, you
can probably do so in an hour or two. Instead, it's a game that, for a
relatively low price, lets you wander through a well realized world,
exercise those "little grey cells" in your brain, and really become
knowledgeable about a number of intersting subjects. Give yourself time
to have fun with this one!
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