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1 of 4 customers found the following review helpful:
Cool, 2006-04-19
I think this is a very fun game. It used to be my favorite in the series. Now realMyst is my favorite, so I will rate this game a four star. I like the puzzles you have to solve. It's realy interesting.
1 of 5 customers found the following review helpful:
 Amazing graphic, frustrating game play, 2006-01-21
Myst 3 is, I think, the hardest and most frustrating game I have seen in my life. NO REACTION is the main aspect of the game. The game does not give any clue about the function of elements. The pseudo-3D gaming interface is confusing, and the graphics are not adapted for a LCD screen. Many places appear dark, for example in Anateria. LCD screens are more and more widely-used, and many people, including me, have no room for a CRT. When everything is dark, this shows that the game does not exploit all the color space offered by the monitor, which is annoyingly bad.
Many times I try to move somewhere I think I could could, nothing happens. I sometimes have to click many times at many places to be able to move.
In continuity with Myst and Riven, there are plenty of almost unreadable hand-written journals that bring almost nothing to help solving puzzles. I do not care at all about the mental process Atrus went through to design Releishan. All I want to know is how to find back this damned linking book, and for this, I have to go through three Ages, Anateria, Voltaic and Edana.
Music and sound are good but totally helpless for finding clues. In many cases, for example the vibrating ring in Anateria, sound is omnidirectional while directed sound could allow for finding the source of the noise. The designer of the game may have assumed that most people have no 3D-capable sound card. However, there is more people equipped with 3D sound cards than people with 3D graphic cards, and nowadays, any sound card can do DirectSound3D.
It seems that the game hardly depends on a third-party hint book. This hint book should be included with the game, at least in PdF version.
In conclusion, great graphics, great music, great sound, but very bad and annoying game play. I am considering about giving up before ending the game.
5 of 6 customers found the following review helpful:
 Its not the same..., 2005-10-25
I loved playing Myst and Riven, and when i was playing those games it was all i thought about, and i was obsessed untill i beat them. This game did not give me the same experience, and i think ive figured out why. What made Myst and Riven so great was the magnitude of the puzzles, the fact that the clues were scattered all over the islands and you had to piece them together and suddenly theyd click together in your mind in that moment that makes the game worth playing for us. Myst Exile did not have these kinds of puzzles, instead theyve moved to a more, "do this puzzle and when your finished do this one" the puzzles are very self contained even to the point where each age has about 3 puzzles to beat then your done and you never need to go back. It lacks the cohesiveness of the past games and because of this you cant get into it like you could those. Other reviews here have said that the game "lost the magic" and i think this puts it very well. On the other hand, the game is not necessarily bad, and i did enjoy playing it most of the time. Its not a bad game, but if your going into it expecting the quality youve come to expect from the series, then you are going to be dissapointed.
1 of 2 customers found the following review helpful:
 So real you're almost there., 2005-10-09
I've had Myst III for almost 4 years. Yes, it's taken me that long to finish it. But it sure is a wonderful game. In terms of graphics, Riven was a simple step up from Myst. But Myst III adds a whole new level of realism to the franchise.
The main new feature is that you can look anywhere you want in any direction withing the photo-realistic worlds when before you could only look at a limited amount of certain things. These worlds are empty but beautiful to look at and have an eerie, ghostly atmosphere to them. The graphics are so convincing that the roller-coaster ride in the middle of the game will make you feel like you're really there. Not only do the graphics stand out but sound effects pan across the sound-field when you spin around and wind whistles between the rocks.
The story involves the maniacal sons of Atrus (that would be Sirrus and Achenar) continuing to wreak havoc through-out the ages. They have destroyed a world known as Narayan and left sole-survivor in exile on the island of J'Nanin. This man is Saavedro (Brad Dourif), who ultimately blames Atrus for his sons going off the deep end.
Atrus (played by Rand Miller as always) calls upon you to go to J'Nanin and find Saavedro, who has stolen Atrus new age Raleeshan. Saavedro traps you into going through many different worlds, unlocking secrets, finding clues and seeing for yourself what Sirrus and Achenar did to Narayan. Each world has a different look from the last but still retains that spooky feeling no matter if your in a swamp, caverns, beach or mountaintop.
But still, the most impressive thing about Myst III is Jack Wall's brilliant score, which is simultaneously haunting, beautiful, dark and Gothic. He seamlessly blends magical with choral and gives us a highly thematic score with surpasses that of most big-budget movies. Definitely the best score a video-game has ever known. And that's a pretty big statement.
I got the Limited Collector's Edition of this game which comes with the score CD (now very hard to find and very expensive) a 'making of' CD, the Prima Official Strategy Guide and lots of other inserts. The game (at the time of this certain publishing) was spread over 4 discs and it became very annoying switching between them all. I minor quibble though.
Overall, I highly recommend Myst III, it's not just a game, it's a journey.
2 of 2 customers found the following review helpful:
great, 2005-09-14
It's a great game with great puzzles. But use a CD-Rom not a CD
writter or it could seriously damage your computer.
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