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2 of 3 customers found the following review helpful:
 Runs well on old Macs too!!, 2006-05-28
I'm on a 2003 iBook G3 with 800mHz, which is relatively below the standards this game uses. After a memory leak or two, I decided it wouldn't work and considered selling, but then I downloaded the patch and BOOM! Couldn't have been more perfect! However, it goes without saying that high-performance machines with nice video cards will get much smoother and better-looking gameplay than my machine.
The game was great! Music and sound and visual came together to make something I'm really going to remember. I loved it that much!
While I still can't figure out just WHO is supposed to do these puzzles without a walkthrough or strategy guide, I found a handful of them pretty fun and actually meaningful.
The plot evolves so well as you visit each world. You can decide in what order you do this, but you'll need the ending clues of both Haven and Spire before you can complete the puzzles in Serenia, so I suggest you work on those first.
Characters aren't extremely deep, but at least their motivations are clear and present, and you can expect that the minor characters will always be very interesting(Peter Gabriel plays an awesome part as a spirit guide). Acting isn't top-notch either, but the characters all convey their emotions, again, clearly. Don't expect to sympathize with them though, unless you are just that sensitive.
In a game where you're exploring various worlds that you know nothing about entering into them, you almost expect to die or be hurt somehow. That's what I love about Adventure games like these. They assure that you get to the end as long as you put forth the will and the determination to finish it.
Speaking of endings, not the best finale, but certainly a cliffhanger for Sirrus and Yeesha.
This was my first foray into a heralded Myst game. I was attracted at first to the three-dimensional element of it, and then by all the peripheral effects, and then the story just really took me in and I felt like such a part of it that I didn't want to leave Serenia ever. I'm glad I made this purchase, and for only $7 as the running used price, so is my wallet!
Best game ever, 2006-05-16
This game is the best game i have ever played!!!!!!!!!!
Everything is great, but are some curser probloms.
Overall everything is GREAT!
4 of 4 customers found the following review helpful:
Absolutely worth it: the best game I've ever played, 2006-04-24
So fair enough, a lot of people will tell you that this game's requirements are hard to meet. They are. For today's PC, anything bought more than a few years back is going to need some work before it can play Myst IV. The question is how much this game will mean to you (for me, as a Myst fan through and through, the answer was 'everything') and therefore how forgiving you are going to be of that. The reason Myst's ingenious creators made it so complex is that this is exactly what Myst's audience want out of it. Most people play this game to escape from reality, to immerse themselves in a world that looks and feels so real, they can believe it to be real. If you're normally one for the first-person-shooter, you're probably not going to have as much patience or enjoyment with this game unless you have a secret soft spot for puzzles, breathtaking sights and gorgeously memorable storylines. But if you ARE the type of person who enjoys that kind of thing, then getting this game will be all in all the best purchase you will ever make, and every necessary upgrade will be worth it. Because this is, quite simply, the best game of its genre.
So on to the game. For fans of the original Myst game (who will certainly have upgraded their PC at least once since its release), this will be an interesting wrap-up to the story of that instalment. You have to re-assess every character regardless of what you previously thought of them, because everyone has surprising secrets. For those newcoming or who weren't old enough to play that game at its release point (myself included), I have to reaffirm that this really is the best one. Exile and Riven are great, but the effort put into this one, both in terms of storyline, gameplay and visual effects, really towers over its comrades. It follows the story of the family of Atrus, who has enlisted your help yet again in order to ascertain whether or not his avaricious sons, Sirrus and Achenar, who have been imprisoned on other worlds since the first game, should be freed. Before you are able to travel with him to their Ages, an emergency calls him away, and soon enough an explosion triggers in his home, and his daughter Yeesha disappears. As you travel through both Sirrus and Achenar's prison ages you discover what has occupied the minds of each during the long years of his imprisonment, and at the end of the game, must make a series of decisions based on the evidence you have gathered: is either redeemable? What happened to Yeesha, and why?
A fantastic game. The story is gripping both for new players and old, given that much of the available reading material within the game can serve to introduce new players to this amazing story, as well as bringing the player close to the truth. Obviously given the high graphics card requirement, the visuals are stunning and you will find yourself spending much game-time simply admiring the detailed, and highly interactive, view. Although once you know the story it is difficult to forget and thus the game does not have quite the same impact when played again, the Ages remain as beautiful and most of the puzzles are complex enough to require re-solving every time. For myself, I just love re-playing it for the sake of its incredible immersion. The best game in the best series of its genre.
 Raising the bar on Gorgeous, 2006-04-20
Another complete visual triumph for this team, raising the bar on what a first person pre rendered game is capable of..The focusing of your point of view through your mouse angle was a brilliant addition to the tired world of mouse based point and click gameplay..All in all this is the real last version of myst before they completely packed up the old ways and headed for 3d freedom-land, and with that kind of left the uniqely magical worlds that were painstakingly hand crafted for unparralled immersion into a virtual fantasy behind...Adventure gaming would not be the same..
Wonderful game, 2006-03-30
Out of the entire 'Myst' franchise, 'Myst IV: Revelations' is, as by far, the best of the series. The story line was a wonderful closure for the story of Atrus and his sons.
The Ages are visually stunning and mind bending, the acting well played, and the puzzles craftier than ever. Besides its visual and craftiness, 'Revelations' also helps delve into the characters of Atrus' sons, who so far in the series have been depicted in the most negative light, which gives the player who is a true fan of the series an interesting look on the characters we have grown to love.
My one major complaint lies in the fact is that some of the puzzles (mainly when you get into the brother's prison Ages) are insanely difficult, and may require a guide to help solve them. Even with this minor setback, 'Myst IV' is truly a gem of a game.
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