Myst 3 - Exile (PC)

Newest Review: ... a woman standing behind you holding a baby. This demonstrates the first innovation in Myst III. Up until now you were limited ... more

... to fixed viewpoints of your surroundings, now you can swing the camera around for a full 360 degree panoramic view. These views are static, but a clever touch is that movies of real people are mapped onto the backgrounds seamlessly. So that the woman (who turns out to be the wife of Altrus, a character you first met in Myst I) moves around and talks to you even as you re-align the camera to point at her. Soon you are drawn in to a plot revolving around a stalwart of the Myst series - linking books. A linking book ta...more

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by - written on 20/08/03
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a few disappointed - Advantages: cheap (but I know why...), the world looks huge - Disadvantages: the game is not well finished, graphisms are poor, incrustated cinematic characters

Not a rail gun in sight (477 words)
by - written on 30/04/02 (Very useful, 133 readings)
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What do people have against the Myst series? I'll re-phrase that: what to so-called PC gaming experts have against the Myst Series? Ok, so they're not fast and furious. They don't have any rail guns or plasma cannons. They don't have the latest whizz-bang 3D graphics. All the things that conventional wisdom - i.e. the gaming press - want in a good PC game is lacking in the Myst series. But they do have one think in bucket loads: atmosphere. The latest instalment in the Myst series is no exception. You start looking out at a stark landscape of mountains. A voice calls to you and you turn to see a woman standing behind you ... Read the complete review