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- Average Rating:4.3
- Helpful Votes:1,197
- Reviews Submitted:80
- First Review:March 29, 2012
- Most Recent Review:July 1, 2016
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A mysterious package begins an epic duel of minds between FBI agent Nicole Bonnet and a ruthless serial killer!
Overall rating
5
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5
18 of 18 found this review helpful
One Of The Most Exciting Games BIG FISH has ever offered!
PostedOctober 27, 2012
Sergeij
fromWilliamsport, PA 17701
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Large File
Fun Factor
5
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
5
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5
Level of Challenge
5
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5
Storyline
5
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5
This brilliant effort by City Interactive is a real gray matter flattener!
The game has Nicole Bonnet, an FBI Investigator Par Excellence, on the trail of a brutal serial killer who likes to leave calling cards in the form of playing cards, and who is quite ingenious in his methodology. His traps and puzzles are among the most sophisticated I have encountered among the large file games, and the thrills and chills stay with you right up to the surprise ending.
From walking on poles across alligator-infested swamp waters in Louisiana, to bombs going off in New York City, to rigged up lighthouses in Maine, and a partner she can't trust, Nicole must keep going amid peril after peril to find this fiendish killer. There are puzzles of the most intricate nature in the police laboratory, where even one iota of evidence may not be overlooked, and there are further puzzlements that will almost fry your brain! So, if you want non-stop thrills and chills as you solve terrible murders, this game is for YOU!
Really, this has to be one of the most exciting games I have ever played anywhere! THANX, BIG FISH!
I recommend this game!
Sylvie is an archaeologist living an average life until the famous Oliver Leroux, disappears! Travel to Malta and find him!
Overall rating
5
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5
19 of 19 found this review helpful
A Marvelous Game With A Plausible And Suspenseful Plot!
PostedOctober 22, 2012
Sergeij
fromWilliamsport, PA 17701
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Large File
Fun Factor
5
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
5
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5
Level of Challenge
5
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5
Storyline
5
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5
This awesome game is a Polish endeavor, and it was done beautifully. My hat is off to City Interactive and to the CEO, Marek Tyminski, for bringing us a game that is so well knit and spellbinding!
The graphics are gorgeous, as is the heroine of the story, Sylvie Leroux, whose uncle has gone missing after he delved into some antiquities he should have kept his nose out of.
Sylvie searches for him on Malta, in Gozo, in Istanbul, Turkey, at the Vatican in Rome, and in a lost temple in Gozo.
The cutscenes are among the very best I have ever seen, and the plot is extremely well developed. The puzzles are few, but tricky, as Sylvie follows her nose, which leads her to an earth-shattereing discovery!
If you like antiquities, archaeology, and mysteries, you're going to love this game!
Also, check out the other great game featuring Sylvie Leroux:
"Chronicles of Mystery: The Tree of Life." It's even more exciting!
"Chronicles of Mystery: The Tree of Life." It's even more exciting!
Thanks, BIG FISH!
I recommend this game!
It's important to know when to investigate and when to seek shelter in Nancy Drew: The Trail of the Twister!
Overall rating
3
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5
6 of 8 found this review helpful
Not a Very Good Showing for HerInteractive!
PostedOctober 20, 2012
Sergeij
fromWilliamsport, PA 17701
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Large File
Fun Factor
3
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
5
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5
Level of Challenge
5
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5
Storyline
2
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5
I have played 21 Nancy Drew Games and have only criticized 2. This will be the third.
First, Nancy is hardly the sleuth she was in the "Great Games," viz., "The Phantom of Venice," "The Curse of Blackmoor Manor," "The Haunting of Castle Malloy," "Ransom of the Seven Ships," and on and on.
No. she was nothing more than a "factotum," required to catch countless mice, fix garden equipment, a transmission, storm tracking equipment, wiring problems, transmission towers (as if she could!), and drive a car all over the place FOREVER!. There was really NO TIME for her to investigate. There was no REAL PLOT, anyway. Just a bunch of kids running around trying to track tornadoes.
The puzzles and quizzes were good, but cannot justify such a poorly offered game, which, by the way, was the predecessor of another very bad Drew effort, in my opinion: "Shadow at the Water's Edge."
It is my fervent hope that the developers WAKE UP and go back to making games that made this series illustious, such as "The Phantom of Venice."
This game was a big disappointment.
I don't recommend this game.
The Missing: A Search and Rescue Mystery
A group of college students have gone missing from a remote island in the Pacific Ocean. You are called in to rescue them, but nothing is as it seems.
Overall rating
5
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5
26 of 28 found this review helpful
Sulus Games Has Produced A Winner!
PostedOctober 16, 2012
Sergeij
fromWilliamsport, PA 17701
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Large File
Fun Factor
5
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
5
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5
Level of Challenge
4
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5
Storyline
5
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5
Sulus Games and its capable Producer, Alexey Ushnisky, have come up with a game that is both compelling and graphically great!
You, the rescuer, must fly to a strange and mysterious island in the Pacific Ocean to save a professor and four students from the clutches of something or "someone" very evil!
You must gather 56 power sticks, missing none, and solve many puzzles before you can save the party of five!
I must say that this game held my interest, even though I usually play only large file games. A game such as this one could even get me to play more HOGS!
The 2D-3D graphics were top-notch and the storyline was logical and clear.
Congratulations, Sulus, on a job well done, and KUDOS, BIG FISH GAMES, for giving us this treasure!
I recommend this game!
Help Detective Bridget Brightstone crack the case and reveal the great mystery that lies behind high walls of the Bellevue Hotel!
Overall rating
3
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5
6 of 7 found this review helpful
A Lame Plot With No Voices And No Real Challenge.
PostedOctober 13, 2012
Sergeij
fromWilliamsport, PA 17701
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Large File
Fun Factor
5
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
4
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5
Level of Challenge
3
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5
Storyline
2
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5
This games is of Croatian origin. Cateia Studios is located in Reijeka, Croatia, and continually offers games of this type, with no voices and unbelievable plots.
The story's heroine, Bridget ("Biggi"# Brightstone is sent to investigate eerie happenings at a chateau near the village of Saint Georges de Longepierre, France, and she's an NYPD detective!!
The story starts as an investigation by two clashing detectives #the other is a French sleuth#, and ends up with what looks like part "Ghost Whisperer" and part "The Exorcist!" I have never played such an implausible game in my life!
Fantasy is good, to a degree, but Cateia just stepped over the sanity line on this one.
I recommend this game with reservations.
Help a young doctor, Tifet, stop a deadly disease from spreading through all of Heliopolis in this intense Adventure game!
Overall rating
5
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5
23 of 26 found this review helpful
An Early Kheops Effort Pays Off Very Well!
PostedOctober 10, 2012
Sergeij
fromWilliamsport, PA 17701
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Large File
Fun Factor
4
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
3
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5
Level of Challenge
4
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5
Storyline
5
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5
This game is an early effort by the Paris-Based Kheops Studio and its capable director, Benoit Hozjan.
And though the graphics during game-play were not the best, the cutscenes were quite good.
The plot features a voluptuous beauty, one Nefermaat, known as Tifet, throughout the game. She is a physician who is trying to save her city from a terrible disease which is due to "crooked" politics and coverup, much like "Watergate."
In any case, the plot was a strong and compelling one, and was quite true to form and factual. Kheops even used the Department of Antiquities of the famous Louvre, in Paris, and a bonified Doctor of Egyptology, Isabella Franco.
The voices were exceptionally good, with Emma Deschandol playing Tifet.
My only complaint was the unwieldy and wild mouse control.
This was an excellent game, and I applaud Kheops for another great game!
I recommend this game!
Help Nostradamus`s daughter lift a deadly curse from a powerful family.
Overall rating
5
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5
15 of 15 found this review helpful
The Extraordinary Brilliance Of This Game Is Unsurpassed!
PostedOctober 9, 2012
Sergeij
fromWilliamsport, PA 17701
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Large File
Fun Factor
5
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
5
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5
Level of Challenge
5
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5
Storyline
5
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5
Kheops has done it once again! They've delivered a piece of work that is not only incredible, but graphically great, with a storyline that is beautiful, well thought out, and historically correct. Catherine De Medici, of the famous Medici family, was, indeed, a contemporary of Nostradamus. She is quite prominent within the context of this game, but it is a young girl in disguise, one Madeleine, the daughter of Nostradamus, who steals the show -- even from Nostradamus, himself!
The game has excellent length, and the 3D graphics, provided by MC2, of Paris, France, are "eye candy" of the highest order.
I've yet to play any game that has such a series of unique puzzles, as this one does, and the timed puzzle group at the end gives the player all he can handle.
Of course, this is a mature-minded game, unlike the Drew Series, which sometimes becomes quite adolescent, if only because so many young people like to play the games. That has to be. Nonetheless, Kheops has given us some of the greatest games ever offerred here, and I'll put them up against anything else that BIG FISH has in its vast inventory.
And the game is open-ended. That is, the ending is so constructed that it begs a sequel, and I can't wait until it arrives!
BRAVO KHEOPS! WONDERFUL WORK, BIG FISH GAMES!
I recommend this game!
Help Valdo find The Secrets of Da Vinci by exploring the mysterious Cloux Manor in this fun Large File Adventure game!
Overall rating
5
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5
40 of 43 found this review helpful
A Masterpiece of Multi-Studio Collaboration!
PostedOctober 4, 2012
Sergeij
fromWilliamsport, PA 17701
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Large File
Fun Factor
5
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
5
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5
Level of Challenge
5
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5
Storyline
5
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5
The great Kheops Studio, the developer of this game, in conjunction with Nobilis Games, who did the marketing and publishing, and cooperating also with Mzone Studios (3D rendering), Electrogames (distribution), and Totem Studio (design) has come up with another winner!
"The Secrets of Da Vinci" was the "most mature" BIG FISH game I have ever played. It features a "conscience meter" that permits Valdo, the Hero of the saga, to do either good or evil acts, which could take him in different directions. And so, there are different avenues the gamer may pursue to continue through, and end the game.
Yes, and there is even romance! Valdo has a sort of "fling" with the beautiful Babou, who lives at the huge manor, which is at the center of the entire game.
Some of the puzzles are diabolical in their difficulty, and the game is replete with secret passages, underground tunnels, villains, and so many of Da Vinci's glorious creations, including a flying machine, a functional cannon, a sophisticated telescope, the super-famous "Mona Lisa," and much more. Alchemy plays a large role, too.
I can't say enough about this highly unusual game, and I thank Kheops and the other wonderful studios who put this marvelous adventure together. What an ending!
BRAVO, BIG FISH GAMES!
I recommend this game!
Help Professor Hunt search the Spanish city of Toledo! Discover the secrets behind a mysterious sword in this fun Adventure game!
Overall rating
5
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5
6 of 7 found this review helpful
A Worthy Addition to what is now the "AGON TRINITY!"
PostedSeptember 27, 2012
Sergeij
fromWilliamsport, PA 17701
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Large File
Fun Factor
4
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
5
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5
Level of Challenge
5
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5
Storyline
5
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5
So far, there are 3 installments in the marvelous AGON Series, with another addition promised very soon -- even within a few months -- or so I understand.
This installment was essentially a detective story which took Professor Samuel Hunt from the beautiful shops, haciendas and palacios of Toledo, Spain, to its sewers and tunnels below, arriving at an exciting maze that leads to dark secrets so needed by the Professor.
There was copious dialogue throughout, which, I think, was necessary to the plot. Much of the story revolved around the amount of information the player could extract from the many conversations, so, no one should complain about it.
I must take this opportunity to congratulate the developers, Private Moon Studios, for their greatly reverential treatment of religion and religious things. something that some others trivialize and cheapen. This was important to me.
And so, I, too, await, with baited breath, the next installment in this fantastic and formidable series.
I gave just four stars to the "Fun Factor" if only because the use of the mouse and trying to navigate were often frustrating. Otherwise: A game of the highest order!
I recommend this game!
Travel From Lapland to Madagascar in this fun Adventure game! Help Professor Samuel Hunt get rid of an ancient curse!
Overall rating
5
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5
25 of 25 found this review helpful
This Blockbuster Deserves Even More Than 5 Stars!
PostedSeptember 23, 2012
Sergeij
fromWilliamsport, PA 17701
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Large File
Fun Factor
5
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
5
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5
Level of Challenge
5
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5
Storyline
5
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5
If I could give this second installment in the "AGON" series 10 STARS, I would do it!
This was pulse-pounding adventure at its zenith, with many of the scenes in Lapland very reminiscent of "Syberia," and with a jungle that is the most challenging I've ever encountered, both AUDIBLY as well as INTUITIVELY.
The snow and strange people in Lapland,in stark contrast with the steamy jungles of Madagascar, which feature incredible puzzles and challenges, and with the series of secret underground caves and very difficult puzzles, make this game one of the BEST EVER!
And I must take exception to what Lao_Zi wrote about the first game and the Professor's "irritating voice."
The first episode was NOT -- I repeat NOT -- disappointing. It was an excitingly short, and necassry portent of things to come in the second installment: "AGON: From Lapland to Madagascar." And furthermore, the Professor's voice was anything but unpleasant and "irritating."
I like this game as much as the "Syberia series," "Voyage," "The Tree of Life," "Dracula Origins," the "Art of Murder Series", "The Scorpio Ritual," "Cleopatra: A Queen's Destiny," "Egypt III: The Fate of Ramses," and the "Pahelika Series, along with anything in the "Drew" series. THIS is one of the "Great Ones!"
I recommend this game!