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Uru: Ages Beyond Myst Review
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Manufacturer: Ubisoft
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ESRB Rating: Everyone
Platform(s): Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows XP
Release Date: November 11, 2003
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Features:- Experience a new freedom of movement, a first for the Myst franchise: Explore each unique age in real-time 3D, moving your character effortlessly through the world without pointing and clicking.
- Create a realistic character: Choosing from a wide variety of facial and clothing features, you will be able to create a male or female avatar that you will use to explore the world. The range of character options allows you to appear the way you look, or the way you want to look.
- Explore the mysterious and graphically intense world of Uru. Uru's work-of-art style graphics will immerse and captivate you like never before.
- Follow an epic storyline: At the request of Yeesha, the eccentric daughter of Atrus, you'll journey through a variety of different ages, and discover the lost civilization of the D'ni people. As the story unfolds, you'll be drawn deeper into the D'ni civilization.
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Explore vast worlds! Solve scores ofmind-bending puzzles!Product InformationFrom Cyan Worlds the makers of Myst and Riven Uru: Ages Beyond Myst is thenext chapter of the Myst franchise and the most immersive and ambitious Mystexperience ever created. The single-player game will be bigger better and moreinnovative than any of the previous Myst adventures. Players can move at theirown pace spending hours discovering visually stunning real-time 3D worldssolving a large variety of mind-challenging puzzles and following an epicstoryline. Players can continue to discover new areas of D'ni by connecting toUru Live the online service of Uru. There players will be part of anever-expanding world that brings more areas to explore and more mysteries tosolve.The story of the D'ni civilization: It began when theyestablished their underground empire on Earth some 10000 years ago. Whileliving beneath the Earth's surface the D'ni practiced what they called the"Art of Writing" which enabled them to create links to incrediblealternate worlds of fantastic variety called "Ages" to which theycould travel through "Linking Books." The D'ni people thrivedfor thousands of years but later met with a great catastrophe that all butended their civilization. Their vast cavern was left uninhabited and theirLinking Books and Ages seemed lost forever. Then in the late 1980s a fewhumans from the surface discovered that cavern. One of these humans was EliasZandi. He devoted the rest of his life to exploring and eventually restoringthat ancient city in the D'ni cavern preparing to one day reveal theirdiscovery to those who were suddenly feeling irresistibly drawn to the cavern. When he passed away in 1996 his legacy was divided between a foundation that heset up and his only son Jeff Zandi. The foundation came to be known as the DRC(D'ni Restoration Council). As their name implies they took on the task ofphysically restoring the ruin
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