Uru: Ages Beyond Myst Review

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Uru: Ages Beyond Myst Review

	Manufacturer: Ubisoft Find all Ubisoft reviews ESRB Rating: Everyone Platform(s): Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows XP Release Date: November 11, 2003 Average Rating: 3 out of 5 Stars	Retail Price: ~~$29.99~~ Online Price: $14.62 A discount of $15.37! * Price is subject to change.
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.

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

User Submitted Uru: Ages Beyond Myst Reviews

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Date: 2008-03-27
URU: Ages Beyond Myst
I am an avid player of the myst and riven, and all adventure games. I must say that URU is a game that has unbelieveable sights and sounds. The graphics and details in the scenes are phanominal. You have so much to see in not just the details of the game but also for instance, there's the building that rotates and as you wait to align the walk ways the background scene is just beautiful with the mountain and falls and valleys that you see as your revolving around with the building. The puzzles are great to try and you can also interact with things like shooting at stuff from a distance. But with all these game be aware that you should save your game as often as you can when going through puzzles and places that you don't want to repeat. I love this game and have played it 4 times and each time is just as rewarding as the first. So give it a try. I think its one of the best of the series.

Date: 2008-01-21
even better now that it's gone LIVE!
I enjoyed this game. . .and have played it more hours than any other! (I play many games) and Love all the Myst series games. The community that has developed with Uru is awesome, and they make it a must try. The stand alone game inspired many forum based games and puzzles that the fans created for each other, we played together daily for years even before the game was picked up by Gametap and offered Live! Now we can litterally play together, online and we have regular new content added, that you can't get anywhere else.
I highly urge you to try it. I too was not fond of the avatar idea, at first, but now I would miss her if she were gone! ;)

Date: 2007-05-18
Uru: Ages Beyond Myst
Fun to play if into the Myst games. Great fun for all to have. Enjoy, The Larghe's

Date: 2006-12-24
Mind-Blowing Natural Extension to the Myst Series
Although this has now been supplanted by Myst Online: Uru Live, this is an excellent experience. The Smithsonian should keep a copy of this in their art collection. Incredibly fun, and a mind-blowing extension to the Myst series. Although the boxed version of this game dates back to 2003, please make sure you have a fairly decent video card in order to fully experience the graphics, and make sure you download the correct drivers for that card (which may be older than the ones you're currently using on your machine).

Date: 2006-11-27
BEWARE...Only works with two types of graphic cards
I was only able to get past the opening scene and then the game kept crashing. Unfortunately I didn't realize that there are only two types of graphic cards work this game. The system requirements were for the following graphic cards: 32 MB NVIDIA GeForce 1, 2, 3, 4, or FX; ATI Radeon 7000-9800 OR BETTER. Since my laptop is brand new I assumed my graphics card (Intel chipset) was considered the "or better'!

Oh well, I was really looking forward to playing Uru since I've played all the other Myst games. I don't understand why UBI did this. The other games were just fine.

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