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.

User Submitted Uru: Ages Beyond Myst Reviews (cont...)

The past games had problems that could have been solved by using clues spread throughout the world. But I find with Uru that you just have to play guess and check a lot which I have never found to be the way when it came to Myst.

Now I am usually a patient person but the loading time between worlds is unbelievable. This game requires a lot of linking I have found and some of the problems are timed (I am thinking of the Paths of the Shell expansion pack on this comment), so you really start panicking when your computer takes a good 5 minutes before something actually shows up. And then to actually get the player moving without being all jolty, it takes another minute to load. Sigh. Very disheartening.

I have found that with Uru and even Exile the quality has come down. Riven seems to be their own real achievement currently but hopefully Myst IV will redeem them... if only I could get it to load on my computer. Sigh. These games have it in for me and my computer, I tell you.

Date: 2004-11-27
SO disappointed...
I was a bit suspicious of this game at first. Wasn't the Myst Trilogy supposed to stop with three games? I was rightfully cautious. It's been about a year since I've had this game, and I finally figured out that I don't play it because it is no fun! I had the problems with system requirements too, but after updating my graphics driver, things finally started working. I had been stuck in the desert you get dumped into first because whenever I approached a certain journey cloth, the game crashed. The driver update solved that. However, once I could go to any of the worlds in the game, I noticed how bad the game was.

My first complaint is that MYST DOES NOT NEED AVATARS! I enjoyed being able to click and proceed to the next screen. I DON'T NEED TO WATCH SOMEONE WALK AROUND. If I wanted to do that, I would be a stalker! Like other reviewers have said, the slideshow was so much better.

Second, the controls of the other games were SO MUCH EASIER! Clicking, moving mouse, clicking again. There is elegance in simplicity. None of this that is thrown into Uru. If it can't be done by clicking the mouse and using your head (Ubisoft - please don't take that literally - I've heard the horror stories of kicking rocks), it shouldn't be in a Myst game.

Third, I am not interested in a Myst online game. Games like Myst, Riven, and Exile do not belong in an online environment. I admit that I haven't tried Uru online, but I have no desire to do so. If the game comes out, it should be GOOD ENOUGH to make me want to play it online.

In short, this game is not well developed. I prefer DOS games to this! It overworks my computer and it is NO FUN TO PLAY. Cyan and Ubisoft, please do not try anything like this again. Myst fans, stick with Myst, Riven, and Exile, the real Myst trilogy.

Date: 2004-11-10
URU: Too much hype
This age of myst was one the really dissappointed me. Upon getting the game, it wouldnt play on my system because of the video card, so i had to buy a new card to play it. But the game itself is really boring, you spend all your time searching every inch of the screen to find things. All the other myst series had it alot easier to see when you had something to look at or click on, but not this game. If you are not in the exact right spot, you will miss something that you need to continue the game. I never finished playing URU because you are not sure what you are looking for, also you almost need a PHd to solve a few of the puzzles. This game was a big waste of my money, and i hope that they go back to the drawing board on the next installment they make. Get back to some of the old myst, newer isnt always better!

Date: 2004-10-07
WOW
Uru is definately worth your time. I have been a fan of the Myst series, but this tops them all thus far. I can't wait to get my hands on Myst IV.