Alida

by Got Game

Product Features

• Interactive adventure game
• Someone is lost on the strange and fantastical island of Alida
• Solve puzzles and figure out the mystery
• Imaginative 3D environment and original musical score
• For 1 player

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0001BY6NK
• Product Dimensions: 10.6 x 1.6 x 5.5 inches ; 10.2 ounces
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: May 16, 2004
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #40,174 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Platform: Mac

From the Manufacturer

Alida is a point and click interactive graphical adventure game. The story centers around four young men in the band, Alida that attained phenomenal success with their first CD release. Loads of money coupled with wild imagination resulted in construction of "Alida" - the theme park. It's an unusual place - a giant guitar 330 meters long!

But these guys didn't stop there - the guitar can actually be played (assisted by machinery) and the internal workings of the guitar can be accessed and manipulated (machine heads, switch, pots etc..)

As Alida was nearing completion things got complicated, the band’s popularity was waning and money stopped coming in. Distrust set in. Each of the band members claimed different areas of Alida for themselves where they devised weird and elaborate systems to protect their wealth. They retracted from each other finally leaving Alida uninhabited. Fifteen years later one of the guys is missing on Alida...

Five years in the making, the Alida world will captivate you with meticulous graphics, unique locations, intriguing puzzles, bizarre transportation machines, ornate objects, electronic imagery, tactile contraptions, massive constructions, animated natural elements and original music score.

Product Description

Alida takes you into the world of torn egos, shattered dreams and stolen money. Explore the world of a rock band's dreams, on that sadly never came to be -- it falls on you to find out why.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Yearning for another Myst? Buy Alida!, July 26, 2004

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Tiptoe Tippy "Tiptoe Tippy" (Andover, MA United States) - See all my reviews

= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Alida (Mac) (CD-ROM)

Alida is the next best thing to the Myst series. If you love Myst, Riven, and Myst III Exile and are (like me) soooo disappointed that Ubisoft has decided not to release the new versions on MAC, then buy Alida.

Some people complain about lack of graceful writing and sophisticated story line - I think Alida has improved on a few things about the Myst series:

1. I think Alida has just the right level of written clues. In Myst, I find the pages and pages of diaries you have to read to find a few clues mind-numbing.
2. Speed and performance of the game are great - absolutely no technical problems, hang ups, or need to download patches!
3. There is no tedious maze to nagigate in Alida.

Support independents who write such great games for the MAC! Alida is a tremendous accomplishment.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars few choices on Mac - too bad this one isn't better, June 28, 2004

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Robert T. Nicholson (Sunnyvale, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Alida (Mac) (CD-ROM)

If you enjoy Myst-type games, Alida is not bad.

The artwork is good (though surprisingly, the game requires you to set yoour display to 800x600!) There are lots of well-drawn and intriguing gadgets to play with. The soundtrack is good too, though I would have expected a lot better in a game based on a rock band. The puzzles are interesting, about the same level of difficulty as the Myst trilogy, though they feel a little stale. Some of the puzzles require annoying back and forth travelling to solve (but that was true of the Myst trilogy as well).

Unfortunately, the writing is poor. Unlike the beautiful language found in the Myst worlds, Alida's intro, dialog, and journal entries seem like they were written by a 10th grader.

The game scenario is also full of holes. No, I take that back... it's just plain dumb: a billion-dollar rock-band theme park filled with narrow stone tunnels, archaic, rusting gadgets, single-person transportation devices? Where you just happen to stumble across levitation and teleportation devices, based on unknown "quantum principles?"

OK, enough complaining. The game is worth buying and playing, especially if you own a Mac (where your choices are limited). The art is good, the music is good, the puzzles are good, and the game is generally fun. Just don't expect to be blown away.

0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars wrong merchandise, February 26, 2011

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Friedrich Hirsch (Henrietta, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:1.0 out of 5 stars 

Amazon Verified Purchase

This review is from: Alida (Mac) (CD-ROM)

I cannot give you a review because the order was misunderstood and I got my money back. The sender did not understand was the software was all about and I got just one disk instead of the complete four. If there would be a NEW set available, I would probably buy it, but there was none offered.

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