Customer Reviews

Carmen Sandiego Word Detective

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This program is not made for Windows XP, and will not work on a Windows XP system.

This is yet another classic by the Carmen Sandiego line. This was the best of them all, and your kids will not stop playing it! It is more educational that I first expected, and has everything from grammar to spelling.
A good buy for your money. Sorry, a great buy for your money!

Carmen Sandiego Word Detective is a fun game for my 1st Grader. It has a fun 'techy' interface that is appealing while still having fun graphics and an adventuresome plot.

It did not install on my Windows Vista machine, but unlike another reviewer, it installed just fine on my Windows XP home machine.

Fun for the kids, fun for the adults to engage them in reading.

What more can I say? My kids (7yr old boy) and (9yr old girl) love it and I'm happy they're busy learning while being entertained.

Basically, I never found this interesting, while I very much enjoyed other Carmen Sandiego games. The challenges were like nothing I'd learned in English classes, and villains popping up with the scary music pressured me (and not in a good way). There was no reason for me to play it more than once or twice. However, a family friend's son, Issac, found it entertaining when he was about twelve and played it non-stop while his family was over. I didn't see much of it, but I noticed a mad scientist-type villain that looked like a vampire. The scary music with him creeping up and then laughing manically could have given me nightmares. Only buy it if you have an American education and work well under pressure.

This sounds like a great program, but like many people I can't try it because the system requirements are WRONG in the description. The description says it's for Win95/98/Me/XP or Vista. The case says: Windows 98, Me; 66 MHz or faster processor; 16 MB RAM; 25 MB free hard disk space. For Mac it lists Mac OS 7.5.1-9.2; 100 MHz or faster processor; 16 MB RAM free; minimum 20 MB hard disk space.

Never open the package until you have checked whether the system requirements web description matches the case, because unfortunately most of the time it does not in my experience.

Thhis prgm is one of the all time BEST for educational and fun, I was sooo excited to find it again that I didNot look at the system specs., It also will not run on Windows Vista, actually it gets hung up on the quicktime load - wonder if there's a fix-it out there ??

This game came free with my families very first computer and I was ADDICTED to this game. It was challenging enough that I wanted to play it often and keep trying, but easy enough to keep the game fun. I remember it being very educational, but not so much that it was boring. The challenges were very fun, and on higher difficulty levels could be even challenging to me now as a college student! I would definitely recommend this game!

Purchased for grandchildren. Genre typical of Broderbund and Carmen products.It appears to hold their interest and is a different approach to other boring language programs.

I haven't been able to try it yet, since it doesn't work on Mac OS X. Will have to try it on PC XP system and see how it is. It claims to be Mac compatible, but it isn't.