The Experiment

by Dreamcatcher

Product Features

• Explore every corner of the eerie dilapidated ship scouting the path.
• Unlock a powerful story revealed through vivid flashbacks and shocking plot twists.
• Guide Lea's actions while confined in the locked operations room, to determine the fate of both characters.
• Characters possess independent attitudes, notions and fears -- build trust with them to overcome human and environmental challenges.
• Employ high-tech surveillance equipment to solve ingenious puzzles - Ship intranets, 3D rotation cameras, light intensifiers, heat detectors, thermal vision and more

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000NKNB4Y
• Item Weight: 15 ounces
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: February 5, 2008
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #17,264 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

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PC gamers, get ready for the next great Experience in Action and Adventure with The Experiment.

Over sweeping cliffs and across scenic coastlines, this innovative shared adventure begins in the bowels of an old, dilapidated ship grounded ashore. Mysteriously, you find yourself in the ship’s operations room faced with a highly advanced panel of controls, surveillance monitors, and a wide array of sophisticated technology. As you scan the monitors frantically searching for answers to what this place is and why you are there, the only signs of life you have come across are a series of strange, curiously hard to identify animals, but then you see her; a woman.

Help Yourself by Helping Her
Professor Lea Nichols is a research scientist in her thirties and could be described as beautiful if the strain of her situation wasn’t so etched into her features. As hard as you try you are unable to communicate with her, but it is clear she is being held captive by someone or something and wants help. The problem is, apparently you too are being held prisoner by an unseen captor. Soon you come to realize that the only way to escape is to help one another. But how and why is it that control over both your fates seems has been placed into your hands?

Use the Tools You Have
If you can discover a way to use the few tools tools you’ve been given (the surveillance system, an Intranet and other technologies) to Watch, Communicate, Search and eventually Take Control, you may both have a chance at escape. But remember that things are not always as they appear, even in the most controlled of experiments.

Full Features:

• Unlock a powerful story revealed through vivid flashbacks and shocking plot twists.
• Each character has independent attitudes, notions, and fears requiring you to build trust with the other character and overcome human and environmental challenges.
• As Lea’s extended eyes and ears, explore every corner of the eerie ship scouting the path ahead for unseen dangers and enemies.
• Strategically employ high-tech surveillance equipment to solve ingenious puzzles including: the ship’s Intranet, full 3D rotation cameras, light intensifiers, heat detectors, thermal vision, and even cameras on remote control vehicles.

Screenshots

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System Requirements:

	Minimum Requirements:
OS:	Windows® Vista™/XP
Processor Speed:	1.5 GHz Pentium® 4, AMD® Athlon® or equivalent
RAM:	512 MB (1 GB for Vista) or more
Video:	MB Graphics Card, Supporting Vertex and Pixel Shader 1.1, Compatible with DirectX® 9.0c
Hard Disk Space:	1.4 GB of Free Space

Product Description

Over sweeping cliffs and across scenic coastlines this innovative shared adventure be gins in the bowels of an old dilapidated ship grounded ashore. Mysteriously you find yourself in the ship s operations room faced with a highly advanced panel of controls surveillance monitors and a wide array of sophisticated technology. As you watch the monitors for other signs of life you discover a woman. Unable to find a way to communicate with her directly you realize that you are her only hope. She needs your help.The problem ! is you too are being held prisoner by an unseen captor. Soon you come to realize that the only way to escape is to help one another. But who are you? Who is she? Why do you control both your fates? Is escape from this floating prison your only goal or is there a more cryptic scheme?Unlock a powerful story revealed through vivid fl ashbacks and shocking plot twists Each character has independent attitudes notions and fears requiring you to build trust w ith the other character and overcome human and environmental challenges As Lea s extended eyes and ears explore every corner of the eerie ship scouting the path ahead for unseen dangers and enemies. Strategically employ high-tech surveillance equipment to solve ingenious puzzles including : the ship s intranet full 3D rotation cameras light intensifi ers heat detectors thermal vision and even cameras on remote control vehiclesFormat: WIN 98ME2000XPVISTA Genre: ENTERTAINMENT Rating: T UPC: 625904548504 Manufacturer No: PCO54850MB

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

48 of 50 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good games... after two fists full of hair pulled out, February 26, 2008

By 

666 (Hell) - See all my reviews

= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: The Experiment (CD-ROM)

This game is definitely different than your typical collect your items, point and click adventure game. It tries to bring something new to the table. However, whether that "new" makes a good game or not, it's probably going to depend your patience level.

The game is somewhat original, has good writing, and its story is definitely mysterious enough to give you an urge of continue playing; so you can find out what this is all about (since, you don't even have a clue who the protagonist is at the beginning). There's also a lot of details to the game, I don't mean graphically (although they are pretty good), but about its characters and the technical enviroment the game takes place in; making it believable and interesting.

With all the good things said, there is one BIG problem. Which is the "new" I mentioned initially. "The Experiment" plays very differently than anything else we are use to; not just adventure games, but games in general.

First of all, Lea, the main charater you see in the game is not you (the protagonist). Your character commands her behind video cameras by utilising the enviroment around Lea. Confused? Or maybe even more interested? Yeah, that's pretty much going to decide whether you are going to like this game or not.

If you are interested behind the idea of playing almost like a voyeur, then you'll probably overlook the painful control scheme. The basic idea is that you look at Lea through the video cameras, and you tell her where to go, or what to do, by start operating on something around her; for example, the lights. As you progress in the game, you will learn more system functions in the compound that the game takes place in, therefore giving you greater control of the mechanical environment. Sounds fun? Right. Except the game makers didn't include an easy interface. There's too many controls and sub-controls, making the learning curve ridiculous. The camera angels don't help things either. You will struggle at times to choose the right view to see what Lea is doing, and where she should go next.

I know I probably wrote more about the control scheme than the actual contain within the game, but that's really what makes "The Experiment" unique. But it is an aquired taste. You will either enjoy the game due to this uniqueness, or hate it because of it.

28 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Very Different Adventure Game, February 17, 2008

By 

Michael A. Kelly "Mikekelly" (Fort Worth, Texas) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: The Experiment (CD-ROM)

Now, this what I call a different adventure game. You control the main character using cameras. Very different from what you usually do. Because it is different, I really enjoyed this game. I liked the 3rd person view from the various cameras.

The graphics used in the game are excellent and very pretty - especially the intro cut scene. The puzzles used in the game were not overly hard and matched the story line.

The best adventure released from TAC in quite a while and I hope TAC releases more games of this quality in the future.

Well worth playing by anyone looking for a good adventure game that is a little different.

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Cool sophisticated but with a few minor flaws, March 23, 2008

By 

R. L. Howe "scientist technocrat - machine o... (Haltwhistle, UK) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: The Experiment (CD-ROM)

Cool and so clever in many ways, but with a few flaws.
The Good. - Very clever interface, deeply immersive interesting interactive world. Nice realistic feel. Quite good deep puzzles. The science ship makes a cool interesting environment.
The Bad. Can be frustrating. Still mostly not that difficult. Puzzles could be deeper still. A few minor bugs - get caught in doors, one or two crashes (in same place). Puzzles can be somewhat rigid in order structure forcing you to wonder back and forth etc - but this is a very minor problem.
Overall I like this game a lot - very good.