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While trying to find his senior mentor, Jack gets caught by a spell of a different nature and must find his own way through a chain of non-parallel dimensions and figure out how to prevent it all from taking place before it even happens. In danger of being lost for an eternity, Jack has to find his way through a strange and amazing universe to save himself and Doc Maitland from the Forever Worlds.
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- First-person perspective, adventure game transports the player into a series of surreal and immersive worlds where magic and fantasy merge with subtle humor and beautiful images in a fantastical and unique storyline
- Intuitive interfaces and navigation combine with an extensive inventory of collected items and numerous puzzles
- A game combining time travel to and exploration of exotic and unique locations
- Virtool Engine allows for photorealistic graphics and many special effects
- Unusual creatures and characters to talk to and interact with
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81 of 82 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Don't let the packaging fool you!,
By thomasbc (Kents Store, VA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Forever Worlds (CD-ROM)
An old Ross Perot quote pretty much sums up this game: "You're going to hear a giant sucking noise" as you play this game. Whoo, baby, does this game stink! I thought that 'The Crystal Key II' (another recent Dreamcatcher/Adventure Company game) was pretty awful, but I did not know there was a whole other level of bad below that! Holy cow, how does dreck like this manage to get published with such flashy and professional packaging and marketing?Jeez, where to start? How about with the incredibly bad interface. The game is a standard point-and-click adventure game where you navigate from point to point and then pan around in 360 degree views. Panning requires you to hold down the left mouse button while dragging the mouse in the direction you want to pan. What is so awful about this interface is that when you have dragged your mouse the entire width of your mousepad, you have only panned about one quarter of way around the view. You then have to lift and reposition your mouse to drag it some more in the direction you are panning! Most games have an option to correct this by letting you set the mouse sensitivity to a speed that you (and your video card) are comfortable with. Is that option available here? NO! Can you pan with your keyboard instead? NO! As a matter of fact there are absolutely NO games options whatsoever! You are stuck with one panning rate, one music volume, one dialog volume (a real shame since the dialog is putrid), and...you get the picture. Getting an item into your inventory is pretty easy (just click on it), but getting it out is absolutely painful. You first have to click on a screen icon to pull up your inventory list, click on an item to see a larger view of it in the middle of your screen, click on that large image to change your cursor into a representation of that item, and then click on the exit button of the inventory screen. Finally you then have to click on the game spot where you think the item might be useful. Unfortunately, you typically have no clue as to what might work at a specific hot spot, so you end up trying EVERYTHING in your inventory to see if something works (and there is a lot of junk in there sometimes)! The puzzles of the game are a joke. As a matter of fact, the very first two puzzles you encounter are pretty much the same thing: try to find the correct sequence of clicks to get all the way through the puzzle; if you guess wrong, start over! They don't get much more imaginative beyond that. My game came with a "limited edition" game strategy guide included free. I'm guessing that all of them will come with this guide because, otherwise, nobody will be able to (nor want to) finish this embarrassment. As a final insult, the developers thought they would try to spice up their incoherent game by adding a lot of humor. Done well, humor can add a very entertaining aspect to an adventure game. The classic Zork games are excellent examples. When done badly, as in this case, it just becomes irritating to the point of distraction. Most of it is just not funny (okay, maybe to a six year old) and does not "fit" in the atmosphere of this game. Jive talking jungle natives? Please. Again, like Crystal Key II, this looks like the work of an independent game developer who has spent years putting together a workable game using "knives and bearskins". If so, I would have admired the work and enjoyed the game for what it was. Unfortunately, this game was, again, developed by what looks to be a large team (Hexagon). Games like these give the game genre, which I love the most, a huge black eye and are probably the reason why so many people get turned off by adventure games. What a shame, because there are some really good ones out there. Unfortunately, you have to dig through a lot of dung like this to find it. Avoid this game.
22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Writing that makes you wish you were in Soviet Russia,
= Fun:1.0 out of 5 stars
This review is from: Forever Worlds (CD-ROM)
Oh man, where do I begin? First of all, I have never written an amazon review. Reason being that I am usually pretty indifferent, or i should say on the level and feel that the customer can choose for him or herself without listening to my opinion which is many time different from theirs anyway. However, this game was so utterly and painfully terrible that I feel it my duty .... no, my crusade, my jihad, my mission and my ka to warn anyone, ANYONE no matter your usual preference of games to avoid this embarressmet at all costs. Do not take this game even if someone offers YOU 20 bucks to take it off their hands. This curse, this abomination may quiet possibly signal the doom of mankind and any further intelligent thinking on the part of mankind. The writing is terrible on such a level that I felt sick listening to the dialog .... which is impossible to turn down other than adjusting you own speaker volume because this game offers absolutely no game options what so ever. I am one of the few people who still love playing adventure games and i state this so no one gets the imppression that i am a first person shooter who's first forray into adventure gaming was this. I play adventure games for story, writing and thinking .... this monstrosity of a game gets a F in every category. I'm serious, do not waste your money on this game, do not waste your time or even 2-3 days of your life on this game .... go outside and feed bread crumbs to ducks or drill an enormous hole straight through your eyeball, just do not play this game. It is a curse that will stay with you. After witnessing this you will never ever buy an adventure again without first reading 30 reviews at least. After playing this game, which i might add I did not have the stomach to complete, I now no longer believe that mankind as a whole is evolving upwards toward some form of perfection. I now believe that we are de-volving at an unparrelled rate and that soon we will be swinging from trees again or living in caves drawing stick figures of deer and bears and such and calling those stick figures works of unriveled artistry. Please, unless you are considering all the pros of tolitarian censorship, then avoid this game as if it were a rampaging rabid grizzley in heat.
37 of 40 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Quirky fun, if you have the patience,
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This review is from: Forever Worlds (CD-ROM)
A strange little game, this. There's evidence of a delightfully fun personality behind the writing. I found myself laughing out loud more than once when the Flaming Mask guy suddenly demanded to have his nose scratched in the middle of prophesying the planet's doom.On the other hand, the basic plot is never explained sufficiently for the average player to figure out just what the HECK is going on. The game comes with a step-by-step walkthrough, and that's a good thing, because many of the puzzles are only solved by doing completely unrelated things. I resent this -- there ought to be some sort of internal logic that allows the persistent user to actually *solve* a problem occasionally instead of just tripping over the solution because you threw everything in your inventory at it. It also needs to be said that the game is buggy. The game's forum shows that everyone else had the same problem I did -- inexplicable freezes that require you to reboot to get out of the game. But problems aside, the game's sense of humor makes up for a lot. I played, laughed, got frozen, cursed heartily, rebooted, and went back to playing. But if you have blood pressure problems, perhaps you might want to think this one over carefully.
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