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Join Ariane, a determined, young journalist, who falls into the scoop of a lifetime when she discovers an unknown world far below the Earth's surface. Explore primitive landscapes brimming with strange beasts, and encounter the fascinating civilizations that inhabit this foreign land.
The choices Ariane makes will determine the future of this forgotten and primitive world. Will she help save these strange beings and their home--already in peril--or launch her career by exposing their story and threatening their very existence? Cross the threshold into the unknown for an unparalleled adventure, and come face to face with the land at the center of the Earth.
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Journey To The Center Of The Earth revisits the classic book in the modern era. In 1864, Professor Hardwigg claimed to travel to the center of the planet, through an extinct volcano in Iceland. It was considered a fantasy until a young reporter named Ariane fall through that same volcano. Now she'll explore unknown, fascinating civilizations that were thought to be fiction.
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Painful To Navigate,
= Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars
This review is from: Journey to the Center of the Earth (Jewel Case) (Video Game)
I wanted to like this game, the story line is decent and the graphics are good but navigating the screens is painful. They have taken what could have been a good game and ruined it by not paying attention to some basic navigation problems. The cursor indicates that you can move in a direction by showing shoe prints when you hold the cursor over a hot spot. But in this game the hot spots are tiny or in a lot of cases missing. This makes something that should be simple, moving around the screens, very frustrating. In one screen after 5 minutes of searching I couldn't find any hot spots that would allow me to move forward into the market area, even though it was evident that it was where I needed to go. So I gave up and started randomly clicking in the screen, which eventually allowed me to move forward, but again, no hot spots to indicate where I could move to from that position. So more random clicking to try to get to one of the booths in the market. After having to do this to move several times the screen finally changed to show the market from a different angle and at that point I had navigational hot spots again. The tiny hot spots also caused a problem with figuring out what items I was supposed to pick up or look at. It caused me to miss several items in certain screens. And in a few cases the hot spot was completely off the item altogether, causing some confusion as to which item I was to pick up or look at. Another annoying problem was that often my character would stand right in front of what I needed to look at or touch. So I had to keep clicking the screen around her to try to move her out of the way in order to get to the item in question. So unless you have an infinite amount of time and patience, try some other game.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Should have been a good game BUT.......,
= Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars
This review is from: Journey to the Center of the Earth (Jewel Case) (Video Game)
I love adventure games like Syberia, The Longest Journey, Aura, Return to Mysterious Island, etc....and had thought this game would be close in perspective. Actually, the story line is good, the graphics ok, the scenery and music alright....but this game has so many BUGS, HOT SPOT errors, and programming problems that it makes it extremely aggravating to play. It's a true shame because the game had promising appeal, some fun characters, and a nice feel to it overall. Still, this game will leave you plundering so many times, that you'll have to use constant hints or walk throughs to find out why you seem stuck. Most of the time, it's because you cannot navigate to find something, or haven't found a hot spot that isn't indicated at all (it was left out of the programming). For example, to get to the Pharmacy, you have to go off to the left side of the screen in order to move right, and it may flash to the pharmacy or may not sometimes. Also, the hardest puzzle is the totem pole sound puzzle, because if you make ANY error, the game does not reset. So this game has to be saved prior to that puzzle even being started. There are other buggy things, like near the end when you're supposed to have a certain item and you actually have it but it's not seen until you speak with a character that has nothing to do with that item at all. All in all, it's a shame the game was not tested thoroughly before dispersing to the public. If they had made the fixes, it would have been a great game and possibly rated between 8.5 and 7.5. Right now, it's a low rating at 3 just because of the errors.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Avoid this one!,
By choobyrooesq "choobyrooesq" (Los Angeles, CA USA) - See all my reviews
= Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars
This review is from: Journey to the Center of the Earth (Jewel Case) (Video Game)
I am a big adventure game fan - thought this one might be along the lines of Syberia - WRONG! This game had an interesting premise but was absolutely painful to play even when consulting a walkthrough every other minute. The character was hard to navigate, the puzzles completely non-intuitive (who would think to get rid of a t-rex, you had to mix a leaf, twine, paint, and blackened pear to make fireworks which then you had to launch out of a hollow log???) AHHHHHHH! Also because of the super rigid gameplay, you would be unable to do one thing without completing some other menial task, so you would be hunting like crazy for the one little thing you didn't do - and this is after following the walkthrough verbatim. Please play only in the event of a pandemic and you are trapped in your house for weeks and have no other means of entertainment.
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