Journeyman Project 3: Legacy of Time

by Mindscape

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• ASIN: B00001X4Z4
• Media: DVD-ROM
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #30,385 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Travel 3,700 years in the past and embark on an urgent mission to ensure the Earth's survival. Travel to lost mythical civilizations and uncover the secret of the Earth's past. As Agent Gage Blackwood, you'll travel through time, assume multiple identities, interact with characters from ancient civilizations, and weave your way through an intricate web of puzzles. This epic, four-CD-ROM story line continues the Journeyman series. The DVD version offers more than 4 GB of data without the need for swapping disks.

Manufacturer Description

As TSA Agent 5, Gage Blackwood, you will travel through time, assume multiple identities, interact with characters from ancient civilizations, and weave your way through an intricate web of puzzles.

Key features include:
* 360-degree spherical scrolling immerses you in intricately detailed worlds.
* Interact with and assume the identities of 18 characters from three mythical civilizations.
* Challenging puzzles blend seamlessly into the engaging story line.
* New, intuitive interface with a first-person point of view.
* Cinematic cut-scenes enhance progression of the story.
* An epic story line continues the highly acclaimed Journeyman series.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One word--WOW!, July 19, 2000

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Sarah - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Journeyman Project 3: Legacy of Time (DVD-ROM)

I bought Journeyman Project 3 as soon as it was released (was it THAT long ago?) and have been playing it on a regular basis ever since. Gorgeous graphics, engaging storyline, cute one-liners by AI sidekick Arthur, and moderately difficult puzzles make this a game you'll come back to again and again.

Being able to view every, and I mean EVERY screen in 360 degrees was a neat feature that I had not come across before. It showed off the golden architecture of Atlantis and the rugged Himalayas in photorealistic splendour. The soundtrack was pleasant enough, as was most of the dialogue between the characters.

The really great feature about the DVD version is that everything is on one disc, which is much simpler to use than the four-disc CD-Rom version due to less disc swapping in the middle of gameplay. Classic in either format.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars adventure gamer, January 29, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Journeyman Project 3: Legacy of Time (DVD-ROM)

This is an excellent game. The game is not too easy, not too hard. One of the best features of this game is the time traveler's sidekick Arthur (an R2D2 type of guy), who provides hints and tips throughout the game so that there isn't any of the "wandering around aimlessly without a clue" that pervades many of the Adventure games out there. Arthur even lets you choose the amount of information he will reveal to you...you can click on the lightbulb icon above his head in order to gain as many clues as possible to help you solve the puzzles. The storyline of the game is interesting and varied, and the puzzles seem to fit seamlessly into the storyline. All in all, I highly recommend this game.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars As good as any movie, October 18, 2000

By 

Genesis Whitmore (Goldenrod, FL USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Journeyman Project 3: Legacy of Time (DVD-ROM)

Legacy of Time is the final game in a three game trilogy for Journeyman Project, but fear not if you've never played the previous two games, the writers had this in mind when they designed it and the game stands alone quite well. You play Gage Blackwood, an officer for the Temporal corps whose duty is to protect the timestream from being damaged or altered. You travel back and forward through time with the use of timesuits that have various abilities built into them.

In this game, Earth is being threatened by an alien race who are demanding something called the Legacy, plus you have to hunt down a rogue agent who tried to frame you in a previous game (don't worry, they wiped your memory of it). In your travels you learn that the invading aliens had visited earth previously and destroyed the cities of Atlantis, El Dorado, and Shangri La. It is your job to travel to these cities before they were destroyed and try to retrieve the legacy.

Your time suit has the ability to copy the apperance of anybody you meet, and you also have the help of Arthur, an advanced and somewhat quirky AI to translate things and drop hints. Sometimes Arthur gets a bit irritating, but the game is generous enough to offer players with the option to hush him up if they so choose.

Legacy of Time has a very good cast of actors and theatrical grade props and sets. There was never a point in the game where I felt that a better actor could have been cast for a certain role (Even Genghis Kahn is done fairly well!) or that a string of dialogue was badly written.

The interface is also very clean and you have the ability to 'look' a full 365-degrees around you if you desire. If there's anything particularly interesting in the room you can instruct the game to center it in your viewpoint, and Arthur will offer a comment or two about an interesting person, place, or object just to further help you along.

And finally, I highly reccomend this game because it's something that you can play with the kids around without fearing that they might be exposed to any foul language or excessively gory situations. The game tells its story without the need for any of this and still very much remains an epic worthy of any big budget sci-fi movie.