Time Machine

by Dreamcatcher

Product Details

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• ASIN: B00004T1MK
• Item Weight: 12 ounces
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: August 28, 2000
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #38,868 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

Platform: PC | Edition: Standard

Amazon.com Product Description

The New Adventures of the Time Machine is an adaptation of one of the most well-read adventures in literature. Enter the adventure inspired by the work of H.G. Wells, and explore time travel as you face perilous situations and interesting characters. Your challenge is to survive against the forces of time. There is only one being capable of restoring the balance of time, only one being who can help you find your own era again--a mythical being, a Demi-god, The Master of the Hourglass: Khronos.

Product Description

The Time Machine disappears in an explosion of light. You are unharmed, but realize the dreadful consequence of the accident: your ability to go back to where you came from is made impossible without your Machine. You have paid the ultimate price for your curiosity. Now you are a prisoner of time: your past possibly lost forever in an uncertain future where your fate is unknown.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

20 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Nice graphics but the game is terrible., November 2, 2000

By 

Nick - See all my reviews

This review is from: The New Adventures of the Time Machine (CD-ROM)

When I started playing the game, I regretted buying it instantly. The graphics were stunning. The music was engaging. However, the controls were extremely confusing.

Talking with characters in the game was a tedious task- you have to position yourself directly infront of anyone that you wanted speak to. And before you can press the "action" button, the guy walks away. When you finally get to talk to the person that you wanted to speak to, he answers " Go away little boy !" All the effort for nothing !

At the start of the game, you are thrown into an unfamilliar world that is supposed to be the future. The game lacks clues and each puzzle, in turn, seems disturbingly more illogical than the one before, thus you have completely no idea what to do or where to go, except running around mindlessly.

The game has many beautifully rendered landscapes but this does not make it up for the gameplay. Worst still, the many wacky camera angles that you have to endure throughout the game will make you head spin. Even the camera angles in TombRaider games aren't this bad.

This game has a nice packaging and graphics- but don't be fooled by it.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Frustrating at the start. Hopeless by the end., January 24, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: The New Adventures of the Time Machine (CD-ROM)

The graphics are rich and interesting as well as the sound. Thats where it ends. Controls were difficult to use. Clues to puzzles, non existent. You waist alot of time running around trying to figure out what to do. After the first hour of game play I gave up and used a walkthrough. The plot is a linear sequence of scenes (about 11 in all). Once you leave a scene you cannot return so if you forget something in scene 3 that you need in scene 11 - well tough luck. You have to start over. The scenes present puzzles that become increasingly difficult as you progress. Unless you have a lightning fast processor you won't be able to complete the adventure. Game speed will get bogged down, game controls will be sluggish, you can't draw weapons fast enough, you can't run to escape a threat, etc. Don't waist your money.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Annoying Controls, September 23, 2001

By 

"teg186" (Astoria, NY United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The New Adventures of the Time Machine (CD-ROM)

I have tried several times to play this game after installing it months ago. I just find it so annoying to try to maneuver the character and interact with people and objects! To open a door or pick up an object, you have to be positioned right in front of it, or nothing happens. That would not be a problem if the character were easy to maneuver. But he walks too fast and will overshoot the mark if you don't time your moves just right.

Once you do finally come into contact with another character, the exchange is completed unsatisfying. The characters (including your own) have nothing of interest to say. Even calling them "characters" is being generous. They reminded me of the voice of the computer on Star Trek (vaguely, as Majel Barrett has much more personality than these automatons.)

I suppose the above wouldn't be so bad if there were some sort of mission to encourage you to continue. But all that the short introduction reveals is that you are trapped in the future and now you have to find your way home. We've all seen that plot before and it's usually accompanied by some intricate subplots to give it more depth. I have yet to see that here.

If it still interests you, check out www.dreamcatchergames.com and see if there's a demo you can download. Maybe your experience will be better than mine. Here are some games I have played and can recommend: Blade Runner (personal favorite); Beyond Atlantis; Dracula: The Last Sanctuary; and Dracula: Resurrection.

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