Customer Reviews

Scrabble

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3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(7)

 

 

Haven't had a person around to play Scrabble with in years and miss having a GOOD game. You can set the levels from Novice to Tournament or anything in between with the Custom feature.

The online dictionary is handy (even though technically it shouldn't be used during play). You can hit a button to "define last" when the computer plays a word you're not familiar with. Other features include a list of "q" words without "u" and online help you can use based on the letters on your rack. I never use this because it's like cheating.

I'm enjoying it very much and got one for my mother as well. Haven't gone to play on Internet yet but may pursue that as well.

I am one of those Scrabble players that wants to keep playing and playing, even when my fellow human players are sick of it. That's where a computer player comes in. I've played five or six games in a row against the computer.

The game is much improved from the first version, with cleaner graphics and better playing levels. Also, you can choose to play against as many as three computer players. I've found that playing this game has really helped me improve my Scrabble strategies, and my scores have increased steadily.

One feature I really like about this game is the statistics it keeps. You can see your Scrabble rating, and compare that with the official Scrabble levels. The game keeps other statistics, such as your number of wins, winning percentage, highest game, highest single play, and it breaks down your statistics according to one-person, two-person, three-person, or four-person games, as well as tournaments (timed matches).

Scrabble 2 makes the first version look prehistoric in comparison. The new version has sound effects, selection of jazz tunes, animated Maven (computer opponent and Judge), optional board styles, a dictionary and suggestion lists. I never wanted to play the original board game but now I do and its a lot of fun. Great game for kids and adults. You will definitely learn some new words. Scrabble is finally fun! Definitely get this one, dont make the mistake of buying the first version, unless you still have Windows 95. It is slow and you must change color displays if you have 98. If your into word games, you must own this!

I have played Scrabble, the board game, for years and was really excited to begin playing the first Scrabble CD. I ventured to the MSN Gaming Zone and had more fun! Then someone online mentioned something about Scrabble 2.0, so I ordered it. Wow! Outstanding graphics, the tiles "click" just like the ones you hold in your hand, very well laid out with lots of accessories and provides a variety of interaction. While online, you can add emoticons and sounds! Lots of fun!

System requirements for this game include Windows XP. It loaded up fine, but would produce a blank screen when I tried to run the program. I went to the Atari website where the FAQs advised that all programs running in the background would have to be closed. This means I would have to drop my virus scanner and firewall in order to play the game and I was unwilling to do so since I have an always-on connection.

I loaded, uninstalled and reloaded this program twice. It TOTALLY messed up my McAfee Security Center 6 program which (after multiple contacts with McAfee support) eventually required that I uninstall, and reload McAfee. I had to do this twice, once after each installation of Scrabble. Needless to say there will not be a third time.

I went to the Atari website and wrote a question to Atari tech support over a week ago and they have not replied.

Given the problems that it caused with McAfee, the fact it would not run, and the fact that tech support has not responded in over a week to my query, I would not recommend this program to anyone using an always on connection and firewall/virus scanner and would not recommend it to XP users as well.

My son bought Infogrames/Atari/Hasbro Scrabble v2.0 for me as a gift. The game has a faulty copy protection scheme - it requires the CD to be in the drive to play, but then fails to recognize that the CD is present. I spent hours trying to get this game to work because I didn't want my son to feel bad about the gift he gave me.

Infogrames tech support was worse than useless (their toll support number is disconnected, they take 4-5 days to respond to email and advise you to reconfigure your entire computer to play the game - worse, the game still did not work after following their advice and removing all TSR's, changing the start up routine, changing video settings, etc).

I finally downloaded a noCD program for GameCopy.com and was able to get the game to start, but it then would produce a black screen and hang the computer (cold boot required). At that point I cut my losses and threw the thing out.

If you don't believe me, check out the online knowledge base at www.infogrames.com - the list of potential problems and proposed solutions for this game is extensive (and none of the solutions worked in my case). It may be cheap, but that only means it's not worth the time and effort to return it for a refund!

I too had the same problem as "A Gamer". Here's the five minute solution: go to hasbrointeractive.com, click on technical support at bottom of page, click patches page, click Scrabble version 2.0, click Scrabble2 patch.exe, run the program and then enjoy this fabulous game. Hope this helps.

Fair enough, Scrabble 2's got all the 3D features, sounds effects, games review etc., but the question players should be asking themselves is "what dictionary is the software based on?" Anyone who plays championship scrabble and has been to tournaments will agree with me that basing the software only on Websters OSPD isn't sufficicient; What of Chamber's Official Scrabble Word (OSW)??, What about other players dictionaries acceptable in Scrabble tournaments worldwide? I was a lot disappointed with Scrabble 2 while playing the Champion level to discover it doesn't recognise many playable scrabble words.

Probably in the next version, Scrabble2 needs to be updated and equipped with these features to bring it to the same level of ratings as some current professional Chess softwares.

I have found when I first tried to play the scrabble game, I had the same problem of the screen going blank and machine crashing.

I have found once the software is installed, if you find the main loading file, usually .exe extention in the location you installed it too, and right click on this file and choose properties, you can then choose compatibility, I selected run in 256 colour mode and the game runs fine.

I hope this helps.

This is an excellent game to play against your computer (Maven in this case). There's no better way to play the great classic game of Scrabble than on a computer! No lost tiles to deal with; no tiles to shuffle; no scorekeeping difficulties. All this is done for you! And the dictionary function is outstanding. Good graphics, background options, and sound effects as well. I feel that "Maven" has a distinct advantage over the average Scrabble participant here however, in that The Big M (Maven) ALWAYS knows those big, long, oddball-type words that you & I would never even consider plopping down! But it's fun when you can beat Maven, especially when it's set for a high skill level. Just keep in mind, Scrabble-philes, QWERTY is a valid word!