Secrets Of Atlantis

by Dreamcatcher

Product Features

• Set out in search of the lost continent and make discoveries beyond your wildest dreams
• Travel to exotic locations around the world - from New York to Macao, palaces and temples in India & Mesopotamia, and more
• More than thirty characters to keep you company on your travels. Watch out - not everyone is totally trustworthy!
• Dozens of puzzles and enigmas to challenge you for hours
• Puzzles are combined with an original soundtrack, short video sequences and charismatic characters

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000RHJTWQ
• Item Weight: 7 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: June 7, 2007
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #24,357 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Secrets of Atlantis is a cinematic adventure filled with mystery and suspense with hours of gameplay and numerous characters and puzzles to solve. Travel back in time for a gritty film-noir adventure with a young engineer who stumbles across an amazing secret - and follows it around the world. It's 1937 and Howard Brooks is returning to New York from Germany by zeppelin when he is attacked by occultists. After learning about these mysterious evil-doers he finds he may be an heir to the lost city of Atlantis. Caught up by his past Howard sets out on an adventure that leads him to fascinating locations around the world -- but his enemies lay in wait having set a trap for him. Help Howard Brooks solve the mystery of his heritage and escape from these occult killers in time. High-quality cinematographic production - An atmosphere so captivating you'll feel like you're really living the adventureSystem Requirements:Windows Vista / 98 / 2000 / Me / XPFormat: WIN 98ME2000XPVISTA Genre: ENTERTAINMENT UPC: 625904549518 Manufacturer No: PCO54951MB

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars If you're an adventure gamer, August 11, 2007

By 

Grumbleguts (Aberdeen Scotland) - See all my reviews

= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Secrets Of Atlantis (Video Game)

I thoroughly enjoyed this game.
The graphics were slightly disappointing - I'd expected better -
but I found the game absorbing and not too difficult at all.

It was standard adventure game fare - and not bad at that.
I didn't find it boring at all - although it's admittedly not the most exciting game I've played.

I would hope there will be another instalment to continue the story.
I have often found games issued as part of a series often falter and are never carried through to fruition.
I'll be disappointed if there are no more chapters.

I think if you prefer the action orientated type of game it won't be for you.
As with all games - it depends on the type of gamer you are.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars An adventure game of the best kind!, December 27, 2007

By 

Laszlo Hopp - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Secrets Of Atlantis (Video Game)

This is a classical adventure game with a good number of puzzles of various complexities, a strong storyline, much better than average graphic, excellent mood and very good to excellent voice acting. My only problem with the game is the first person setting. In order to avoid dizziness in some players, other games either offer a so called "slide mode" (see Scratches), an option to slow down the mouse sensitivity and with this to reduce the spinning effect on the player, or an option to play it in 3rd person - not too many games offer this most desirable option though -

Despite all the spinning I had to endure, I finished the game because it is just so good. I can see how the Soduku and Texas holding can be a turn off for some, but they fit in the storyline very well and I personally enjoyed both. The story follows the quest for some medals and related objects, in order to find the way to Atlantis. During the course, it brings together 3 special characters with ancient Atlantinean heritage and a "bad guy" for added interest. I do not think that this storyline is any worse than most recent, successful Hollywood adventure movies...; plus it is interactive!

The scenes are: the beautifully rendered Hindenburg, the Empire State Building, Macao, an Indian palace, a Mezopotamian village and an imaginary underground setting, all nicely staged in the 1920s and offering plenty to discover.

I am eagerly waiting for the next installment that is clearly implied with the ending that, BYTW, is satsifying on its own terms. But Dreamcatcher Interactive, please, think about those with motion sickness!

17 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Just Another Puzzle Game, September 26, 2007

By 

Robert S. Nevin - See all my reviews
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= Fun:1.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: Secrets Of Atlantis (Video Game)

This game suffers from the same immediate flaw as "Paradise" in that you spend several hours solving meaningless puzzles before the story begins. Of course, there is not much story to begin with. Some people were hired to write code for the puzzles, and someone else was hired to write code to fill in between the puzzles.

After the story finally begins, you solve a puzzle. You walk across the room, you solve a puzzle. You go into the next room, you solve a puzzle. You go downstairs, you solve a puzzle. You are transported to a remote village, you solve a puzzle. You walk across the village square, you solve a puzzle. You walk down the road, you solve a puzzle. You talk to someone, walk up the road, you solve a puzzle. Figure about two hours of actual game play and about some 20 hours of solving puzzles. Those who are not Sudoku addicts should take a pass on that basis alone.

After I solved the absurd Bee puzzle, I realized that I would then have to find and mix a bunch of things and turn various valves on and off. That was it. Even though I was quite close to the end of the game, I really did not care. I could hardly remember what the story was supposed to be.

There is simply too little story here to support the many puzzles. Nothing happens for most of the game because you are always stopping to solve a puzzle. Fans of adventure games should certainly ignore "The Secrets of Atlantis."