Shivers

by Sierra On-Line, Inc.

Product Features

• Release: 1996
• 3D Environments
• Award winning soundtrack

Product Details

• ASIN: B0007O1NWS
• Media: CD-ROM
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #12,768 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

Mystery sounds through the haunted halls and rings from the rafters of a deserted museum. Was this place a failed dream or was it the waking nightmare of an eccentric old man? Where is the museum's creator, and the other ill-fated visitors who disappeared so long ago? You enter, with nothing but your wits to help you survive. Wretched spirits watch for the innocent, the unwary, ready to steal your life's essence. Can you hear the shrieks now, the howls and moans and wails? They're waiting for you.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Underrated!, September 4, 2007

By 

BelaVeda (US) - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Shivers (CD-ROM)

Shivers is the game to which I measure all other games.

It has spectacular atmosphere. The soundtrack is rather unforgettable, and sometimes pretty darn catchy (damn that elevator!). The graphics are vivid--I haven't found a game with as rich and relevant scenery. Every other game in the genre seems to have a rather drab/realistic setting punctuated with brief glimpses of panoramic prettiness (an ocean, a temple in the distance, etc). Even if the supernatural elements are a bit primitive (c'mon, it was 1996), it's worth glossing over those flaws.

As for plot, the TON of traditional puzzles could easily have been irrelevant, but throwing a crazy professor and museum curator in there makes it plausible-ish that you have to solve a puzzle at every turn. You spend a lot of time clicking around by yourself, but that's how I prefer to play a game like this--there's no stunted conversations, bad lip/dialogue syncs, going away and coming back eight billion times to trigger the proper conversation...and being alone in the museum just gives you more time to freak yourself out and form paranoid theories about the professor and his family. Good times!

Overall, it's a fun little game that, after owning it for over a decade, I've played over and over again as a teen and as an adult. Give it a try and be forgiving on the aforementioned supernatural graphics!

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very Fun, February 28, 2005

By 

Burnt Rice (MD, USA) - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Shivers (CD-ROM)

This was the best game I had ever played when it came out in 1996. The graphics aren't the impressive part- it's the gameplay. It's not 3-D; it is a series of pre-rendered images that give an impression of 3-D space.

If you like puzzles and thinking, you will probably love this game as much as I do. It's not an action game that requires reflexes & a good mouse, like many shooters such as Half-Life, Counterstrike, Unreal Tournament, etc. It's all in the mind so you can use a cheap ball mouse and no mouse pad.

Awesome game that runs on practically any computer. I can't seem to find it for sale anywhere, though...

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars In this case Old is better!, August 14, 2005

By 

Breezeie (Middle, US) - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Shivers (CD-ROM)

Having started playing adventure, role playing games with the original Zork on a C64.... you will have assumed correctly, that I have played a few as in Hundreds???

Sierra designed and produced some of the best games made and played. Shivers is still number 1 in my book over all the games, from various companies, that I have played.

Shivers is a one CD game that encompasses 30+ detailed and awe inspiring rooms to be explored and investigated. The atmosphere is eerie and at times frightening but nonetheless, more fun for it.

If you have not played it, then do. If you like puzzels, humor (as if anyone could refrain from laughing when they look at Prof Windlenot) but basically just the envolvement in solving the mystery of the Museum while getting to have tons of fun is worth the purchase. An extra bonus to Shivers is that they actually give great information and facts about the artifacts in the museum. It was interesting while playing to learn about other cultures, astrology, science, etc.

The puzzels are challenging with some simplistic and others need clues and wits. Yet, none are unsolveable. The story line is cohesive and reels you in so you want to find out what has happened while saving your game often so you don't die too.

So good luck in avoiding the Ixupi if you decide to enter the realm of SHIVERS.