Simon the Sorcerer 4: Chaos Happens

by Playlogic

Product Features

• Official follow up to one of the most popular adventure game series
• Story full of plot twists, lots of unique characters and black humour
• Many highly engaging and mind boggling puzzles
• Easy to use logbook for optimal overview of all quests
• Brand new, dynamic help system

Product Details

• ASIN: B001T2XXN4
• Media: DVD-ROM
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #33,812 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

Great looking graphics and unique atmosphere will thrill both long time Simon fans as well as new players Simon The Sorcerer 4: Chaos Happens is set some years after his last adventure in the Magic World. During a fight over the TV remote with his younger brother, Simon is knocked unconscious, experiencing a vision of Alix, his lady-friend from the Magic World. She tells him a "Simon" doppelganger is causing all kinds of trouble in her world. After Simon wakes up he doesn't know what to make of it. Was it just a dream or is there more? He wastes no time at all and fires up his magic wardrobe to get to the bottom of it. In Simon The Sorcerer 4: Chaos Happens players take control of the witty sorcerer during his new quest in the Magic World. In this point and click adventure the story unravels when Simon travels through beautifully designed landscapes and interacts with dozens of characters, solves puzzles and brings order to the chaos his double has caused.

Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars simon sez ..buy, March 21, 2009

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S. Zaitz "adventure fiend" (ny) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: Simon the Sorcerer 4: Chaos Happens (DVD-ROM)

I am going to make this short......i never played the first 3 Simon games.
to my surprise this was well done...lots of objects to pick up....combine stuff...the puzzles were easy to hard..with a couple wacky ones thrown in...but all were managable....controls worked good...graphics are very nice...colorful...the dialoge is short and interesting...this game is a must buy for any hardcore adventure gamer.this comes from a gamer who likes...tunguska,broken sword,vampyre story,jack keane,dracula origins...

1.0 out of 5 stars Not as good as they once were, December 8, 2011

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Callista - See all my reviews

= Fun:1.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: Simon the Sorcerer 4: Chaos Happens (DVD-ROM)

If you enjoyed the original three-- or even at least the original two-- then this game is probably still not for you. I quite enjoyed the first three. I know the third one was buggy, but it was also hilarious. This is just awful.

The writing feels much more contrived, the acting is borderline horrendous, and the puzzles are too easy. I'm not the type of person who is generally overly critical of games, and I do love a good point and click adventure. But the badly faked American accent, excessively cheesy acting, and poor puzzles nearly killed this whole series for me. And FYI, the fifth one is horrible, too. And I really, really, really wanted the later ones to be good, too.

I do, however, recommend the earlier ones. Especially if you enjoy old school gaming. Simon is rude and, I must say, very entertaining. They have that pixelly old school feel of playing a fantasy version of SpaceQuest. No, scratch that, it's like playing King's Quest where the royal family has been replaced with a cross between American Idol's Simon Cowell and a twelve year old boy kleptomaniac boy who has just discovered firecrackers and naughty humor. So play the series, yes. But stop at three. And I must say, three is buggy-- you've been warned. But if you can get it to work properly, in my opinion, it's the funniest of the three. Four and five, however, will crush your dreams, steal your candy, and then laugh at you in a horrendously fake American accent. Don't touch them with a ten foot pole. They bite.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars WOW!, April 2, 2009

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R. W. Hamrick "GameFreak" (Maryland, USA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Simon the Sorcerer 4: Chaos Happens (DVD-ROM)

This is reminiscent of the old "Kings Quest" series games! If you like adventure, fun and an overall good time, you will really like this game. It has built in "hints" and gives you just enough to continue your quest without giving much away. One of the better games I have played. We need more like this.