Traitor's Gate

by Dreamcatcher

Product Details

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• ASIN: B00004SV2B
• Item Weight: 5 ounces
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: June 2, 2000
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #60,368 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

You are Raven, and your top-secret mission is to uncover the authentic crown jewels from a highly trained ex-operative. In this mission you will be equipped with the latest gadgets from PIAD, a security department in the Pentagon. You are already carrying a couple of useful items at the beginning of your mission; the rest you will find in the backpack that the SEAL team has placed for you in the sewers under the Tower of London. Good luck.

Product Description

As Special Agent Raven, you must infiltrate the heavily guarded Tower of London to locate and replace the Jewels with exact replicas. To succeed, you will need to out-fox the highly trained security guards and multi-million dollar surveillance system protection the Jewels.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Great for tourists, not gamers, July 9, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Traitor's Gate (CD-ROM)

I wanted to like Traitor's Gate. Really. After all, it offers a brilliant recreation of the Tower Of London, with photorealistic graphics that provide a downright eerie atmosphere. And it is great for anyone who's ever wanted to explore the parts of the tower that are normally shut off to the public (or anyone who can't fly off to London at any given time.) But as a game, it just falls flat. There's precious little character interaction (aside from the occasional guard you'll have to shoot), and the slow, prerendered 3D movement from node to node will grate on your nerves after about fifteen minutes. On the plus side, the puzzles are well integrated (but a little too tough at times), and the gameplay is nonlinear, which is a rare treat for anyone who's ever played a first person graphic adventure. I enjoyed Cyberflix's "Titanic: Adventure Out Of Time," and I hoped this would offer a similar, historically accurate thrill. It had all the potentional, but just fell short.

18 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Spend your video game money somewhere else!, August 8, 2000

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J. Mason "Law Student" (DeKalb, IL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Traitor's Gate (CD-ROM)

There were a lot of things wrong with this game by Dreamcatcher. It seems to me that they spent a lot of time on graphics, but no time on plot development or movies. The basic plot is that you, as a secret agent, have to break into the tower in London that holds the Crown Jewels and replace them with fakes so that this other guy that is planning on stealing them, cannot. Even though I finished the game successfully, I was still told at the end that I didn't remove all of my traces from the towers and that the United States was dissapointed in me. This game has a terribly dull ending, many puzzles and concepts that do not make sense, a maze of sewers that will drive you insane if you don't use a map from a walkthrough, and on top of that: When I contacted Dreamcatcher Interactive for support on how to properly finish the game they told me that I did something wrong at the very beginning of the game and that I would have to play it all over again to win the game correctly. Furthermore, they were extremely rude. :o) Please buy a game with a better plot, unless you want to spend your time lost, looking through a walkthru, and at stupid re-creations of the famous museum holding the royal crown jewels. Dreamcatcher game designers need to put the focus of their games in a better place, and learn how to deal properly with their customer base.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very sweet game!, February 14, 2001

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B. GOODWIN "dragon678" (LIMA, OHIO United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Traitor's Gate (CD-ROM)

Not sure why some of these reviews that were written didn't like the game. OK, it was a very challenging game, so maybe they couldn't figure it out. The box says (and many reviews I had read before purchasing) that this is the most realistic game out there. And they were pretty close. The graphics were splendid and the gameplay was extraordinary. You are Raven. A secret agent sent in to get the Crown Jewels and replace them with fakes. You have many gadgets at your disposal and several, several rooms to explore and each room is done in high detail as you have the ability to look around you a full 360 degrees. You will encounter some guards and you will either work your way around them or take them out with your "sleeping" darts. Either way, this game will pull you in and make you really think about what to do next. You will probably die many times and will have to try this and try that, but stick with it. You will eventually figure it out and reach Traitor's Gate.