Uru: Ages Beyond Myst

SubKamran

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Um, what can I say about this game? It's very strange...but strangely fun too. Basically what I've gathered so far is you teleport to different "locations" to solve puzzles and activate "hands" that do something. The fact is, I haven't beaten a puzzle yet so I don't know what happens.

It's hard to explain. It's fully 3D, and by "puzzles" I mean like, for example:

The first puzzle, which you can play in the demo, you are in this desert. So, at first, you are like "wtf". So you walk a ways to this trailer with a dude sitting out front reading a book. Basically, he tells you someone is waiting for you down in the cliff and you should listen to her. "When you're done, enter the tree." So I went down in the cliff, I saw this clothing on the wall with a "hand". I activated it and the thumb glowed. So I thought, "Hmm, well, I must have to find these."

Well, I explored a bit, tried the doors and stuff, I tried activating things but they didn't work. I went back to the guy, he gives you hints, so he tells me to turn on the windmill. I do that, voila, I can watch the hologram woman talk to me :P So she says, "Find these tapestries, 7 of them, to continue your journey."

So basically, the first puzzle is opening the door to enter Uru. You must activate the 7 tapestries (which are hidden damn well). To do that, some puzzles require to activate machines, search, and do lots of stuff.

All in all, at first I thought, "Hmmm, this is a WIERD game." But I really like it now, it's quite fun. No fighting, just solving puzzles, and for a guy who likes logic puzzles I'm having fun.

The environments are spectacular too :P Download the demo if you want to try it out.
 
Yeah, it was fun. I liked having full realtime graphics this time, it gave so much more freedom. Although I did miss the sprawling innovative puzzles of Riven, which is still my favorite game of the series. But it was still cool.
 
Pls don't say teleport... you Link to different locations.

It's really a shame the online version went down. There are several expansions you can get for it though.
 
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