80 Days: Around the World Adventure

List Price: $19.99 Discount Price: $6.99

Features:

• Play as Oliver in this wild adventure game based on Jules Verne's book
• Travel around the world in 80 days to help uncle Mathew win a bet
• Journey to Egypt, India, Japan, and America; choose level of difficulty
• Manage time, money, rest, and food; meet and interact with 100 characters
• Real-time 3-D engine, clothes animation, shaders, sound engine, and more

Accessories:
PC Gamer (1-year)	Games for Windows: The Official Magazine

Customer Reviews:

Clunky [Posted on 2006-08-14]
This game did not live up to my expectations. Moving the main character around was very difficult. I played for a while and had to quit. My 80 days was going fast because I couldn't manuever. It would have been a great game. Don't waste your money. By the way, I will try to finish the game but I have to build up my tolerance and patience.

Follow the linear path to the next cutscene. [Posted on 2006-11-26]
That's what this game boils down to. I played the entire game and I don't think that I would want to do it again. All you do is follow the direction of the arrows shown in the mini-map and trigger another cutscene. There are some puzzles along the way but some of them are so arbitrary that you will most likely be peaking at a walkthrough.

This game felt more like watching an animated movie that being totally immersed in a pc game. Most everything that you do is just go to the direction of the little arrows in your mini-map. You really can't explore anything. Everything besides the linear path is not accessible. You can't enter any other buildings and the people you run into outside the linear path just say the same thing over and over.

Now the bugs. There are bugs in this game. The most frequent are freezing lock ups. About every 30-40 minutes of gameplay, the game will just freeze and then resume after about 10-15 seconds. It happens all the time and will guarantee to frustrate you. There's also some clipping, invisible walls, crashing to the desktop, etc. You will experience these things no matter what system you have or if your are using the 1.1 patch or not. And, there are NO quick saves or any type of manual saves for that matter. The game saves at checkpoints. With these type of bugs, you're lucky if you make it sometimes until the next checkpoint.

I really wanted to like this game but, in the end, it just didn't immerse me into a game like I wanted it to. I kept a Bombay demo for it though, the full version is just not worth keeping.

80 Days [Posted on 2007-02-21]
This game would have been much more fun and easier to play if you could control everything with the mouse, versus having to use your keyboard.

unhappy [Posted on 2008-01-18]
i finally gaveup on this game unable to make it run properly i got the latest windowxp intel 2core 2.2 mghs with 2 gig memory also nvidia drivers for my video card geforce 8500gt this game froze after each ending and every restart had to re enter all the drivers a real nuisance so i put it away for ever. bye george

Silly, but fun and beautiful [Posted on 2008-02-21]
80 days creates a beautifully designed 3-D world with a strong Art Nouveau aesthetic. The game play is not too difficult and the humor is very silly--mainly involving anachronisms and jokes about Scotsmen and kilts. Although the game engine is not "state of the art," the production values--music, voice acting, and localization are all very good. Frogwares is a company to watch if you enjoy period adventure games set in 3-D environments.

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