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Journey to the Center of the Earth | List Price: $19.99
Discount Price: $9.65
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Platform: Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows XP
Brand: Viva Media, LLC
Binding: Video Game
Release Date: 2003-10-23
ESRB Age Rating: Everyone
Features: - Explore an unknown world hidden beneath Earth¿s surface
- 3D adventure game on PC with 30-40 hours of game play
- Interact with 30 characters in real-time 3D
- 300+ different views, 200+ objects, and 100+ puzzles to solve
- Unique atmosphere enhanced by original soundtrack and sound effects
Unfinished, Unprofessional, Unplayable [Posted on 2005-12-28]
This is junk. The "designers" have incorporated some of the worst game design mistakes in the past ten years, all in a single package. Poor voice acting, terrible pathfinding, dull art and little music or ambient noise. Worst of all, utterly broken puzzles, with no clues, no feedback, just random clicking on pylons or items scattered randomly over the landscape. This is a disaster -- did these people not do ANY playtesting??? Have they never played a game before themselves???
Pretty dull [Posted on 2006-04-20]
Despite having a nice variety of locations and artistic style( a value I probally place too much emphasis on in video games), this game falls flat and becomes another sad excersice in computer adventure gaming..Only get if you are a true fan of the genre and have nothing to play
Wouldn't even load = Video problems [Posted on 2006-04-30]
I have a very state-of-the-art computer with all the accelerated video, drivers, sound, etc that is needed to run any game., with all the drivers kept up to date. This game wouldn't even load and kept crashing the system, even to the "blue screen" of dumping physical memory. I ran all patches, changed video modes, changed compatibility modes and nothing would work. If that's any indication of what's left for problems if it ever runs, check out the other reviews of those who actually got it to work...lots of problems. What a shame such a promising game ended up such a waste.
Glad I only paid a buck for this! [Posted on 2006-05-06]
Risking a dollar for this at the local library sale, I can safely say I got my money's worth.
Very shortly into it, I decided the game made little sense in its layout and clues. I've read that this was originally written in another language and had to be translated. Perhaps this is why there are several odd turns of phrases. (ex: a thigh or arm bone, when heated, is labelled 'hardened cranium')Doesn't make up for the rest of the game, though.
I finally gave up and out of pure curiosity, set the laptop next to the computer and followed a walkthrough step by step. TEDIOUS is the word. Running back and forth...one field was 4 clicks and even with Arianne at a loping run, it still took forever. Right now, I don't know if I will even finish it- maybe if I'm absolutely bored out of my hardened cranium.
Good graphics makes me overlook lesser problems, but the graphics in this was not good enough. The sky was pretty much blank and while there where a few nice shots, the scenery was not special at all. Too, there was little movement of secondary characters, trees, etc. What did move tended to be very repetitive.
Gameplay was frustrating. Some hotspots were very, VERY small, which forced you to spend too much time trying to find the exact point. On several instances, a necessary hotspot would not appear until you finished other actions.
Clues, when existent, made little sense. Perhaps it was that translation thing again, but I don't think so. Just a poorly planned game. Period.
Overall, I'm afraid I have to recommend you save your money, time, and wits. There are far too many better games out there to bother with Journey- not even for a buck.
PLEASE make it quit... [Posted on 2007-11-22]
"Please make it quit!!" was what I was thinking the entire time I was attempting to play this game. I kept hoping that things would change and it would get better, but NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, it never did, so I finally gave up in utter frustration. I have never before "played" a game that was so totally UNplayable, as this one is.
It is absolutely impossible to navigate in this game, as hotspots are microscopic/missing, and the visible ones don't work. The "puzzles" are simply a collection of miscellaneous inventory items used in completely illogical ways on equally illogical objects. Can't navigate in this game, by the way - Arianne spends an inordinate amount of time actually physically stuck somewhere, while I went over the screen 1/4 inch at a time, looking for any way out. The progression of this game is utterly ridiculous, as frequently Arianne has to accomplish a task BEFORE she is given the necessary information to accomplish that task! Did I mention that the navigation is criminally horrible???
If it were possible to give this game a big, fat ZERO, I'd do it. I finally had to quit before my blood pressure blew my head off. Or, before I put a sledgehammer through my monitor (and it was NOT the fault of my hi-tech computer). I agree with the other reviewer who said it wouldn't even be fair to give this to someone else, as that would be incredibly cruel to another human being.
Save your money!
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