Nightlong: Union City Conspiracy

List Price: $10.99 Discount Price: $0.01

Features:

• Windows 95/98/ME/XP, Pentium 100 MHz, 16 MB RAM, 4x CD-ROM drive, 30 MB Hard Drive Space
• SVGA Graphics Card with 1 MB Video RAM
• Recommended: Pentium 133 MHz or faster, 32 MB RAM
• DreamCatcher
• PC

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

Customer Reviews:

old but fun [Posted on 2003-01-21]
This game is now quite old. It's still pretty fun though. The best attraction is the wisecracking main character.

Some of the puzzles are of the tedious "search and search and search until you find that one item that you didn't see" variety. In fact, the puzzles were generally a weak point in the game. I got bored with them and checked UHS for solutions.

I didn't get bored with the plot though, which was rather fun.

Great game! but only for older machines [Posted on 2003-06-05]
An adventure game like they used to make them -- intelligent, funny, challenging, and thought-provoking. One warning: There's a major bug about a third of the way through the game that crashes the game to the desktop on machines running Win98 or later. The manufacturer's solution? Download a saved game from their website that picks up after the problem. Better than nothing, I suppose.

No Big Surprise [Posted on 2003-07-18]
:::sigh:::
What can I say about Nightlong? It's tedious, the voice acting is pathetic, the graphics are strange, and the plot is nearly non-existant. This game ignores the details of the storyline, and puts forth all their efforts into opening doors and collecting dead rats. I was expecting an in-depth and interesting game, but was greatly disappointed in the end. There were so many areas where the creators could have pushed the story along to make it more intriuging, but of course they did not.
Also, the puzzles are NOT logical. They're like standardized tests, only once correct answer when there are more possible ones. Lots of pixle searching, which drove me to read a walkthrough. And, with that, it only took me about ten hours to complete the game.
Maybe my expectations were too high, I was hoping for another The Longest Journey. But, in any case, this game fizzled out long before the climax.

Nightlong works on my 2000 ME(Change hardware acceleration) [Posted on 2006-09-11]
I change my hardware acceleration to none and then nightlong worked on my 2000 ME. Also if i switch to game compatible setting it works ok.Otherwise it crashes in the sphinx room.For people with newer computers try switching to game compatible or turn off hardware acceleration and the game might be ok then.

Looked forward to playing this game everyday.... [Posted on 2008-01-21]
Enjoyable game. I think another reviewer said it reminded them of 'MacGyver", that show where the character had to be creative with objects in order to get out of sticky situations. This game is somewhat like that. It wasn't too difficult - I only relied on a walkthrough once. It also worked fine on XP. The only problem is you'll need to download a patch from Dreamcatcher, & after that, you can continue to play.

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