Uru: Ages Beyond Myst

List Price: $29.99 Discount Price: $18.35

Features:

• Experience a new freedom of movement, a first for the Myst franchise: Explore each unique age in real-time 3D, moving your character effortlessly through the world without pointing and clicking.
• Create a realistic character: Choosing from a wide variety of facial and clothing features, you will be able to create a male or female avatar that you will use to explore the world. The range of character options allows you to appear the way you look, or the way you want to look.
• Explore the mysterious and graphically intense world of Uru. Uru's work-of-art style graphics will immerse and captivate you like never before.
• Follow an epic storyline: At the request of Yeesha, the eccentric daughter of Atrus, you'll journey through a variety of different ages, and discover the lost civilization of the D'ni people. As the story unfolds, you'll be drawn deeper into the D'ni civilization.

Accessories:
URU: Ages Beyond Myst (Online Launch) (Prima's Official Strategy Guide)	PC Gamer (1-year)	Games for Windows: The Official Magazine

Customer Reviews:

Mind-Blowing Natural Extension to the Myst Series [Posted on 2006-12-24]
Although this has now been supplanted by Myst Online: Uru Live, this is an excellent experience. The Smithsonian should keep a copy of this in their art collection. Incredibly fun, and a mind-blowing extension to the Myst series. Although the boxed version of this game dates back to 2003, please make sure you have a fairly decent video card in order to fully experience the graphics, and make sure you download the correct drivers for that card (which may be older than the ones you're currently using on your machine).

No joke -- I got motion sick within 5 minutes [Posted on 2007-02-22]
I really liked the visuals and the sounds. I wanted to experience this game, but I became motion sick within 5 minutes of play. It didn't matter whether I set it in first or third person view.

I did research and found out that it was called "simulator sickness", analogous to getting car sick but for opposite reasons. I really wish they had taken the same visual and sound concept, but stuck with the Riven or Exile style of motion.

If they would come up with a non-motion sick version, I would want to play.

I gave it a try on several different occasions, just to make sure I wasn't coming down with the flu, and the motion sickness lingered for two days each time. It was the game.

Uru: Ages Beyond Myst [Posted on 2007-05-18]
Fun to play if into the Myst games. Great fun for all to have. Enjoy, The Larghe's

even better now that it's gone LIVE! [Posted on 2008-01-21]
I enjoyed this game. . .and have played it more hours than any other! (I play many games) and Love all the Myst series games. The community that has developed with Uru is awesome, and they make it a must try. The stand alone game inspired many forum based games and puzzles that the fans created for each other, we played together daily for years even before the game was picked up by Gametap and offered Live! Now we can litterally play together, online and we have regular new content added, that you can't get anywhere else.
I highly urge you to try it. I too was not fond of the avatar idea, at first, but now I would miss her if she were gone! ;)

URU: Ages Beyond Myst [Posted on 2008-03-27]
I am an avid player of the myst and riven, and all adventure games. I must say that URU is a game that has unbelieveable sights and sounds. The graphics and details in the scenes are phanominal. You have so much to see in not just the details of the game but also for instance, there's the building that rotates and as you wait to align the walk ways the background scene is just beautiful with the mountain and falls and valleys that you see as your revolving around with the building. The puzzles are great to try and you can also interact with things like shooting at stuff from a distance. But with all these game be aware that you should save your game as often as you can when going through puzzles and places that you don't want to repeat. I love this game and have played it 4 times and each time is just as rewarding as the first. So give it a try. I think its one of the best of the series.

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