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Binding: Video Game Brand: Encore EAN: 0705381143109 ESRB Age Rating: Everyone Label: Encore Software Manufacturer: Encore Software Model: 14310 Publisher: Encore Software Release Date: September 11, 2007 Sales Rank: 62 Studio: Encore Software
Features:
PC Games Software; for Windows and the Macintosh!
Windows XP Compatible, Macintosh Compatible
Game Genre: Puzzle/Board
Minimum Hardware Requirements: 1.0 GB Hard Drive Space ; 450.0 MHz Processor Speed ; 128 MB RAM
Product Description: It's game time! 21 classic and new challenging favorites provide something for every player with HOYLE® Puzzle Games 2008. This great collection features traditional puzzle game standards like Hangman Mahjongg and Anagrams PLUS mind-bending puzzle classics like Sudoku and over 1200 different Crosswords. All games are designed with the official rules from HOYLE the Official Name in Gaming. You automatically earn HOYLE Bucks the more you play the more you earn! Get new backgrounds music tracks etc. All games are based on the official rules from HOYLE® the authority for over 200 years. Create your own character with Face Creator customizing everything from facial features to clothing. Interactive computer opponents with multiple skill levels to challenge everybody. Play together on the same computer and challenge your friends and family with old classics or play alone and take the high score! This is the biggest and best puzzle assortment yet!! Now with built-in compatibility for both PC and MAC users alike!System Requirements:Windows® 2000 SP4/XP (Home & Pro) SP2/Vista™¹ Pentium® III 450MHz (800 MHz processor for Vista) 128MB RAM (512 MB RAM for Vista) DVD-ROM drive 1 GB Hard Disk space 640 X 480 16-bit color display. Macintosh® OS X 10.4.10 G3 G4 G5 or Intel Core Duo processor 600 MHz or higher 256 MB RAM DVD-ROM drive 32MB VRAM (ATI Rage cards not supported) 1 GB hard drive space. ¹Administrator privileges are required to properly install the program on Windows 2000 Windows XP and Vista. Format: WIN 2000XP Genre: ENTERTAINMENT Rating: E UPC: 705381143109 Manufacturer No: 14310
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - kinda boring
Hoyle made a big mistake by putting this game on a DVD Rom. The people buying it, older people mostly, probably don't have a DVD Rom drive and will be angry they can't run the game.
Overall I found the games kinda dismal and disappointing, even though there was a lot of them. High ZZZZ factor.
Rating: - Older version just fine!
If you own an older version, I would recommend you stay with what you have. The graphics have been improved but the sound effects in the new version, specifically Triple Yacht are annoying.
Rating: - Very Good Value. Good for Mac
I've never bought Hoyle software before, but this package offers mucho bang for the buck, given that most downloadable shareware games are $20 per game. There are several addictive games in here, and they run flawlessly on my Mac Pro as well as my G4.
I have only 3 complaints in order of increasing importance:
1. The graphics are quite low-res and lack the beauty of many of the new games for Mac that adopt the elegant graphical style of the OS.
2. The rules for all the games are in a single pdf file, so if you click on rules, you have to wait for a pdf reader to load and then search a large document to find your game.
3. There's little progression in games as you play longer and better. There are high scores in a menu, but each game is basically the same thing over and over, so you never get a sense of progressing through higher levels. Some games have more difficult levels to choose from, but if you select a certain level and play for an hour, you get no sense in terms of points or levels reached that you've accomplished anything.
But if you want a large variety of mindless games for your Mac, there is no better deal than this.
Rating: - CAUTION! product info is not clear!
This is a DVD, not a CD. If you don't have a DVD drive, you can't use it!
Rating: - Feels like a beta
The game may claim to work with OS X, but that's stretching the definition of compatible. If you have multiple users with their own account, each user must register the product separately, and cannot see the other scoreboards.
In just an hour or so of play, the chess product was revealed to be buggy, especially about end game rules. It declared a draw due to insufficient material when the human player had a queen, a rook, a knight, and a pawn or two. (There were also legal moves for the computer player). The mahjongg tiles product was trying to do matches against buried tiles.
Don't expect even a passable chess opponent on the normal difficulty setting. As an unrated chess player, I should find the normal mode at least a passable game, instead of beating it so readily as to be boring.
I haven't even had the time to look at the other games. We wanted a couple of the popular board games, a decent mahjongg solitaire game, and maybe one or two more. Instead, we got what might eventually be a usable product, but certainly isn't one yet.
The scoreboard was more primitive than what I'd find on the freebie mahjongg games that come with some Linux desktops.
The patch that is listed on their website is a Windows .exe, no mention made of a Mac patch. If you want a Mac puzzle/board game, don't select with this product unless you are truly desperate, or have tried many other options and they are even worse.
- kinda boring
- Older version just fine!
- Very Good Value. Good for Mac
- CAUTION! product info is not clear!
