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You begin when you meet with Cathrine and Atrus. This guy suddenly appears and steals the linking book to Atrus' new world. YOu have to go get it back. You start on J'nanin. From there you can choose to link to the islands of Amatera, Voltaic, or Edanna. Voltaic follows the traditional machine-driven portion in every game in this series. This was the last Island I completed and it was probably my hardest. Amatera is the Island of these astounding man-made phenomenas. Thats the only way I know how to explain them. You can't just describe it, you gotta see it. I liked that Island the most until I got to Edanna. This is nature like you've never seen it before. It was the most amazing thing I have seen from an adventure game yet. YOu almost wish it was real. Once all islands are completed your not done yet. You have to visit the home world of this crazy guy who stole atrus's new world, N'Rauyan. Be careful though. There is more than one oppurtunity to die if you don't do it right.
Anyway, this game is awesome. I think its harder than Myst but easier than Riven. I did not use a strategy guide so its not impossible.
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I finished this game not too long ago. In this Myst game, there are six Ages, although only five of them have puzzles. For those of you who have never played a Myst game (and, if that's the case, then you might want to play the other two, or at least read the books), an Age is a world that you can get to through a special book. Books that can take you to Ages have a panel in them that has a picture of that world - if those books no longer work, then that panel is black. The game begins in Tomahna, which, from what I got to see of it, is pretty enough that I found myself wishing I could look at more of it. You get to talk to Atrus a bit in Tomahna, before the two of you are interrupted by a man who steals Atrus' newest book, which links to Releeshan. This is not good, because this book is intended to be the new home of the D'ni people (who we first found out about in the second Myst game, Riven). Atrus is unable to follow the man, so you follow him instead and are taken to a learning age. While there, you will have to collect information that will help you in the other ages you visit. Three of these other Ages can be visited in any order you wish, while the fourth one can only be visited after you've learned all you need to know in the other Ages. In the process of learning things about the various Ages, you also learn about the man who stole Atrus' book and why he hates Atrus so much.
First, the graphics. All the Ages are lovely, so much so that I eventually got used to it. Occaisionally, there were things that I saw that really grabbed my attention, but it was only when I first started playing that EVERYTHING was amazing to me. It all looks great, and you can pan 360 degrees around, looking at everything. The only things that were a bit iffy were the people themselves. As usual with the Myst games, you don't get to see many people, but there are a few in this game. By themselves, the people look fine, but when you take them in with the background, they look a bit matted on. I don't know what it is, maybe they don't have the right shading and shadows or something, but they don't always look like they're a part of their environment.
Looking at the background is fine enough, but I'm really starting to want to play with more things in the different evironments. I think Riven was the best of the three Myst games at this. There were a lot of objects around that you could both look at and play with. Myst III does have several objects that you can do things with, but it didn't feel like there were enough of them. There were lots of beautiful worlds, but it felt almost like being in an expensive glass store, where you can look but not touch.
Now, the puzzles. For the most part, I really liked them. It was usually possible to figure out what you were supposed to do without having to make godlike leaps of logic. Also, when you did something correctly, there was usually, although not always, some sort of immediate indication of that. That helped with my frusteration levels a bit, because the there wasn't as much of a likelihood that I would do something correctly and not realize I could go on to some other puzzle. In each Age, there were puzzles that were pathetically easy and puzzles that drove me crazy, but I usually felt like it was possible to solve them. There are no timed puzzles, and no puzzles where you are forced to compete against the computer, which is very nice.
The story, such as it was, was interesting enough. This is not one of those games that plays like a movie with interactive puzzles. There are several possible ways to end the game, all of which depend on your choices just before the game ends. Before that, don't worry, there's really no way you can "mess up" and find yourself stuck without any way to go forward in the game. The only part of the game that is, for me, really replayable is the end.
Definitely worth buying, if you like adventure games. Some of the game might go over your head if you aren't familiar with the Myst games (you'll probably be asking yourself you Atrus is, or who the D'ni are), but I still think it would be an enjoyable game.
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This game is wonderful, especially at the bargain prices you can get it nowadays. I'm about a 1/3rd of the way through, and the graphics are great and the puzzles are challenging. Some mention that this game isn't fully-3D, but it would be a disservice to this game to make a quake-like engine for it. I would recommend glancing at a walkthrough if you get stuck somewhere for more than an hour (But don't keep following it).
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Loved Myst & Riven and played them till my eyes nearly fell out. I looked forward to Exile for so long and the day I finally got it I unplugged the phone and thought I was in for months of superb gaming... how wrong can a person be.. I can sum up this game in one word: BORING. I got through the 1st age which consisted of one really LONG & DULL puzzle. I hoped the next age would be better - no. I was faced with more pointless lever pulling & dial turning and thought - no I can't face this anymore. It was just too difficult & uninteresting! Very unhappy I uninstalled the game and sold it after just a week. My recommendation to UBI Soft is to allow more interface with the environment (add an inventory for example) and try to let more actually happen. Walking though screen after screen to pull a lever which MIGHT do something is not fun. I do like the spartan feel of the trilogy but perhaps some more character interaction wouldn't go amiss.
To anyone considering buying this - don't. Even if you LOVED Myst & Riven I'd be amazed if you liked this.
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If you want to buy this game i would not recomend it. It will be fun in the beginning but it get old very fast. It is not the best game i have gotten, you might like it but it is very callenging and hard to beat. I would rather buy 'Reign of fire.' Reign of fire is a very great game...remember myst3 is a very hard game.
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