SIMON THE SORCERER 3D

                 Reviewed by Stefan Herber

This cannot be classed as a review as I only played about a third
of the game before giving up. It's more of a warning to those of
you out there thinking of buying it. DON'T.

The game had its production problems and took nearly two years to
be released; as a result I suspect that it ended up as a
half-finished concoction. After starting the game I had my system
upgraded and found that it was incompatible with my Geforce 4800
card. Rumour has it that it is incompatible with all the ATI cards
as well. So what is it compatible with? The patch which is nearly
as big as the game itself didn't help.

Simon 1 was the first adventure game I completed without a
walkthrough and was best described as a B version of "Monkey
Island". Simon 2 was much longer but less good; I suspect 3D is
bigger still as two weeks into playing I'd only made Chapter 3.
The character is as unpleasant as he ever was; the puzzles are
often sick (one involves a gnome shooting contest where the gnome
is the arrow) but I persevered. Eventually I disabled my video
card in an attempt to finish the game but it ran like a snail and
as it's keyboard controlled, the difficulty experienced just
moving the character became too much.

If it runs on your system, good luck. If another patch comes out I
might just try again- but I doubt it.










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