Super Jigsaw Wyland's Whales

           Demo downloaded from www.gamehouse.com

                      Reviewed by Sue

In Issue 84 I reviewed Gamehouse's Super Jigsaw Medley and their
special Landscapes edition. I saw recently on their site that they
have brought out several more specialised packages.  These are
Wyland, USA and Pets.

This collection consists of 40 beautiful images by the
environmental artist Wyland. They are all images of whales,
dolphins and other sea creatures and fish. Some are against a
fully underwater backdrop, others have exotic islands in the
background. Wyland makes a lot of use of light and this effect
comes across strongly in the jigsaws too.

Many of the features of Wyland are similar to the other games.
Puzzle pieces can be square or traditional jigsaw shape. They can
be skewed slightly, a lot, or not at all. A slider lets you set
the difficulty level by altering the number of pieces - from 4 to
676! As a further challenge, you can allow the pieces to be
rotated. The puzzle's picture is displayed in the top left corner
unless you opt to remove it. It can be enlarged if you get stuck.

To pick up a piece you just click on it. Then drag and drop it by
clicking again. You can start with just the edge pieces if that's
the way you prefer to do a jigsaw. When two pieces that belong
together touch, they snap together. So just as in a real jigsaw,
you can collect related pieces together on different parts of the
playing area.

The unregistered version lets you plays for just 60 minutes.  The
hour went much too quickly though I managed to complete four
puzzles on easy-medium difficulty levels. I really enjoyed this
program, much more than their other puzzles. Would I buy it?
Probably not because I still prefer 'proper' jigsaws, that I can
sit on the floor to do. The games I'd prefer to play on the PC are
ones that I can ONLY play on it. Having said that, I'd recommend
you download the demo, if only for the hour's play it allows.


















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