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Scrabble 2005 Edition (PC CD) | 
 enlarge | From: Focus Multimedia Ltd
Category: Video Games
List Price: £9.99
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Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 1066
Platform: Windows Xp
Genre: board-games
Media: Video Game
Number Of Items: 1
Age: 3 - 18 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5031366016249
ASIN: B000F3AI6S
Release Date: May 5, 2006
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| Customer Reviews: Read 6 more reviews...
 Disappointing April 22, 2008
R. B. Jones (England, UK)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
It's kind of fun, but it's annoying at the same time:
1) Interface feels really sluggish. You click on a button and it pauses for half a second before making a sound and doing what it's supposed to do.
2) You can't set a default difficulty level, but have to scroll through a list of "personalities" every game. But they don't do anything interesting with the personalities idea - it just serves to make selecting a difficulty level harder.
3) It chops off the bottom of the screen if running in widescreen, as most laptops and many desktops run in these days.
4) It crashes very often - maybe 1 game in 8 (running XP), in the middle of a game
I could live with all of these except the crashing. Just feels like the development was rushed.
Unlike what some other reviews said, it is possible to shuffle your tiles, and you can spell words out on the area on the side of the board. It is a bit annoying though not being able do this directly on the rack.
OK but sooooooooooo slow March 24, 2008
mothsareus (United Kingdom)
It is what it says on the tin... i.e. Scrabble.
On the plus side, it's got a few fun options, like being able to play against opponents of various strengths.
On the minus side, it is very slow (at least on my machine which is quite high spec.)
Many of the 'improvements' are rather gimmicky. I have turned off the soundtrack and I don't particularly need different coloured boards.
On the whole, it's not bad but if only you didn't have to hang around so much.
(Playing a timed 'rated' game is a complete farce because the computer only takes three seconds to play the entire game!)
 Scrabble Interactive 2005 Edition March 16, 2008
Mrs. K. Orourke (UK)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Rubbish - just purchased this game to run on XP, will not work contacted the company and I need to purchase a further piece of graphics software for it to run. It does mention this on the back of the CD under 'System Requirements' - but not until you purchase the game!!
Absolute waste of money - Rubbish! January 4, 2008
Mr. A. Templeton (UK)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
The makers/programmers of this 2005 version really need to take a reality check. We don't need fancy boards which don't even lie in an even plane. We don't need 'clever' computers which will not let you win, and cheat by using more letters than available in a 'standard' board game. It won't let you play your mates on a one-to-one basis. It won't allow you to shuffle your tile rack - I could bore you with my wingeing for hours.
Before bringing out yet more rubbish, I suggest the makers take a good look at the original Spears game that could be played on Windows 95 & 98. It may be old fashioned, but it worked, and provided years of fun. I do not want 'interactive' whatever that means, and I do not want music.
Just do everyone a favour, and reproduce the original (Windows 95/98) game in a format suitable for XP and Vista.
Until that day, Ubisoft will not have another penny of my money, and I will spread the word!
 Not perfect but still fun June 21, 2007
Terry (UK)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
I agree with some of the other reviewers here that there is room for improvement.
One problem with the game is that you cannot update the dictionary to include new words. One website I visited gave 'fe', 'ja', 'ki', and 'za', as possible two-letter words, but this program won't have it. However, I noticed it it quite happy to use 'ph' which the website did not have. I realise the word list will change in both directions, but it is frustrating to know words are allowable - in online play for example - but not when using this program. The only solution is to wait for the 2007 edition. The pre order listing here on Amazon states that the dictionary can be updated in the new version.
I would also say that the navigation through the menus is not very intuitive and I often end up playing the better cpu opponents because it forgets my preference to play against the idiots!
A couple of reviewers have said that they would like to be able to rearrange their tiles on the rack. You cannot do it there but there is an area at the bottom of the actual board which is intended for that purpose, though it took me a while to realise it.
Personally, I'd take a punt on the 2007 edition, which will be available in October 2007, if your looking to buy a scrabble game or at least wait until that one is reviewed here on Amazon.
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