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Rhodan: Myth Of the Illochim (PC DVD) | 
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| From: Deep Silver
Category: Video Games
List Price: £19.99
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 3310
Platform: Windows Xp
Genre: adventure-games
Media: Video Game
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 4020628500818
ASIN: B0010SDDVY
Release Date: May 16, 2008
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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Nice job July 6, 2008
Graeme Carter (Ireland)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
In the context of all gaming, this is a three star game. In the context of other point and clickers that have come out recently, it is decidedly four star.
For starters, many of these games neglect graphics; happily, this is not the case with Rhodan. The anti-aliasing and texture options make it playable on older computers, and quite stunning on newer ones. A major part of creating the world a point and click gamer wants to be part of is making it realistic and immersive, and Rhodan certainly accomplishes this. Aurally, the music is apt, the voice acting is (mostly) believable and the sound effects are appropriate - they didn't just take random noises from the sound bank.
In a game of this type, certain things must be just so: The storyline, the settings, the puzzles, the characters and the humour are all majorly important. Rhodan delivers well on all of these fronts. An ancient mysterious race, a disappeared colleague, a variety of locales of the Rhodan universe including some new ones. The puzzles are worthy of special note; certain point and click games whom shall remain nameless are exasperating in that there is no logic to the puzzles. This is not the case here. The puzzles certainly become harder, and once or twice I found myself using the old "ask everyone everthing and use everything on everything" tactic. But when I figured the answer out, I always thought yeah, I should have gotten that really. The game actually chastises you for this type of thinking, as if to say we're better game-makers than that - if you use something on an item that makes no sense, Perry will occasionally say "And while we're trying things out, why don't I drill a hole in my knee and pour some milk in there?"
This game is better than the majority of the competition that has come out lately by a fair margin. Its major drawbacks are the length (although its not very short, a couple more locations would have been nice), and a few stability issues with Vista (but everything has those these days). It is a game you won't regret buying, and I for one very much look forward to a sequel.
Science fiction point and click game June 14, 2008
vh1967
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
The games story was classic science fiction which took me back to the journeyman series. The game was very exciting and was full of puzzles. It is a classic point and click and there were not any timed sequences or at least nothing that was challenging to do in time given. I gave it 3 stars for fun as the story and characterisation could have been deeper and there was a rushed feel about the ending, but 4 stars for being original in terms of most point and click games are not as 'out there' and this felt like they were trying to be original and it was not the usual girly type story nor was it predictable which was great. I would say next time (to the developers) don't rush the ending as we gamers notice and if its worth waiting for then do it even if it delays release date further.
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