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The Experiment
 
List Price: $29.99  Product Description: Ready for an experiment? In Experiment 112, you'll experience innovative-shared adventure across dilapidated ships, sweeping cliffs and across scenic coastlines. Mysteriously, you find yourself in the ship's operations room faced with a highly advanced panel of controls, surveillance monitors, and a wide array of sophisticated technology. As you watch the monitors for other signs of life, you discover a woman, Professor Lea Nichols, in a cabin connected to intravenous tubes. Unable to find a way to communicate with her directly, you realize that you are her only hope. She needs your help to escape her prison and get the medical help she desperately needs. The problem is, an unseen captor too is holding you prisoner. The only way to escape is to help one another. But who are you? Who is she? Why do you control both your fates? Is escape from this floating prison your only goal? Amazon.com: PC gamers, get ready for the next great Experience in Action and Adventure with The Experiment. Over sweeping cliffs and across scenic coastlines, this innovative shared adventure begins in the bowels of an old, dilapidated ship grounded ashore. Mysteriously, you find yourself in the ship’s operations room faced with a highly advanced panel of controls, surveillance monitors, and a wide array of sophisticated technology. As you scan the monitors frantically searching for answers to what this place is and why you are there, the only signs of life you have come across are a series of strange, curiously hard to identify animals, but then you see her; a woman.
Professor Lea Nichols is a research scientist in her thirties and could be described as beautiful if the strain of her situation wasn’t so etched into her features. As hard as you try you are unable to communicate with her, but it is clear she is being held captive by someone or something and wants help. The problem is, apparently you too are being held prisoner by an unseen captor. Soon you come to realize that the only way to escape is to help one another. But how and why is it that control over both your fates seems has been placed into your hands?Use the Tools You Have If you can discover a way to use the few tools tools you’ve been given (the surveillance system, an Intranet and other technologies) to Watch, Communicate, Search and eventually Take Control, you may both have a chance at escape. But remember that things are not always as they appear, even in the most controlled of experiments.Full Features:
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System Requirements:
| OS: | Windows® Vista™/XP | |
| Processor Speed: | 1.5 GHz Pentium® 4, AMD® Athlon® or equivalent | |
| RAM: | 512 MB (1 GB for Vista) or more | |
| Video: | MB Graphics Card, Supporting Vertex and Pixel Shader 1.1, Compatible with DirectX® 9.0c | |
| Hard Disk Space: | 1.4 GB of Free Space | |
Customer Reviews:
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Date: 2008-07-04
I also wish I could play this game
The game would not play. After investigating on the company website I found my video card was not sufficient even though it met the requirements stated on the box. Check company website to see if your card will work.
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Date: 2008-05-07
I wish I could play it!
I read all the great reviews about this game and purchased it, however, the mouse is so sluggish while the game is going that I can't even use it. I looked up this game on several forums and soon found out that I'm definitely not the only one with this problem. The answer I found was that people with this problem are told to wait for a 'patch' to fix the mouse issue. I just wish that I hadn't paid for a game I cannot play.
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Date: 2008-05-03
Better for real puzzle-oriented folk
I LOVE the concept -- that your PC is really part of the game. But for my taste there's too much moving windows around, and waiting for wots-her-name to move about. And the voice acting is pretty bad. I'm probably too much action-oriented -- more puzzle-loving players might love it. I'd put it somewhere between Tomb Raider 1 and Rhem for action.
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Date: 2008-03-23
Cool sophisticated but with a few minor flaws
Cool and so clever in many ways, but with a few flaws.
The Good. - Very clever interface, deeply immersive interesting interactive world. Nice realistic feel. Quite good deep puzzles. The science ship makes a cool interesting environment.
The Bad. Can be frustrating. Still mostly not that difficult. Puzzles could be deeper still. A few minor bugs - get caught in doors, one or two crashes (in same place). Puzzles can be somewhat rigid in order structure forcing you to wonder back and forth etc - but this is a very minor problem.
Overall I like this game a lot - very good.
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Date: 2008-02-26
Good games... after two fists full of hair pulled out
This game is definitely different than your typical collect your items, point and click adventure game. It tries to bring something new to the table. However, whether that "new" makes a good game or not, it's probably going to depend your patience level.
The game is somewhat original, has good writing, and its story is definitely mysterious enough to give you an urge of continue playing; so you can find out what this is all about (since, you don't even have a clue who the protagonist is at the beginning). There's also a lot of details to the game, I don't mean graphically (although they are pretty good), but about its characters and the technical enviroment the game takes place in; making it believable and interesting.
With all the good things said, there is one BIG problem. Which is the "new" I mentioned initially. "The Experiment" plays very differently than anything else we are use to; not just adventure games, but games in general.
First of all, Lea, the main charater you see in the game is not you (the protagonist). Your character commands her behind video cameras by utilising the enviroment around Lea. Confused? Or maybe even more interested? Yeah, that's pretty much going to decide whether you are going to like this game or not.
If you are interested behind the idea of playing almost like a voyeur, then you'll probably overlook the painful control scheme. The basic idea is that you look at Lea through the video cameras, and you tell her where to go, or what to do, by start operating on something around her; for example, the lights. As you progress in the game, you will learn more system functions in the compound that the game takes place in, therefore giving you greater control of the mechanical environment. Sounds fun? Right. Except the game makers didn't include an easy interface. There's too many controls and sub-controls, making the learning curve ridiculous. The camera angels don't help things either. You will struggle at times to choose the right view to see what Lea is doing, and where she should go next.
I know I probably wrote more about the control scheme than the actual contain within the game, but that's really what makes "The Experiment" unique. But it is an aquired taste. You will either enjoy the game due to this uniqueness, or hate it because of it.
