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| From: Dreamcatcher Interactive
Category: Video Games
List Price: $29.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 5252
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows Xp
ESRB: Teen
Media: CD-ROM
Batteries Included: No
Age: 12 - 20 years
Operating System: Windows 2000
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 0 x 0.1 x 0.1
MPN: pco54850mb
Model: PCO54850MB
UPC: 625904548504
EAN: 0625904548504
ASIN: B000NKNB4Y
Release Date: February 5, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Condition: BRAND NEW & FACTORY SHRINK WRAPPED-I SHIP 6 DAYS A WEEK VIA, USUALLY SAME DAY!!!
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| • | Explore every corner of the eerie dilapidated ship scouting the path. | | • | Unlock a powerful story revealed through vivid flashbacks and shocking plot twists. | | • | Guide Lea's actions while confined in the locked operations room, to determine the fate of both characters. | | • | Characters possess independent attitudes, notions and fears -- build trust with them to overcome human and environmental challenges. | | • | Employ high-tech surveillance equipment to solve ingenious puzzles - Ship intranets, 3D rotation cameras, light intensifiers, heat detectors, thermal vision and more |
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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.Help Yourself by Helping Her
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:- Unlock a powerful story revealed through vivid flashbacks and shocking plot twists.
- Each character has independent attitudes, notions, and fears requiring you to build trust with the other character and overcome human and environmental challenges.
- As Lea's extended eyes and ears, explore every corner of the eerie ship scouting the path ahead for unseen dangers and enemies.
- Strategically employ high-tech surveillance equipment to solve ingenious puzzles including: the ship's Intranet, full 3D rotation cameras, light intensifiers, heat detectors, thermal vision, and even cameras on remote control vehicles.
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Explore the odd creatures.
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System Requirements: | Minimum 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 |
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?
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| Customer Reviews: Read 5 more reviews...
The Experiment September 11, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Here you have to manage around by loocking through a camera and this is an experiement by it self. It is confusing and it is very easy to loose contol of your wherabouth. Most of the places are too dark. There are some very difficult riddles and I believe the game would be more fun and interresting if you where allowed to walk around in the rooms yourself than to control another person. The grapic is excelent with a lot of places to go so i believe there are many who would love this game because of that. The story is also very good. I would have rated it higher if I was allowed to search the rooms by myself.
 One of the most immersive games ever made. September 8, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The Experiment is one of the most unique and immersive games ever made. Any other stand-alone product pales in comparison to this game's ability make you feel like part of the story.
Coming from Lexis Numerique, a veteran developer of alternate-reality games (the sort of game that calls your real-life computer or IM account ala' murder-mystery role-playing), The Experiment puts you in the role of yourself, using the security interface of a mysterious ship-borne laboratory, guiding a survivor through the ruins to find out what the hell happened to everybody.
All you can do is operate the ship's computers, using security cameras to keep up with Lea, your companion, reading files and personal emails to find passwords and puzzle solutions, and flashing nearby lights or objects to draw Lea's attention. Unable to speak or communicate directly to your charge, you have to "nod" a camera to answer yes-or-no questions.
Unfortunately, the lenses are smudged a little. The interface takes a while to get used to, and the translation has a few potentially puzzle-breaking mistakes. Keep a walkthrough bookmarked in case you get stuck. It's also a challenging adventure game, so it might not appeal to some Halo-trained run-and-gun enthusiasts. Still, if you've ever loved adventure games, good writing, or unique gameplay concepts, you owe this game a try. Demos are available at the website.
 Not my cup of tea August 17, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
No, this is definitely not the typical point and click adventure games. You aren't actually even moving a character...you basically control a ship and the main character moves through the ship as you turn on lights and open doors for her. The interface is strange, with an overabundance of separate windows that exist on your screen, including the cameras you are controlling. I found this game to be frustrating and cumbersome, with none of the actual interesting aspects of adventure games, such as exploring an area, solving puzzles, interacting with characters, and beautiful scenery/graphics.
 Extremely annoying interface July 20, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
If you want enjoyable game play with interesting visuals do not play this game. If you like to figure out how to program your new television or other software set up, then you might like this game. It's very cumbersome to try and get the main character to go/do want you want. You have to move a alot of windows around to see anything at all. Not fun at all. Very slow paced.
I also wish I could play this game July 4, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
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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