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Egyptian Prophecy

4 stars (A Mystery Lies Waiting to be Uncovered) - From the game booklet: "The Story: At the age of 60, Ramses II, Pharoah is dying and does not wish to perish renouncing his magnificent kingdom. The supreme Egyptian god Amun-Re has agreed to grant him health and prolong his reign...but under the condition that Ramses reconstruct Amun-Re's temple, erecting the most colossal obelisk ever constructed by man, making his temple the most splendid humanity has ever seen." From the game booklet: "Objective: Suspicious accidents have been occurring at the worksite of the Temple of Amun-Re. As Maya, a young woman skilled as a magician and beloved of the gods, you are sent by Pharaoh to investigate and to ensure that the work is successfully completed. Your mission is connected to the fate of Egypt. Failure will lead to Pharaoh's death and the country's ruin." Minimum system requirements: Windows 98/ME/2000/XP 600 MHz Pentium III or equivalent (Recommend at least 800 MHz Pentium III) 64 MB RAM 16x CDROM Drive ( 24x CDROM recommended) 32 MB DirectX compatible 3D video card DirectX 7 compatible sound card I was concerned when the manual said "We suggest that you save your game often." I had no problems with the game crashing, so I must assume they were trying to save the player the frustration of replaying part of a scene if they should die. I found the game play quite enjoyable. The graphics and movies are nicely done and the dialogs were interesting. Objects were relatively easy to find, and sometimes Maya would even hint "This might be useful later". I sometimes get dizzy with 3D worlds where the mouse movements can get you spinning in multiple directions, but didnt have any trouble with this game. The puzzles involved challenges such as aligning tumblers in a lock to open a chest; gathering ingredients/objects to build another item; rearranging tiles to form an image; placing objects into the correct location; answering trivia questions; and countering black m...
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