Atlantis Evolution | 
| From: Dreamcatcher Interactive
List Price: $29.99
Buy New: $0.01
New (22) Used (9) from $0.01
Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 12482
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Xp
Genre: Strategy Games
ESRB: Rating Pending
Media: CD-ROM
Number Of Items: 1
Operating System: Windows 2000
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 8 x 5.3 x 1.8
Model: PCO40350MB
UPC: 625904403506
EAN: 0625904403506
ASIN: B0000A345L
Release Date: October 19, 2004
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Epic first-person adventure game featuring character and plot development | | • | Interact with a cast of more than 30 unique characters including Atlantian people and gods | | • | 5 main universes with more than 20 different environments to explore | | • | Provocative and unique puzzle challenges | | • | Musical score and ambient sounds created by the award-winning Atlantis 1 & 2 / Beyond Atlantis I & II composer |
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Product Description
Atlantis: Evolution takes players through a vortex of possibility, where advanced graphics and strange puzzles immerse you in a strange new world. It's1904 when a young photographer gets shipwrecked and sucked into a whirlpool. Plunging into the city of Atlantis, he's a foreigner in this world of ancient technology and devout religion. Labeled as a "deviant", he's swept into a revolution, as Atlanteans move to overthrow their gods.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 2 more reviews...
 Nice graphics, entertaining story, arcade-style "puzzles" February 16, 2005
G. D. Schlotterbeck (Acton, CA)
20 out of 20 found this review helpful
This is not your typical puzzle-based adventure game. Most of the puzzles were classic arcade-style or brain teaser games that had little to do with the story. (Pong?)
What I liked about the game is that it truly was an interactive story, and one that held my interest. I also liked that the viewing control inside the world was 360/3D. You still moved from point to point, though. I found it similar to Myst III in that respect. I also thought the plot line, cut scenes, and characters had merit.
The main issue I had with this game was the situations where you could "die" if you didn't move quickly enough and know exactly what to do. It's a bit stressful for someone who doesn't like shoot-em-up action games. However, the game is also forgiving in that it restarts you fairly close to where you died, so not much time is wasted repeating things as in some other games like this.
I played this entire game in about 6-7 hours one Sunday afternoon.
Cool graphics but not much else! December 21, 2004
Kristy M. (New York, NY)
13 out of 15 found this review helpful
I bought this game thinking it would be a lot like Myst, and it is. It's got amazing graphics (though not above and beyond everything else out there) and some good puzzle solving, but the game was really short and lots of it was pretty annoying.
So much of it was just wandering around through mazes trying to figure out what the heck still needing doing (invariably it was picking up some stick that looked like part of the landscape). And it only took me a few days to beat it and I wasn't really playing for more than a few hours a day.
There are better strategy games out there for the price I think. I was pretty disappointed with this game.
Pretty Good Graphics, Little Else July 9, 2005
B. E. Taylor (Exeter, New Hampshire United States)
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
Bought this game on strength of belief that it just might be an interesting continuation of the Atlantis series of games. Well, it definitely had an interesting premise, but as for "enjoyment", NOT. I am NOT a fan of action, shoot-em up or get killed type of game. I play games for relaxation and fun. In these categories, this did not do it. For me, whole game was periods which I would FINALLY get through, alternated with sequences of pure tedium. In the former, I would almost find myself shaking with tension; in the latter, only shear determination would do it.
Did find the arcade sections more annoying than engaging, and I'm a veteran of "Schizm's" computer games from hell. At least the games in "Schizm" had SOME relation to the overall plot. These didn't really.
"Beyond Atlantis" (a/k/a Atlantis 2) is STILL the best of the lot. Having spent as much money on this game, I WAS determined to get through it, otherwise, there are much better games out there.
Either buy it used, or just save your money.
 Disappointed but not surprised. July 29, 2005
Joseph Cocovich (San Jose, CA USA)
7 out of 12 found this review helpful
I am a fan of adventure games that are truly adventures where you explore, make use of what you find, and engage in conversations with interesting characters to obtain clues. Many games fit this bill and I enjoyed all of them. Some of them even instill emotion and involvement with the story like a good novel. I've never read a novel where I had to play an arcade game or solve a meaningless puzzle to get to the next chapter.
For those developers and publishers (the same names keep appearing) who just do not have the creativity or expertise to create these good adventure games, "puzzles", "mazes", idiotic "side games" , etc. are believed to make their game "good". I feel more a sense of accomplishment by studying clues and using tools ('ya know...duh sorta like in real life??) than shooting some programmer's vision of a "monster" and jumping over mountains or trying to figure out how different colored shapes fit together to open a freaking door. How lame is that crap?
I am sure there are a lot of gamers who like that sort of mindless, reactionary, tedium perhaps because that is all they know how to do.
Fall's Short February 21, 2006
J. Carpenter (Tampa, FL)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
*Review based on Demo*
Poor voice acting, bad script, falls short in so many ways.
I wanted to like this game, but it was dull and uncreative. Just a bad production altogether. I wouldn't pay more than $5 for this game. At that price I might be able to stomach it's inadequacies.
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