Zork Nemesis - PC

PC kept crashing.

Thank You, Just what I ordered For.

Unless you have a very old computer or you are a techie genius just forget this one. Would love to have played it but could not get it to run.

With "Zork" in the title you'd expect the game to be set somewhere in the original Zork underground; but there are only passing comments about such places as "flood control dam #3" etc. I would have dissmised that as marketing if the game had been even half good, which it ain't. The graphics are ok, and the 360 deg scroll thing is nice, but in my opinion the Journyman #3 did a better job there. The one area that I'd give 4 stars to is the movie clips, pretty good. My main complaint though is that the story line sort of sucks... I'm a gammer not a soap junkie. The whole storyline smells of a really, really bad soap opra chliche. A tragic love story, an affair, murders... give me a break. And sticking severed heads on electrodes isn't my idea of ingenious puzzle content.

Pros=======> Neat story> Great, serious atmosphere> Straightforward puzzle solvingCons=======> At times, too easy> Runs poorly on modern computers (too fast)Other Thoughts================Modern processors cause the game to run far too quickly. You can't use the mouse to turn the player character. Instead, you must use the keyboard, which is much slower. Additionally, there are 2 brief moments in the game (bell tower & end game) that require you to time a mouse-click during a timed sequence. Modern computers will process this sequence in less than 1/100th of second, thus breaking the game. The only way to slow the sequence down enough to see the animation is to download a program that slows your CPU (I used CPU Killer). Even then, I found it difficult to time the mouse-clicks.

Bought it because it sounded really interesting. Never got it to run on my computer. Continuoslly locked up my system. Actually threw away the disc. Didn't feel it was worth wrecking my computer for.

Zork Nemesis game came out a little after the Myst bomb exploded. Myst brought us node based point and click adventure game. In the original Myst nodes were nothing more than statically pre-rendered scenes that mixed in video at certain points along the way.ZN took the Myst template and expanded on it. This was the first game (as I recall) to give you a 360 view at each node. You could pan all the way around to see everything. This innovation provided a level of immersion that really draws you in. This was one corner stone to this games success.As another reviewer noted, this is not even close to a typical Zork game. This game has some very dark themes and tones. This was another reason I was draw into it. It was unexpected. The layout of the story and separation of "worlds" felt right.Game play was terrific. There were a few extremely difficult puzzles to solve, but overall its difficulty was just right. The puzzles were themed and mostly made sense as they were presented.For me, the audio (music) in the game is what was perhaps the most memorable. It could be that it hit just the right note for me at my age or it really just worked well with the ambiance, allowing me deeper immersion.I still hold on to the discs to this day, even though it is not able to run on any of my machines any longer.I measure all other games in this genre against this one.

This game is all that I remember, and more. Even though (by today's standards), the graphics aren't all that dynamic, it is still a tried and true favorite of mine. Also, I expected a reasonably good quality product, it was almost mint condition with no scratches or signs of degradation. My hat is off to you all. I have never been a big online shopper, but Amazon.com has always been the way to go for me, I have never had an issue with this site.