Why I buy this one ?
- Free-look movement system allows players to pan a full 360 at any location, fully immersing them in the world.
- 5 entirely new ages to explore.
- Dramatic storyline extends the Myst mythology by focusing on a pivotal new character.
- Puzzle solving, revealing mystery & intrigue.
- Original soundtrack.

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"Myst:: Exile to the world of nausea", I had only been playing the game for a few minutes when I got dizzy and had to stand over the toilet until the feeling of nausea left and I stopped feeling like I was going to blow my lunch out of this world. I played Myst and I thought it was really good. I tryed to play Riven but I coudn't get it to start, so i skipped ahead to Myst Exile. The way your cursor moves in the game sort of gives you the illusion that the screen is concave and the way you move about made me get motion sickness and i am fine on roller coasters. Though my stomach couldn't take it i will admit that the graphics are pretty good and plot line made sense and the concept of going to the other worlds is pretty cool. If you think you can stand it then i would recomend it.

"Stunning Myst Scenery with terrible plotline and unsatisfying ending", I'm a big fan of the Myst/Riven/Uru serries, but in myst 3 they tried to add an in-depth plotline with characters you couldn't interact with. The point is the characters and plot they added made the game seem korny. And Exile was painfully shrot. I think there were only three or four worlds. The game ended and I sat there wondering if I skipped something, I didn't. Out of all of them, Riven has been my favorite. It's a beast though, like 7 disks or something. Anyway, I didn't care for what they did with exile, and the reward for solving stuff wasn't that great either. I wanted to scream durring the bounce-the-sunlight-off-the-flowers puzzle!!! Myst V better not be the last installment, cause it was pretty lame too. The serries is great though.

"Excellent game, satisfying endings", I just re-played Exile, and have come to appreciate this game more than before. While it is an off-shoot of the Myst series, it is still an excellent game for many reasons.

The storyline makes sense, unlike some games I've played. Poor Saavedro- you can't help but feel sorry for the guy. Those hoodlum sons of Atrus ruined Saav's world- he's lost everything, including his wife and small daughters...and he's out for revenge. To do this, he steals a linking book to another world, hoping Atrus will chase after him. Luckily, it is you who ends up in the chase- and the game.

Saav takes you through the uninhabited worlds Atrus created to teach his sons. Once you solve the worlds and collect what you need, you can then access Saav's homeworld. Along the way, we see pictures depicting the boys' atrocities (nothing gross or graphic) and videos he made, telling us about the horrors he's been through.

Basically, there are 5 areas, however the 5th one is much smaller and is where the game ends. From the main area, you will solve puzzles to access different worlds. And, there's plenty to keep you busy.

The puzzles are medium to hard, however they make sense- much more than most of the new games that have come out since Exile. Several are devilishly hard, I'll admit, but not impossible. I completed the game several years back without a walkthrough- something I rarely do with more modern games. Most experienced gamers won't need more than a prod or 2, in the more difficult puzzles.

The 3 teaching worlds you visit are impressive. My favorite is Armateria- a huge pinball machine. Thunder, lightning, blue glowing crystals at sunset...great mood setters. Too, when the crystal balls smash apart (because you don't have the puzzle set correctly) they explode into wonderful shards that fly everywhere! And, the ride when you've solved Armateria is well worth the effort.

The graphics are lovely and do not disappoint. There's good detail and nice use of color. There is one area that is rather dark and can be confusing due to all the foliage. Still, it is not that difficult to find your way. I like the 360* view. If this makes you dizzy, right click to hold the picture, then point and click to move.

The voice work is excellent and actors are used, not CG figures. That really makes a difference, in my opinion. The actor portraying Saavedro does a fantastic job as the half-crazed antagonist. The other 2 characters are Atrus and Katherine, both performed well. There's good use of costumes and staging, too.

The music and sound effects fit nicely and do not distract from the game. There's lapping water sounds, wind, insects, etc., that add richness to each setting.

The ending is very satisfying. All too often now, games have really poor endings. Exile has several and you should try EVERY possible combination of actions you can think of. There's at least 4. Be sure to save to that you can reload and try them all!

Exile has no foul language, inappropriate behavior, or violence. One heartless ending even carries with it an admonishment from Atrus.

Exile is certainly worth playing. Take your time, wander, take notes...and enjoy.

"Great graphics, but that's about it", I will be one of the few people to write a negative review about this game. I tried to play this game several times, and all to no avail because it made me dizzy and nauseous, literally -- due to the way the graphics were constructed. Yes, the graphics are very well done and colorful. But as you move through the realm in 1st person, you have to constantly click through the land, go back and forth, clicking to look around in all directions, which gets annoying after a while. It seems like the very point of this game is to only look around. While the game encourages a real-world feel in the 1st person perspective, you cannot easily turn your head to look around, so you have to click away. This game offers a 360 degree panning option, where you can look in all directions with "more ease". But this just makes matters worse because the view constantly sways back and forth as you move the cursor and it made me dizzy. It's the same feeling as when you're trying to read while in a car.

And besides that, the gameplay is lonely. I found no satisfaction going through a colorful fantasy world with no one to talk to, looking at everything but not being able to examine and trying by myself to figure out what all those creatures and objects were. When playing a game, I prefer a more realistic environment. Anybody can "make up a world" if they use their imagination. But it's more difficult, I think, to create something closer to reality that's involving and realistic.

"too easy",
Compared to Riven, EXILE was simple. Maybe the authors wanted to ease up after stumping the world with Riven's super hard puzzles. Answers in EXILE required searching rather than logic.The key was in finding things rather than figuring things out. But we liked the crazy guy. He made us laugh. He was nuts and had a permanent bad hair day. May he rot forever.

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"Amazing graphic, frustrating game play", Myst 3 is, I think, the hardest and most frustrating game I have seen in my life. NO REACTION is the main aspect of the game. The game does not give any clue about the function of elements. The pseudo-3D gaming interface is confusing, and the graphics are not adapted for a LCD screen. Many places appear dark, for example in Anateria. LCD screens are more and more widely-used, and many people, including me, have no room for a CRT. When everything is dark, this shows that the game does not exploit all the color space offered by the monitor, which is annoyingly bad.
Many times I try to move somewhere I think I could could, nothing happens. I sometimes have to click many times at many places to be able to move.
In continuity with Myst and Riven, there are plenty of almost unreadable hand-written journals that bring almost nothing to help solving puzzles. I do not care at all about the mental process Atrus went through to design Releishan. All I want to know is how to find back this damned linking book, and for this, I have to go through three Ages, Anateria, Voltaic and Edana.
Music and sound are good but totally helpless for finding clues. In many cases, for example the vibrating ring in Anateria, sound is omnidirectional while directed sound could allow for finding the source of the noise. The designer of the game may have assumed that most people have no 3D-capable sound card. However, there is more people equipped with 3D sound cards than people with 3D graphic cards, and nowadays, any sound card can do DirectSound3D.
It seems that the game hardly depends on a third-party hint book. This hint book should be included with the game, at least in PdF version.
In conclusion, great graphics, great music, great sound, but very bad and annoying game play. I am considering about giving up before ending the game.

"Its not the same...", I loved playing Myst and Riven, and when i was playing those games it was all i thought about, and i was obsessed untill i beat them. This game did not give me the same experience, and i think ive figured out why. What made Myst and Riven so great was the magnitude of the puzzles, the fact that the clues were scattered all over the islands and you had to piece them together and suddenly theyd click together in your mind in that moment that makes the game worth playing for us. Myst Exile did not have these kinds of puzzles, instead theyve moved to a more, "do this puzzle and when your finished do this one" the puzzles are very self contained even to the point where each age has about 3 puzzles to beat then your done and you never need to go back. It lacks the cohesiveness of the past games and because of this you cant get into it like you could those. Other reviews here have said that the game "lost the magic" and i think this puts it very well. On the other hand, the game is not necessarily bad, and i did enjoy playing it most of the time. Its not a bad game, but if your going into it expecting the quality youve come to expect from the series, then you are going to be dissapointed.

"So real you're almost there.", I've had Myst III for almost 4 years. Yes, it's taken me that long to finish it. But it sure is a wonderful game. In terms of graphics, Riven was a simple step up from Myst. But Myst III adds a whole new level of realism to the franchise.

The main new feature is that you can look anywhere you want in any direction withing the photo-realistic worlds when before you could only look at a limited amount of certain things. These worlds are empty but beautiful to look at and have an eerie, ghostly atmosphere to them. The graphics are so convincing that the roller-coaster ride in the middle of the game will make you feel like you're really there. Not only do the graphics stand out but sound effects pan across the sound-field when you spin around and wind whistles between the rocks.

The story involves the maniacal sons of Atrus (that would be Sirrus and Achenar) continuing to wreak havoc through-out the ages. They have destroyed a world known as Narayan and left sole-survivor in exile on the island of J'Nanin. This man is Saavedro (Brad Dourif), who ultimately blames Atrus for his sons going off the deep end.

Atrus (played by Rand Miller as always) calls upon you to go to J'Nanin and find Saavedro, who has stolen Atrus new age Raleeshan. Saavedro traps you into going through many different worlds, unlocking secrets, finding clues and seeing for yourself what Sirrus and Achenar did to Narayan. Each world has a different look from the last but still retains that spooky feeling no matter if your in a swamp, caverns, beach or mountaintop.

But still, the most impressive thing about Myst III is Jack Wall's brilliant score, which is simultaneously haunting, beautiful, dark and Gothic. He seamlessly blends magical with choral and gives us a highly thematic score with surpasses that of most big-budget movies. Definitely the best score a video-game has ever known. And that's a pretty big statement.

I got the Limited Collector's Edition of this game which comes with the score CD (now very hard to find and very expensive) a 'making of' CD, the Prima Official Strategy Guide and lots of other inserts. The game (at the time of this certain publishing) was spread over 4 discs and it became very annoying switching between them all. I minor quibble though.

Overall, I highly recommend Myst III, it's not just a game, it's a journey.

"great", It's a great game with great puzzles. But use a CD-Rom not a CD
writter or it could seriously damage your computer.

"MYST DID IT AGAIN (for me at least)", If you liked the previous two installments of the Myst series, you won't be disappointed with this one. Graphics are far better than in the previous versions (which was to be expected). The only real downside for me, was the fact that the puzzles were much easier, than in the Riven. It could be because of the experience I've gained by playing parts 1 and 2, or simply I got smarter since I've played Myst and Riven a few years ago. It took me two evenings after work, to beat Myst Exile, but I do hold a graduate engineering degree, and the game's puzzles seem to be geared towards people with technical background. A bit of creative thinking, also helps. I refuse to use walkthroughs - it really defeats the purpose of the game, and devalues the whole experience - there's nothing more rewarding than being able to solve some convoluted puzzle on your own - the longer it takes the better the sense of accomplishment. Whenever I get stuck, I simply take some time off, and return to the game later on, with a fresh mind. Whenever you're faced with a difficult puzzle, don't even try proceeding without some pencil and paper in front of you. Play around with the controls, try to figure out the relationships, try to understand what you're trying to accomplish. Sketch things out, write down everything that seems important - if something seems funny - record the amount of 'funny'. It's almost like trying to reverse-engineer somebody else's product - but in the end, this approach, has always worked for me. I've just ordered Myst IV Revelations, and right after that I'm going to order The entire URU series, because I've read a number of reviews, stating that the puzzles in there are bordering on the impossible to solve (especially in the Path of the Shell) - that is exactly what I'm looking for - the longer I'm stuck on a puzzle, the more gameplay I'm getting for my money...