Hidden Mysteries: Civil War

[h1]The Tiniest Hidden Objects You'll Ever See (Or Not)[/h1] Despite the terrible hidden object scenes, I played the game through to the end because I was intrigued by the history of not only the battles, but of the three main characters in the game storyline as well. The character storylines are quite good and very convincing, leading me to believe that these were real people who actually fought in the American Civil War. More on that in a bit. [b]PROS:[/b] -Historical information about battles, locations, and generals. Everytime you finish a hidden object "battle", you get a little history lesson about the specific battle and which side won the battle, or whether it was a draw. -Storyline. All three main characters have great storylines. The further you progress in the game, the more information you unlock about them. -Decoding letters. This part of the game is actually fun, way more fun than the hidden object scenes. However, it's just too easy. Some of the code letters look almost identical to the encoded letters themselves. There's also overly dramatic music that only plays during these letter decoding sequences, which would seem better suited for a boss fight. [b]CONS:[/b] -Tiny, & I mean [b]TINY[/b] low-res hidden objects on low-res backgrounds. In one scene in particular, some of the hidden objects are no bigger than a pixel or two. -Hidden objects totally irrelevant for the time period. I've seen this before in other HOG's, and normally it doesn't bother me, but this is a game about a major historical event. Cassette tapes? Car keys? Even a space invader? Come on, this really detracts from gameplay immersion. -Falsified history. I assumed that the three characters were real people, it turns out they were fictional. None of the three characters in this game existed, which is fine, but... [b]***SPOILER ALERT[/b][spoiler]...when a fictional game character prevents Lincoln's assassination attempt by Booth, this really ruined the whole game for me. So yeah, you heard me right, in this game Lincoln survives his assassination. Alternate history? No mention of this is given in the game description. I'm not sure why the dev thought it was a good idea to re-write history for the sake of this game, it really added nothing to the story, in my opinion.[/spoiler][b]SPOILER ALERT***[/b] [b]BOTTOM LINE:[/b] Hidden Mysteries: Civil War fails spectacularly as a hidden object game. However, the character storylines and the historical information do add some interest to the game. Unfortunately, some of the historical information is extremely inaccurate. It's definitely not worth full price, probably not worth the 75% off I got it for. Avoid this one.

I cannot give this game a good review due to the lack of resolution choices , like none at all . The " Run in windowed mode " is the choice you have . The game screen size is only a fraction of my tv screen .. so being a search and click game I cannot see it to play . What a shame ... was looking forward to this as well . Ahh well ... another one to the uninstalled bin .

Hidden Mysteries: Civil War allows you to follow the fate of three persons during the Civil War that divided USA. What happened to the general? Or to that convinced Confederate soldier? Or to the poor soldier that is more romantic than wanting to fight for his country? Hidden Mysteries: Civil War belongs to the old era of hidden objects games, where you have only scenes to investigate, to find X numbers of this item or find the whole list of it. Some minigames are also included. However, like any game from that time, objects are hard to find because being merged with the background or being very tiny. As you may know, I'm not thumbing down games because they're not adapted to our current days. But here, what a boring game! Mystery P.I. and Mystery Cases Files had at least something that made play for more. Puzzles were more challenging or hidden objects scenes were a little more interesting. Even trying to follow these three people wasn't what I've expected. I hate using hints, but here, I was always on a thin line with having none, meaning that I had an hard time to see the objects (even if it's an old-school game, it's not really adapted for every sight). Besides, on my laptop, the game wasn't even running smoothly, it was slow... The graphics are acceptable for a game that was released in 2008. The soundtrack was... well, it wasn't something that struck me. Anyway, I suppose that I would have been bored if I've played it back then. Indeed, I've played other similar games back then and when I replayed them, I still found myself enjoying then. People used to the new evolution of hidden object games will be annoyed with this game and as a veteran, my excitement to play it was quickly turned into disappointement. But the biggest reason for the thumb down is the current price of 10 bucks. It would have been lower, I would have been probably leaning towards a thumb up, though I'm not sure that I would have done, given the fact that I didn't really enjoy the game. Now, I'll wait for a discount for Titanic. I've played the game on DS and it was a very enjoyable adventure. However, I know that the PC version was lacking of some content on DS.

[h1]Short version: 51%[/h1] The Hidden Mysteries series has always felt a little outdated even at their release, and Civil War is no exception. If you enjoy really ancient hidden object game mechanics, you may like this one, but this is as far as its shelf value goes. [h1]Long version:[/h1] Gunnar Games is hardly known for their outstanding games; they are more like the kind of studio that earns its wages with products just above the tolerable quality level. The second game in their Hidden Mysteries series, Civil War – Secrets of the North & South, is such a product. Unless you like ancient hidden object games, you won’t find any enjoyment in this one. If you never saw one of these… well, get ready to search for 3-5 pixel wide objects on a grainy, 1024×768 background. (And believe it or not, this was the standard back then.) Since I’ve been playing these games for almost a decade now, the graphics weren’t too problematic, but the writing was. This game tries to sell itself as some sort of historical trivia on the American civil war, yet it is more like a Lincoln-groupie history major’s wet dream fanfic. If you like your historical facts, this is not the game you are looking for.

The Civil War seems like an odd setting for a hidden object game, given that a mass bloodshed fought over slavery might be a little too grave a subject to broach in the genre of 'finding nonsense in a field'. Hidden Mysteries: Civil War does nothing to dispel this notion. Mostly because it is one of the worst offenders when it comes to randomly throwing nonsense all over a screen with no consideration of theme, colour, gravity, relative size, or transparency. Hidden Mysteries is nothing but two hours of the developers shoving random items into the place where they'll be the least visible, then using whatever tricks they can to jack the difficulty just a little bit higher, like turning items invisible and really stretching the definition of certain words. Criteria 1: To what degree do the puzzle screens look like a thrift store vomited on my monitor? This might as well be the definition of that particular flaw. Every screen is a passably-rendered image representing a battle from the Civil war, which then has been covered with a hundred pieces of random clip art. It's difficult to express how difficult these screens are to beat - primarily because of their tiny size. I played this game in an obscenely stretched out fullscreen mode (it was originally made for 4:3 monitors) on a 32" screen, and I was still barely able to make out some of the items. I can only imagine how impossible this was on small, blurry monitors of the past. A recharging hint button would have at least made the game playable for everyone, but for some reason - even in the so-called 'Casual' mode - the developers set a hard three-hint limit for each of the game's stages, making them an incredible chore to beat. Criteria 2: Are the searches justified by the premise/story? There is no premise/story to speak of, beyond a few letters offering backstory on the few characters that the game nominally follows over the course of the war. Beyond that, the player is just cleaning up anachronistic/nonsensical garbage from America's historic battle sites. Criteria 3: How well do the various puzzles and object searches meld together to form a coherent whole? The only puzzles are a few 'decoding' puzzles that involve using basic reading comprehension to replace symbols with letters - and these have nothing to do with the object searches. There's an alternate history background story happening, where somebody's searching for a lost Mayan treasure, and a separate character manages to save Lincoln's life at Ford's theatre, but the searches are so random and unrelated to anything else going on that it's impossible for the game to build any sort of a narrative, leaving the player feeling like they're being asked to perform an arbitrary task just to unlock the next page of story text. Absolutely the opposite of integrated puzzle and HOG design. Hidden Mysteries: Civil War is a bad example of a bad period in the genre, when developers would throw together a few screens that barely constituted them, then packaged them into a game. Hidden Object Games have come a long when since games like Civil War, and it's a perfect example of why it was so important for them to do so.

So in my masochism I beat this game. Don't be like me, save yourself the bother. I like hidden object games but I've never bothered reviewing one before as they are all much of a muchness. There are hidden objects to find, you find them, in a nice casual way to kill a bit of time. Not this one. Sure, there are hidden objects, a lot of them, but these ones are often tiny, or blend into a dark part of the background, and are just a pain to find. So just use the hints you say. Sure. You get three hints per stage, a stage is made up of multiple hidden object scenes, so you have to use them sparingly. To get more, you have to play minesweeper. Seriously. I ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ hate minesweeper. So I was stuck with my three hints. I ended up just randomly clicking on the screen to try and find the objects. And if you beat this game, this purportedly historical game about the civil war (oh wait the store page calls it a 'reenactment'. There's no mention of this in the game) you get rewarded with a lolworthy bit of alternative history. Overall, don't bother.

[h1] Genre [/h1] Ein Kurzes Hidden Object Adventure über den Bürgerkrieg [h1] Gameplay [/h1] Es ist ein "OK" Spiel, also nichts besonderes. Teilweise sind die Gegenstände so klein dargestellt das man sie kaum sehen kann. Es gibt 5 Kapitel und man hat Pro Kapitel jeweils 3 Tipps zur Verfügung, diese lassen sich allerdings durch ein "Mineswepper" Minispiel wieder aufladen. Zwischendurch bekommen wir immer wieder Informationen über den Amerikanischen Bürgerkrieg [h1] Pro/Contra [/h1] + Musik ganz OK - Einige Objekte sind sehr Klein dargestellt [h1] Fazit [/h1] Wer Wimmelbild Spiele mag, wird auch dieses mögen, aber ich würde nicht unbedingt 4,99€ ausgeben dafür, sondern warten bis es richtig tief fällt, so 80-90% off, dann kann man ruhig zuschlagen 👑 Powered by HoI 4 Deu Kuratorengruppe auf deutsch/englisch 👑⠀⠀⠀🎉 [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/30388691/] Folgen [/url]

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Alright, I am no stranger to Mystery P.I. games... Which is what this reminds me of... BUT... I can't freaking see anything! Even on the Full Screen everything is so... So TINY! WAH! And the lag... I am patient... But man... I don't know how to find majority of the items if they are smaller than an atom. EH!