~Lost Eden (CD)
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Animated Adventure by CRYO/VIRGIN
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Reviewed by Lu Richardson



I was so impressed with Dragon Lore, also by Cryo/Virgin, that all 
it took was a brief glimpse at a demo of Lost Eden to make me go for 
it.

Indeed, the graphics, animation and sound were as totally brilliant 
as I knew they would be and, although not terribly fond of it, the 
interface was not too bad.

The game started excitingly enough - in any case you are so in awe 
of the scenery that you don't notice much else.  At any rate, 
looking around the Citadel and solving the first few puzzles was 
quite enthralling.  And then play really started.

Well, I've seen some daft games in my day, but this one takes the 
biscuit.  Imagine a scenario mainly peopled with dinosaurs, some
fluent in English, others quite unable to manage even Mancunian.  
Add to them some other rather queer folks, and I bet you'll be as 
out of focus as I am.

It seems dinosaurs and men got along quite well, forgive the 
anachronism, till some rather nasty T. Rexes came along and made 
life difficult for everyone.  Your task is to rally against them all 
the good Reptilians (and anyone else who cares to join in), thus 
ensuring survival for all.

You travel from location to location, exploring each one and doing 
daffy things such as feeding empty nests to triceratops.  Various 
complications arise which aliviate somewhat the monotony of play, 
but all the same you keep saying to yourself, sotto voce, what AM I 
doing?  And also, I wonder what's on the telly?

So, awesome as the graphics are, stupendous as the animation is, 
grandious as the game looks, don't fall for it.  I'm all for 
originality and an interesting plot but, really, I guarantee that 
you'll feel pretty silly pandering to Velociraptors, Aquasaurus and 
Doyouthinkeesaurus.  Not to mention holding serious conversations 
with earnest Pterodactyls.  All right if you like looking at pretty 
pictures, but a dead loss as an adventure.  


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