Tracker Finds a New Home
Reviewed by Ty Brewer
Published by H+A Interactive

Age Group: Age 4 to 8 Type: More Fun Price: $20.00

Description:

Tracker Finds a New Home takes the player through a house to "find what's wrong with this picture."

Well, there's not much else good to say about this title. Let's see, where shall I begin?

Features:

The game begins at the front door of a house and the player is supposed to wander through the house finding what is wrong. For example, perhaps the turkey in the oven is frozen instead of baked. Just click on the turkey, watch it bake, then go hunt for the next problem. Look! There is a tile loose on the floor! Click on the tile, watch it settle back in. Wow. This is more fun than putting your finger into a blender on high speed. Well, almost as fun.

Occasionally the player will find minor activities such as "place the season on the picture." Hmmmm. That was so interactive and engrossing, I just want to do it again and again (please note the sarcasm).

To be truthful, the game does have nice voices and good 3D graphics. To be more truthful, this isn't important because the gameplay was left on the editing room floor. Here's one: you use a cursor to click on where you want to go. Sometimes it works. Most of the time you must click some intermediate place before you can go to where you actually clicked. Sometimes you click to the left and nothing happens. Sometimes you click to the left and you rotate left. The fun, I guess, is trying to figure out when the controls actually behave consistently.

Technical Aspects:

I CAN'T STOP THIS CRAZY THING! What really bothers me about this game is the inability to quit. I tried "escape," ALT-F4, Alt-X, Alt-Q, Enter, Space, period, and finally, Ctrl-Alt-Delete. The last one worked.

I can't endorse any game that won't let you quit.

Report and Conclusions:

Please, don't buy this title. It is not a game, but undoubtedly the work of the son-in-law of the company owner who picked up Macromedia Director and some 3D authoring tool and decided to make a game on his father-in-law's dime. I don't understand how they managed to find a distributor for this title. This one goes in the trash after I perform scientific experiments on the CD (does it warp in the microwave? does it become brittle after a day in the freezer? does it resist scratching from steel wool?)

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