![]() The treasure hunt riddles contain a lot of anagrams (words that when mixed up can spell other words) but are a lot easier to solve than the puzzles. The trick is to do it evenly with eight keys up and eight keys down. Silly us, the object is to get from 162 00 to 81 81 by raising and lowering the cash register keys. It seems we were thrown off by the display of 111 11 in the beginning of the game and thought that we were to add and subtract until we arrive at that number. I think we tried that one for about two hours before I had to stop my wife from throwing the CD-ROM out the window. Ok, let's try another one, a cash register puzzle. We must have tried switching the white and black horses (chess pieces) around for an hour before our patience wore out and tried a clue "change the position of the two white knights with two black knights." No sh**! Hint: This puzzle requires 40 moves. When we started playing 11th Hour we were intrigued by the video and 3-D graphics but then we hit the first puzzle. We had played 7th Guest before and got through about half of the puzzles without cheating. I got this game for my wife who is a big horror fan and likes to do crossword puzzles. Now keep in mind that I am not a big fan of puzzles. With all that praise for the multimedia capabilities of this disk, I didn't really have that great of an experience playing it. Death song is great with funny lyrics like "I can't take a bath, without Mr. After all the Fatman is to games what Mike Post is to television soundtracks. The audio is excellent and includes about 8 original songs from The Fatman who should be familiar to anyone into games. If you pick the right women at the end of the game you might get lucky and end up in a motel room with one of them. Later you get to see a woman in full leather bondage type gear. The player is treated to a brief flash of this cleavage early on in the introduction. ![]() My wife points out that they must have sent out for a casting call for the most busty B movie actresses to play Robin. The game is rated PG but at times it heads for PG-13 territory. It kind of sets up the feeling that you're going to play a genuine jerk for the rest of the game. She is in tears and Carl (you) doesn't seem to give a damn if she stays or goes. Some of the dialog is kind of strange like in a scene when your producer/lover is breaking up with you. The acting is on par with most CD-ROM movies these days (i.e. The four CD-ROMs contain about an hour of 30 frame per minute video (TV quality) which is very impressive. Playing 11th Hour is a real multimedia treat. This sets up the story for the next "hour." The recaps are dramatic screening of the story shown in its entirety with all missing content seen for the first time. Winning the challenge from Stauf allows you to view the events you've witness in their entirely. You can get three or four clues on each of these by hitting the help button on your "Game Book." The game is divided into "hours" and at the completion of each hour there is a final puzzle that involves matching wits with Stauf. These riddles involve plays on words and anagrams. The treasure hunt involves finding an object that Stauf gives clues or riddles about. You can get clues from your Techno-Psychic Ally but try to use it sparingly because if you rely on it two much in the beginning, you will use it up and not have any help later in the game. The puzzles are similar to the ones in 7th Guest, moving chess pieces, mazes, etc. The gameplay consists of two major types of games, puzzles and treasure hunts. She is trapped in the evil house! Now it is up to you to save her by entering the house and solving Staufs riddles. One day a strange "Game Book" arrives at your door. Robin, your producer/former lover was scouting out some mysterious murders that occurred around the old Stauf Mansion. You play Carl Denning, an investigative reporter for a TV show. If you remember from The 7th Guest, the evil toy maker Henry Stauf liked to grant twisted desires to his victims, well in the 11th Hour he grants your desire (for a sequel) and now he has come after you! Trilobyte was not planning to do a sequel but market forces demanded one. The 11th Hour is a sequel to the 7th Guest and takes place 70 years in the future. Gameplay involved trying to solve the puzzles with the reward of being able to see some more video effects. The original game combined high quality video effects with a creepy theme and devilishly difficult puzzles to solve. Being packaged with new computer systems certainly helped sales but it was the incredible video and sound effects that really caught the eye of the market what better CD-ROM to show off the powers of that new computer? ![]() ![]() When the 7th Guest was released in 1992, it became one of the first CD-ROM blockbusters. ![]()
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