Okay, so I forgot to pre-write the review, luckily I was less busy than I thought I was going to be. So apparently in the mid 90s MECC hit it's mark and PC games were suddenly the big IT item rather than the MS-DOS games, it's just a shame that they didn't give Museum Madness a PC or Hybrid CD release, TLC could have remade the game but put the Cluefinders in there.
Gameplay and Story: The United States in the Mid 1800s' ours is a large nation full of restless forward looking people, as the population grows and the borders expand....nah I'm not going to do the intro it'll take awhile, it's the same concept as the original game except it's really expanded, really really expanded, I'll explain, this does still offer the usual stuff including hunting.
Graphics: Well this game got a better budget than the original one did as in this game we get digitized actors rather than still portraits of people with thought bubbles and a play button if we want to hear them speak the dialogue in the thought bubbles, but the mouth movement here is kind of weird. We travel by map (as the muppets would put it) and the map goes away once we get somewhere.
Soundtrack: The Soundtrack is slightly the same but this time there aren't any vocals there are different iterations of Wayfaring stranger as well as tracks we didn't hear in the previous game (like Go Tell Aunt Rhoadie? or is it Rhody? it's either that or Jodie). The Background travelling music does change once in awhile, like there's one where you are almost there.
Addictive: I first played this on a Windows XP and well I had no idea that it wouldn't work that well on the machine, I wouldn't see the river crossing, I mean it's more fun on a Windows 98 virtual machine (I recommend VMWare by the way).
Depth: This game offers ALOT more than the original one did, there are other places we can go to other than Oregon City, we can go to the Rouge River Valley, Sacramento, Williamette Valley, and Salt Lake City, it offers alot more stops to do and there is a small extra, if you purchase fishing equipment from the stores you can fish if you stop near a river. And You can buy nails as well (essential for if a wagon part breaks) also they offer alot more to buy at the store, you can buy winter clothing as well as canteens and water kegs because...we can die of thirst in this game, it does give us an opportunity to travel through the desert. Also we can go in different time periods, we can travel between 1840-60 I guess it all stopped when the Civil War started? we can visit the Whitman Mission before the well Measles outbreak. You can do a quick start mode (where a majority of the essentials are already purchased) or you can basically decide everything, how many people are joining you, their ages (yes ages!) your occupation, your destination, and the starter packages, and there are no limits as to how much you can purchase. By the way if you do go to Sacramento at a certain time you can pan for Gold, which is ironic because before this game was released they did release the Yukon Trail in 1994 which is well, a game where you head to the Klondike to strike it rich, I'll review that one day.
Difficulty: Well this does offer alot more, in this game you really have to watch Morale, and depending on what level you are playing at, if you are an advanced player and the morale is low, your butt will doomed, granted it hasn't happened to me, I know for sure the Morale and the Desert crossing did get me the first few times I played.
Post review Follow-up: It's a darn shame that the games after this one don't offer (well sort of but Oregon Trail 5 is basically a remake of this game, I haven't played it though, I've watched gameplay of it though but I am keeping my eye out for it) the same things but then again considering what we get in the 3rd edition I can probably see why. This game is definitely better than the previous entry though.
This concludes my review, tomorrow will be the end of the Summer Tour De Vizzed so my final review of the event will be Oregon Trail 3rd edition Pioneer Adventures. Okay, so I forgot to pre-write the review, luckily I was less busy than I thought I was going to be. So apparently in the mid 90s MECC hit it's mark and PC games were suddenly the big IT item rather than the MS-DOS games, it's just a shame that they didn't give Museum Madness a PC or Hybrid CD release, TLC could have remade the game but put the Cluefinders in there.
Gameplay and Story: The United States in the Mid 1800s' ours is a large nation full of restless forward looking people, as the population grows and the borders expand....nah I'm not going to do the intro it'll take awhile, it's the same concept as the original game except it's really expanded, really really expanded, I'll explain, this does still offer the usual stuff including hunting.
Graphics: Well this game got a better budget than the original one did as in this game we get digitized actors rather than still portraits of people with thought bubbles and a play button if we want to hear them speak the dialogue in the thought bubbles, but the mouth movement here is kind of weird. We travel by map (as the muppets would put it) and the map goes away once we get somewhere.
Soundtrack: The Soundtrack is slightly the same but this time there aren't any vocals there are different iterations of Wayfaring stranger as well as tracks we didn't hear in the previous game (like Go Tell Aunt Rhoadie? or is it Rhody? it's either that or Jodie). The Background travelling music does change once in awhile, like there's one where you are almost there.
Addictive: I first played this on a Windows XP and well I had no idea that it wouldn't work that well on the machine, I wouldn't see the river crossing, I mean it's more fun on a Windows 98 virtual machine (I recommend VMWare by the way).
Depth: This game offers ALOT more than the original one did, there are other places we can go to other than Oregon City, we can go to the Rouge River Valley, Sacramento, Williamette Valley, and Salt Lake City, it offers alot more stops to do and there is a small extra, if you purchase fishing equipment from the stores you can fish if you stop near a river. And You can buy nails as well (essential for if a wagon part breaks) also they offer alot more to buy at the store, you can buy winter clothing as well as canteens and water kegs because...we can die of thirst in this game, it does give us an opportunity to travel through the desert. Also we can go in different time periods, we can travel between 1840-60 I guess it all stopped when the Civil War started? we can visit the Whitman Mission before the well Measles outbreak. You can do a quick start mode (where a majority of the essentials are already purchased) or you can basically decide everything, how many people are joining you, their ages (yes ages!) your occupation, your destination, and the starter packages, and there are no limits as to how much you can purchase. By the way if you do go to Sacramento at a certain time you can pan for Gold, which is ironic because before this game was released they did release the Yukon Trail in 1994 which is well, a game where you head to the Klondike to strike it rich, I'll review that one day.
Difficulty: Well this does offer alot more, in this game you really have to watch Morale, and depending on what level you are playing at, if you are an advanced player and the morale is low, your butt will doomed, granted it hasn't happened to me, I know for sure the Morale and the Desert crossing did get me the first few times I played.
Post review Follow-up: It's a darn shame that the games after this one don't offer (well sort of but Oregon Trail 5 is basically a remake of this game, I haven't played it though, I've watched gameplay of it though but I am keeping my eye out for it) the same things but then again considering what we get in the 3rd edition I can probably see why. This game is definitely better than the previous entry though.
This concludes my review, tomorrow will be the end of the Summer Tour De Vizzed so my final review of the event will be Oregon Trail 3rd edition Pioneer Adventures. |
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