It ran fine for me on the several computers I played it on. I\'ve never encountered any bugs at all and I\'ve played both the original version without the patch as well as the DVD version that has a patch with it that fixes the most common problems people had with the game. But this game uses music and sound to draw you in more than anything. The sound is very well done and the ambience is more complex that most games. Each world has its own distinct style of music and it also has a more dramatic scale to it. Jack Wall composed some excellent music that is hailed as one of the best scores for a video game ever. There also aren\'t very many flat looking surfaces in the game everything feels like it truly is in the third dimension. How many other games have several CG creatures that you can see the individual hairs and feathers of. The detail of the game is probably the most impressive thing about it. The office sequence is just amazing visually for the time. Except for the intro and ending all the in-game cut-scenes flow seamlessly with the game. I don\'t think I ever came across the same texture twice. The diversity of the worlds and textures are amazing. All the characters are implemented in the game as real actors through blue screen and there are also several CG creatures throughout the game. It still looks stinking good now and it was released in 1999. That really torqued me off as a fan because the original two just had the credits roll in any ending which made you feel more like you had made one of the many possible endings and not necessarily the wrong ending. While there are multiple endings to the game some of them result in a message coming up saying you have failed. The replay factor is moderately good as there are multiple endings although if you are like me you save at the critical decision parts of the game before proceeding. It got very frustrating and took away from the game. I\'ve seen that acorn shaped plant before, but wait it didn\'t have that opening like the other one did, this must be a totally different place. One problem I had is that one world was really hard to get around in because it was so confusing where you could and couldn\'t go or how you would have to go around something to get somewhere. The rest of the puzzles are more straightforward and most of them are moderately hard to figure out. While most of the game can be progressed through by the average gamer almost everyone I\'ve come in contact with has said that the last puzzle was too hard and that they were expecting you to piece too much together it even stumped some of the hardcore fans. It\\'s very creative how it implements the puzzles to be a believable part of the world and not just some fabricated thing for the purpose of giving you a puzzle to do. The game really draws you in from the very beginning with an amazing opening that will lead you “running like a rat through a maze” as one of the characters puts it, for the rest of the game although I wouldn\'t say you could really run through the game as most of the puzzles require taking a step back to figure them out. You do the only thing you can do, you place your hand on the top right page of the open book and enter an entirely different world… 15/20-Game Play The flames are growing steadily closer to the book, if you don’t act soon the book will be burned and so will all hopes of Releeshahn ever being visited again. But he leaves something behind, it\'s a linking book that will take you to where he has fled. A fire starts and as your attention is diverted on the fire the man grabs Releeshahn from it\'s case Atrus yells out and a you turn back the man disappears with Releeshahn in his hand. He grabs a nearby light fixture and throws it into the curtain nearest to you. As he locks up a few things you notice from the corner of your eye that a man has materialized out of thin air. Atrus arrives and gives you a journal he wrote while writing Releeshahn. This book is the link between Earth and the world Atrus and you will venture to. After reading the letter you walk over to the other side of the office where the Releeshahn book lays in its case. As you wait for Atrus in his office you can\'t help but read the letter on his desk that reveals that an intruder. You arrive there to find that Atrus and his wife now have a daughter. Atrus and his wife have moved to a small corner of Earth and you go there to visit them and journey to the world Atrus has made a link to. Several years have passed since the events of Riven.
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