Puzz3D CD: Notre Dame Cathedral
Amazon.com Review
Become a master builder and construct the Notre Dame piece by piece, inside and out. Puzz3-D Notre Dame Cathedral surrounds you with historical fact and fantasy as you erect this legendary cathedral, from the most minute details of the rose windows to the more obvious external parapet. Once finished, penetrate with your own personal key–your reward for a job well done–and learn the hidden secrets of Notre Dame. Four difficulty levels in this program grant progressively higher rewards for completion of the puzzle. The Simple level offers a 138-piece puzzle and a bronze key providing access to the first floor of the cathedral; the Super Challenging level presents 919 pieces and a platinum reward–the key to the most deeply hidden secrets of Notre Dame. At each level, after completing certain parts of the puzzle, you can view educational text and videos. Learn about many historical and architectural details of building the grand cathedral, such as constructing the flying buttresses, the challenge of incorporating so much glass into the design, and other trials of architect Maurice de Sully. Once you solve the 3-D puzzle, you take a similar tour of the inside of Notre Dame–with a twist. Within the historical description are not-so-hidden clues to a fictitious mystery involving the “spirits” of Notre Dame. The greatest enjoyment of the Puzz3-D Notre Dame Cathedral is the puzzle itself. Less flourishing is the attempt to creatively reveal the architectural and constructive history of the cathedral. The quality of the videos and sound clips is poor (even with a high-quality sound card, the ends of the last sentences in the sound bites are cut off, so that much of the historical information is lost). The reward of exploring the cathedral when you’ve completed the puzzle is inadequate, with inferior graphics and awkward directional controls. Stick to the puzzle challenge and you won’t be disappointed. –Madeleine MillerAmazon.com Product Description
Wrebbit’s Notre Dame Cathedral 3-D Puzzle features sharp 3-D graphics, an intuitive puzzle interface, dozens of video clips, and an original score, which makes a convincing medieval atmosphere. And once the puzzle is built, the adventure continues inside with spirits, kings, and an imprisoned Gypsy girl.
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I don’t own this, but my sister does and when I was visiting her in GA I got to play it. I am really into the puzzle thing and I loved this game. Not only does it give you the puzzle to build but it gives you clues to find so it seems like more then one game to play. The bonus is all the historical facts you learn on your way thru. I have always loved history so this was one of the best sports meeting I have played on the PC. I can’t wait to buy Bravarian Castle!!
Rating: 4 / 5
I thoroughly loved this puzzle and gradually increased the difficulty as I grew accustomed to manipulating the pieces and connecting the sides. Having recently visited Notre Dame, I had a ball putting together this puzzle and look forward to trying the others by Wrebbit. Effective this puzzle requires a excellent computer and, as another on-line reviewer noted, normal saves to prevent lost work. The software taxes the computer memory and sometimes causes crashes. I’ve updated my machine since playing Notre Dame, so, now that I’ve ordered Bavarian Castle from Amazon, I’m hoping the new puzzle will be better tolerated by my hardware.
Excellent luck to all who like a challenge!
Rating: 4 / 5
I had problems with this game. I chose the beginners’ level and place together most of the puzzle only to find some sections missing. I sent Wrebbit an email and got a comeback that maybe the missing pieces were under a dialogue box on the table. I checked and answered that the pieces were not on the table. It has been two weeks and I have not heard more from Wrebbit.
Also, I found the use of the show to be very poor. I have an XGA screen, which I reflect is now pretty standard. The program used only a VGA (640 X 480) dialogue box in the middle of the screen. To compensate for the lack of screen real estate they have a complicated system of procedures to scroll the small dialogue box over the tabletop. It would be much better if they used all of the real estate on the XGA screen and simplified the complicated procedures.
Rating: 1 / 5
This puzzle was challenging in a different way as the assembled sections were not all flat. This made you reflect differently while matching puzzle pieces. As far as solving the mystery, I’m still effective on this one. Highly recomend all Puzz 3-D if you’re a puzzle lover.
Rating: 5 / 5
I just finished the puzzle, and the exploration inside Notre Dame. My largest suggestion is to SAVE often! It may have just been my Win95 computer but on two different occaisions, I lost all my work when the program caused an error and had to shut itself down. I would also suggest that you do the master level before going inside the cathedral with the key. If not, any of the puzzles you solve will not be solved on the next level. To save yourself the heartache of having to redo everything, wait until you are a master builder. Other than that, have fun!
Rating: 4 / 5