Pros:
Great graphics attract players to a large extent; the plot is unique for players to venture, discover and crack safes' secrets.
Cons:
The game has multiple endings while not of all are interesting. Once the puzzles are solved, there is no reason for players to go back and replay.
Game Review:
Wealthy, but eccentric, Duncan W. Adams passed away, and his family is searching his will and testament but no result so far. As Duncan was a crazy safe designer as well as collector, the hidden stuffs are likely stored in his collections of his mansion. Your task is to locate and crack each safe in the mansion with discovery of clues to unveil Adams' will.
As a safecracking expert, you are lucky to be chosen. The task is challenging for you to fulfill, since Adams was also a puzzle lover thereupon all of his safes have been secured by assorted types of puzzles.
These puzzles include sliders, codes, number and logical puzzles. Most of the safes require puzzle-solving skills, while others will require objects, such as keys, found inside other puzzle-locked boxes. The puzzles begin easily enough, but soon become more difficult.
The main difficulty lies in the lack of clues to decipher some of the puzzles, as players may not have approached the precise clues needed yet. While the game is mostly linear, many of the puzzles are encountered before all the clues needed for them have been discovered. If so, just be patient and keep looking around until the clues are found.
The replay ability of it is the process of looking for clues and solving puzzles - move around in the mansion becomes more freely. Yet you could not go back to the solved puzzles thus the only way is to continue challenging your intellect.
System Requirements:
Windows 95/98
Pentium 75
16 MB RAM
15 MB free HD space
2x CD-ROM
Sound Card
QuickTime 2.1.2 (included on CD)
Conclusion:
It is good news for a puzzle lover to play Safecracker, for it's a combination of almost every kind of puzzles.
The hints of this game are less than you expect and I hope next version could add more hints. The rest weakness of it doesn't allow players to go back, therefore it lacks attractive factors to replay.
In short, the game is quite challenging and intellect exercising. Have a try.
03/28/2008
Lucy Lee
