"Egyptian Prophecy - The Fate of Ramses" released

[Guest muff]

Pocket PC $24.95 | £14.20 | €20.58

From the Tetraedge website http://www.tetraedge.com/ :-

Story

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Ramses II is dying and with him the glory fo Egypt shall fall. Amon-Ra, the Sun-God, promises to extend his life in exchange for the most magnificent temple ever built.

Trouble is not far away as the building site for the temple is affected by a number of sinister incidents. Maia, a young priestess, must solve the mystery behind these events and save the life of the Pharaoh.

Features

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- Travel along the Nile and explore magnificent locations and monuments such as Karnak, Memphis and the labyrinth of Ptah.

- Interact with various characters and encounter Egyptian gods, including : Osiris, Seth, Isis and Ptah

- Decipher an array of intriguing puzzles set in breath-taking environments

- Easily concoct sacred potions and perform ancient Egyptian rituals using the customized game interface and inventory

Requirements

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- Minimal configuration : 300 MHz - 25-30 MB of free memory - 210 MB storage space

- Optimal configuration : 400 MHz POCKET PC with good graphic performances - 25-30 MB of free memory - 210 MB storage space

- As such Egyptian prophecy for Pocket PC must be copied to Storage card manually.

- For VGA based Pocket PCs, it will run at a fixed 320x240 resolution.

- Ready for Windows mobile 2005

So as the story says, you are playing Maia, a young priestess, trying to solve the mysterious events that are happening at the temple in order to save the life of the Pharoah.

Following in the footsteps of "Atlantis Redux", "Egyptian Prophecy - The fate of Ramses" continues to give us stunning visuals.

These visuals are made from pre-rendered locations that you move between, a bit like moving between stepping stones, each with full 360 degree views. This means you really feel that you are in Egypt wandering around ancient locales.

There are also some movies to help the storyline along as well (over 30 minutes worth according to Tetraedge).

They have not forgotten the audio either - good quality voice acting of all the text, as well as music throughout.

All this high production does mean that the game weighs in at a mighty 200Mb - get those big SD-Cards ready folks ;)

On top of that are all the usual things you'd expect from an adventure game - conversation trees, inventory, object interaction.

There are 6 save slots so you dont have to worry about having to complete the game all in one sitting - though no one is saying you can't :)

There are a couple of minor little niggles along the way though.

- the game does not override the backlight timeout, so the screen goes blank if you are pondering something or a long movie is playing

- no way to disable the 'subtitling' where it's not needed

- cannot rotate the views with the touchscreen, you have to use the stick

- can only rotate the view in a single direction, not diagonally which can frustrate

- sometimes you can see a direction you want to walk, but either cannot get there at all or else have to find the right spots to move between to get there

- you cannot choose to rotate the screen the other way around

But none of these are real show-stoppers and you do get used to the way the game works

All told though, if you are into graphic adventures you're unlikely to find anything prettier.

SCREENSHOTS

From the intro movie :-

In game :-

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Two tips I would make before you start the game :-

1. Read the Userguide (on your PC) before you begin or else you wont know how the interface works.

2. Play the intro movie so that you know what's going on, it's not shown by default.

Available from ClickGamer

Edited July 30, 2005 by muff

[Guest Pondrew]

Looks good. May get round to checking this out BUT have to ask, is it actually gripping or is the plot/atmosphere more of a chore?

[Guest Sir Max]

The graphics look very good for a PPC.

[Guest Vesselin Nerdeff]

yo man i found this game ...........this game rockz:)

Edited October 13, 2005 by Disco Stu

[Guest fozzie]

yo man i found this game here

my friend bought it from here and this game rockz:)

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Who cares, when it's 25% cheaper at Clickgamer, as linked in the original post?! :roll:

Poor attempt at an advert btw - in fact, I'd say 5 links in your first 3 posts, all to your website, constitutes Spam doesn't it?!

Edited October 13, 2005 by fozzie

[Guest Disco Stu]

Confirmed ! [-X

[Guest digihayes]

Have a look at pocketland.net's review of Egyptian prophecy

http://pocketland.net/showstory.php?id=198 :)