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From: Big Fish Games
Category: Video Games

Buy New: $6.95
as of 9/5/2010 21:14 MDT details

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Seller: Amazon.com
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars

32 reviews
Sales Rank: 388

Format: Download
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows XP
Genre: puzzle_games
Media: Software Download
Edition: Standard
Operating System: Windows Vista

Model: 1962
ASIN: B003FGW7C0

Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours

Features:

•	Beautiful Hidden Object Scenes.
•	Live-Action Video Footage.
•	Explore Dangerous Dire Grove.
•	Immerse Yourself In Mystery.

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Editorial Reviews:

Product Description
The Celtic legend of Dire Grove has been passed down from generation to generation for centuries. Considered a fairytale, its telling was meant to frighten small children into staying in their beds through the night. A recently unearthed artifact in the United Kingdom, however, proves the dark legend to be true! Use your wits and Hidden Object talents to follow the trail of a group of missing graduate students in Mystery Case Files: Dire Grove!

Customer Reviews:

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Excellent! May 14, 2010
GsChinadoll (Lowell MA)
14 out of 14 found this review helpful

Best Hidden Object/Mystery/Puzzle game played so far. Well worth the price of admission! Not everyone that plays these games is twelve years old, this is a great game for anyone of any age that enjoys whiling the hours away, challenging the mind. Let's hope more developers take note. Obviously only a special few can make a "Myst" series or "Siberia" series. This game helped take up some of the slack.

5 out of 5 stars

Mystery Case Files: Dire Grove May 18, 2010
P. KOHLER (STREET, MD)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

This game is extremely well put together. I loved roaming through different settings inside and outside. Objects found in one site are used in other sites. It keeps you totally involved. Sound effects are outstanding. You feel like you are interacting in a movie. It is obvious a lot of time and effort went into making this game.
Will be looking for more like this.

5 out of 5 stars

Wow ! This was great !! June 9, 2010
Darcie B (Ohio)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

What a refreshing game, so different from anything else I've played. It is a little creepy at first, but then I realized that you don't have to watch the video tapes you collect that have actual people acting out the parts. The rest is animated and more "non-reality" and not so creepy. I will admit that I had to find a walkthrough online, but after I'd find out what to do next, it made sense and I should have gotten it ! It was hard to stop, you just want to see what happened next, hope more games come out like this one.

5 out of 5 stars

One of the Best June 16, 2010
PCCnyc (New York, NY USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

Maybe hyperbolic, but I really feel this is the best game I've played so far.

It's a hidden object game where finding objects and gathering an inventory is a lesser aspect of the game. More interesting and challenging is what you have to do with the inventory you collect. There are several locations to explore and you have to go back a few times to most of them. You really need to think what inventory object to use and how to use it when you encounter a situation or problem in a location, and inventory picked up much earlier in the game may not come into play until well into the game.

The inventory objects are not just located in the hidden scenes, but in some of the locations; for example, all the VHS tapes are outside the HO scenes. I admit to checking a blog walk through after playing for a length of time just to make sure I had found everything and performed all the tasks.

The mini games are also top notch and include a maze-like alphabet game that I thought was especially clever.

The storyline involves four grad students searching for the truth about a Celtic legend in the town of Dire Grove. As others have mentioned, you collect about 18 VHS tapes that tell the story in snippets of what has happened to the students. I didn't find the short films as scary as four scenes involving each student that occur within the game itself. But no spoilers on that! The whole game takes place in a snowy environment that I found particularly immersive for some reason.

My only regret is that I didn't know there was a deluxe version of this game before I got the standard version. Although I usually have no desire to replay a game that I know the conclusion of, I have to say I would consider buying the deluxe game after some time passes. That's how much I liked this game.

One last thing. There is a text "guide" that comments on your actions in the game. There are three modes, one of them being "sarcastic". I set it to that, but had to change it because it was so insulting!

5 out of 5 stars

Deserves a solid five-star rating! July 14, 2010
P. Jensen
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

This is probably the best hidden object/puzzle game I have played to date and sincerely hope that game developers will take notice of the rave reviews it is getting and give us more games like this one. If you enjoy this type of game, you owe it to yourself to give it a try. In a game of this quality I prefer to take the time and patience to play without a walkthrough, but if you want to hurry through it and simply enjoy the story and the gorgeous graphics, there's a complete walkthrough at Bigfish Games. The game downloaded perfectly from Amazon, and I played it on a laptop running Windows 7. The only downside is that I haven't been able to find another game that measures up!!

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