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The Crystal Key
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Binding: CD-ROM
Brand: Dreamcatcher
EAN: 0625904286109
ESRB Age Rating: Everyone
Format: CD-ROM
Label: Dreamcatcher Interactive
Manufacturer: Dreamcatcher Interactive
Model: 2022537
Platform: Macintosh, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows 95
Publisher: Dreamcatcher Interactive
Release Date: November 26, 1999
Studio: Dreamcatcher Interactive
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Editorial Review:
Your quest for the Crystal Key will take you on an incredible adventure. Your intellect and intuition will be your greatest allies a journey through breathtaking worlds filled with beauty, mystery and technological wonders. Embrace the challenge as you carefully examine and solve each puzzle along your path. New secrets lie waiting to be unlocked by those who possess the Crystal Key.
Crystal Key is a first-person science fiction adventure of alternate worlds, holographic communication, and planetary survival. Gameplay is similar to Myst, with lush graphics and challenging puzzles.
Your planet, whose origins are never specified, has intercepted a space-radio transmission warning of the impending arrival of an alien master of evil: Ozgar. The transmission reveals that the only people to have ever thwarted Ozgar's fiendish advances live on the mysterious planet Arkonia. Soon after your planet decodes the message, Ozgar arrives and starts doing his evil overlord thing, disrupting the ecosystem, changing the tides, and throwing the planet into tectonic upheaval with superpowerful magnetic satellites. The only way you can save your world is by finding the Arkonians.
Your search leads you through various worlds, reachable by use of a Crystal Key artifact and mysterious Arkonian Portal Technology. Finely detailed puzzles and limited character interaction drive the adventure forward, climaxing in the inevitable battle-of-wits encounter with the malevolent Ozgar.
Crystal Key's puzzles are inventive, but the sparse QuickTime video sequences are buggy, as is the game in general--be sure to save often. Gameplay is often incredibly slow, a result of sluggish load times and random lockups. But if you can tolerate these technical annoyances, you'll discover Crystal Key unlocks an engaging adventure. --Madeleine Miller
Pros: - Myst-like gameplay
- Cool space-rover rides
- Challenging puzzles
Cons: - Nonreliable software and graphics
- Simplistic story line
Prepare yourself for an incredible adventure. Armed with only your wits, you will travel through stunning 3-D lands of desert, jungle, and water as you explore breathtaking ruins and caverns in search of the elusive Crystal Key.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - A Good Puzzle Game
There will always be games with gameplays similar to Myst's.Some of these "Myst Clones" are terrible, but The Crystal Key is one of the better ones.
In the Game, Earth has intercepted a message from an alien race (the Arkonians) that an evil being called Ozgar has been defeated(but not destroyed). This being appears in Earth's skies several days later, and wreacks havoc with sattelites that disturb Earth's infrastructure. You are sent in a ship to the place where the message came ... Read More
Rating:  - Not Good at All
Confusing and impassable. Think I'm talking about NYC traffic? No, this was the Crystal Key. In my opinion, this was the worst game I have ever played! I couldn't even get past the first "land", even after following two walkthroughs! The plot didn't make sense, and wasn't exactly great. I would advise to play the real Myst instead, instead of some spinoff trying to live up to Myst.
Rating: - The second-worst Myst ripoff ever!
Okay, maybe not. But it's the second-worst I've ever played, Entombed (a $3 game so awful that Amazon doesn't even have it) having worse graphics and even more nonsensical puzzles.
STORY: WEAK
Who is Ozgar? Who are the Arkonians? Why do they hate each other? Why does Ozgar hate you? Is Ozgar really Darth Vader or does he just act like it?
These questions, alas, shall go unanswered. I don't think I'm willing to buy the second game to see if there're any new revelations.
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Rating: - Beautiful, but lacking a story and a good payoff
The Crystal Key has environments just as breathtaking as the ones shown on the box. Exploring them is a joy. However, there is practically no story. You crash land on a planet and basically puzzle your way "out", which involves transporting to other worlds, etc.
The puzzles are interesting, but often too easy and too linear. This is the type of game where finding a screwdriver on the ground means you'll be needing it for a puzzle around the corner.
Some environments, like the ... Read More
Rating: - A Game?
I have to agree with my fellow reviewers this game was highly disapointing. The graphics aren't that impressive, the easily motion sick people I suggest that you stay away from this game for when you move the graphics get quite blurry and the movement is quite wreckless.
I got extremly board with the game and have yet to finish it (which I don't think I ever will.)
This game (if you could call it that) is a waste of money and time. As many others have mentioned this game has little point ... Read More
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