Product Description

Myst 10th Anniversary Edition - discover the grandeur contained in a strange new world. Unlock the power & legends behind each of the Ages of Myst, as you live the storylines of the classic game series. Your eyes will be dazzled and your brain will be puzzled by the mysteries you pursue here. This collection includes Myst Masterpiece, Riven, and Myst III: Exile. Special digital guide with multiple levels of help, making the Myst games more accessible Now fully compatible with Windows XP, or Mac OSX

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #606 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: UBI Soft
• Released on: 2003-11-11
• ESRB Rating: Everyone
• Platforms: Macintosh, Windows 98, Windows XP

Features

• Collection includes Myst Masterpiece, Riven, and Myst III: Exile
• Explore new ages, dramatic storylines, and incredible sights and sounds
• Engineered to be fully compatible with Windows XP
• Exclusive interview with Rand Miller
• Footage from the making of Myst III: Exile and Riven

From the Manufacturer
Myst 10th Anniversary DVD Edition includes three award-winning products: Myst Masterpiece, Riven, and Myst III: Exile.

Alone on a mysterious island, you set out to explore its grandeur and mystery. In Myst a chilling tale of intrigue and injustice, defying all boundaries of space and time, is being told. Summon your wits and imagination about you. Every scrap of paper and ambient sound may provide the vital clues that allow hidden secrets to unravel before you. Each discovery you make and each puzzle you solve will lead you one step closer to reversing a wrong that has gone unchecked for ages.

Features:

• DigitalGuide with multiple levels of help makes Myst more accessible than ever
• Brilliant 24-bit color graphics enhance an already beautiful world
• Digitally remastered music for a heightened sense of mystery and intrigue
• New 16-bit sound effects enhance the sense of realism like never before

In the most anticipated sequel ever, join Atrus in his search for Catherine in Riven: The Sequel to Myst. Enjoy all-new locations, bigger environments, deeper character interaction, and amazingly real textures and graphics.

Features:

• 4,000 breathtaking images
• Three hours of astonishing animation
• Unprecedented graphic depth and detail
• Two hours of alluring music and sound effects
• Immersive, multitrack sound

The sequel to Myst and Riven, Myst III: Exileis the perfect place to plan the perfect revenge.

Features:

• Evolution of the popular Myst series, supports optional 3-D hardware
• Free-look movement system allows you to pan 360 degrees at any location
• Five entirely new ages to explore
• Storyline reveals a new character
• Solve puzzles to uncover the mystery of this new adversary

Customer Reviews

First two are great
I've been a fan of the original Myst game since I was ten years old or so, and my family played it together then. It took us, I don't know, a few months.

Then, awhile later, I played Riven with my younger brothers. We spent a couple of years puzzling it out, but finally, we got to the end with a little tiny help from a hint guide online (a choice I regret, and if I play Myst 4, it will be without hints).

Which brings us to the point when we bought all three together. Riven is just so much better on DVD, Myst Masterpiece is lovely (if you've finished it, read the hints, they're hilarious!), but Exile was somewhat lacking. It just didn't have the same feel as the original two. But it was satisfying in the end, just way too easy. We finished it in a week of concentrated effort.

I would have liked the game makers to package the discs in jewel cases, since DVDs can get scratched when they are left in envelopes. Also, there was no included installer for Macintosh anywhere, just a little read me with instructions for installing by hand. I had no problem doing it, but they really could have shown more respect for the platform that Myst originated on.

A plus side of the anniversary edition is the making of videos included with Riven and Exile. Myst comes with an interview with Rand Miller, detailing Uru, and it ends up being a commercial. Oh well. The other movies are great.

All together, this is a satisfying package of nostalgia, even for somebody in their teens who remembers growing up with Myst and Riven.

Myst 10th Anniversary DVD Edition
My friend got me hooked on the Myst games with this so I had to buy it for my self so I could play it whenever I wanted. So far Myst III: Exile is my favorite but the first two are fun as well.

works on Vista with some tinkering (read below)
First, reviews of the actual gameplay can be found elsewhere. My major point here is to share how one could likely get this to work on Windows Vista. This works, in the least, for Myst Masterpiece and the 5-CD Riven (which I had earlier), so I would think it very likely it'd work for the DVD Riven and probably also for Myst Exile (if Myst Exile didn't work already). I got this info from a Google search[...]

There're 3 things you need to do/know to get the game working:

1) Set the correct compatibility mode for the shortcut to each game. This is Windows 95 for Myst and, I think, for Riven as well. I also gave the program administrative privileges in case there were issues with saving files; I'm not sure if this makes a difference.

2) Copy the System32 Quicktime files that "come with" each game into the Program Files directory for the respective game. Of course, it's probably a bad idea to have multiple versions of Quicktime installed (if it's even possible), so this gets around the issue that the different games appear to use different (and, more importantly, now outdated) versions of Quicktime. Here's what I did for Myst:
- uninstall the current version of Quicktime (happened to be the latest Quicktime Alternative for me, which didn't seem to work with Myst)
- install the version of Quicktime that comes on the Myst DVD
- go to the C:\Windows\System32 directory
- find the Quicktime files just installed; I found 3 (they should have an old "modified" date, I think 2003 if I remember correctly; to figure out precisely which files are relevant, cross reference the dates of the files in the System32 folder with the dates of the files in the Program Files\Quicktime folder)
- copy these Quicktime files from the System32 folder to the Myst program files folder (it's possible not all of these are necessary, but more doesn't seem to hurt)
- uninstall this version of Quicktime and, if necessary, delete the System32 files if they weren't cleaned up
Myst worked for me afterwards. I used a similar procedure for the 5-CD Riven; I'm thinking it likely that the DVD Riven will be fixed that way as well. Additionally, for Riven, I read somewhere to set "fEnableAudioProxy=true" on the appropriate line within Mohawk.w32 (a text file found in the Riven program files folder). Not sure if this is necessary, but I read somewhere to try that first, before installing and copying Quicktime, so I did; it didn't work, and I just left it.

3) I had trouble saving games initially since there was no line editor to enter the desired file name in the "Save As..." dialog box, so I created dummy (empty) files with the correct extension (*.mys for Myst; *.riv for Riven) in the program files folder to overwrite with the saved game. Annoying, but easy to work around.

So all in all, it takes maybe 5 - 10 minutes to get all this done for each game, which isn't very much time. If you're not very "computer literate", your best bet is to get a friend to help you. The trickiest part is finding the installed Quicktime files in the System32 folder, which I did based on the modified date (I just found a group of files with the an "old" modified date that matched at least one of the files in the Program Files\Quicktime folder).

Since getting Myst and Riven to work, I haven't had any issues with the game freezing or anything. My biggest "functional" complaint, though, is that it completely taxes one of my cores at 100% ALL THE TIME. Do Myst and Riven really not know how to just sit pretty and display a still image while I decide what to do next?! This has a tendency to make my laptop super hot, which has a tendency to make my laptop super slow, so once in a while I have to take a break to let it cool down. If your computer has heating/cooling issues, beware.

Also, to reiterate some hints from another post:

- Read everything.
- Check every direction at every location.
- Pay attention to sounds, they are often subtly important.
- Look behind every door (both sides).

Good luck!

- Jeff