Product Description

Beautifully designed and packed with bonus content, the Limited Edition offers you a memorable gift to mark the end of the series. Note: this game requires a DVD-ROM drive to play Features Easy point-and-click interface: Easily explore vast 3D worlds with just a click of the mouse. Innovative slate system: Interact like never before with the environment--a dynamic new slate interface lets you communicate with mysterious creatures and manipulate the world around you. The first new gameplay element ever introduced in the Myst series. Richer game environments: The critically acclaimed creators of the Myst franchise raise the bar yet again with new photo-realistic worlds ripe with life, weather, movement and mystery. Pioneering cinematic technology: Innovative ;face over ; facial mapping technology brings characters alive with unprecedented emotions and expressiveness. Windows System Requirements: 800 MHz Pentium III or AMD Athlon (Pentium IV recommended) Windows 2000/XP (only) 256MB RAM (512MB recommended) 32MB DirectX 9.0c-compliant video card* DirectX 9.0c-compliant sound card DirectX 9.0c (included on disc) 4x DVD drive or faster 4.5GB free hard-disk space QuickTime for bonus content *Supported video cards at time of release: ATI Radeon 7000/8000/9000/X families NVIDIA GeForce 256/2/3/4/FX/6000 families Mac System Requirements: 1 Ghz G4 or faster processor (1.6 GHz G4 recommended) Mac OS X v10.2.8 or later (10.3.9 recommended) 256MB RAM (512MB recommended) 32MB video card supporting 32-bit color* 4x DVD drive or faster 4.1GB free hard-disk space QuickTime for bonus content

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #7718 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: UBI Soft
• Model: 68252
• Released on: 2005-09-20
• ESRB Rating: Everyone
• Platform: Mac OS X
• Format: DVD-ROM
• Dimensions: .20 pounds

Features

• Final chapter in the epic adventure game series
• Easily explore vast 3-D worlds through a new point-and-click interface
• New Slate system provides easier way to interact with the Myst environments
• Worlds drawn with real-time 3-D ripple with life and movement
• Contains: Myst V: End of Ages, Myst V: End of Ages Soundtrack, Exclusive 20 min. Making Of DVD, Collector's Concept Art Piece, and Prima Strategy Guide

From the Manufacturer
For a limited time only purchase this limited edition of Myst V: End of Ages loaded with content! Decide the fate of a civilization in this triumphant final chapter to the Myst saga. Embark on an epic journey into the heart of a shattered empire as the only explorer who can still save it--or destroy it with the wrong choices.

Explore realistic worlds ripe with life, weather, movement and mystery

The Noloben Age
A peaceful but weathered Age, Noloben houses a laboratory that sheds light on the fears, relationships and dark past of some of the characters. The Slate must be carried across beaches, up cliffs and through the lab before it will be in a position that can help unlock the tablet.

The Taghira Age
A harsh, frozen Age, Taghira was used as a prison during the ancient civilization's prime. Here players will discover that the Slate has powers of its own, powers needed to battle the cold and powers to move the Slate to its final destination; a destination that will partially unlock the powerful Tablet.

The Laki'ahn Age
A tropical island Age of white beaches and worn boulders, the fierce history of Laki'ahn is evident everywhere, from the bones of its native sea creatures to the proud arena where long forgotten crowds cheered for blood. The Laki'ahn Slate must be maneuvered through the main island and its structures to reach a tiny distant island where it will help unlock the Tablet.

Features

• Easy Point-and-Click Interface
  Easily explore vast 3D worlds with just a click of the mouse
• Innovative Slate System
  Interact like never before with the environment--a dynamic new slate interface lets you communicate with mysterious creatures and manipulate the world around you. The first new gameplay element ever introduced in the Myst series.
• Richer game environments
  The critically acclaimed creators of the Myst franchise raise the bar yet again with new photo realistic worlds ripe with life, weather, movement and mystery.
• Pioneering cinematic technology
  Innovative facial mapping technology, "face over", brings characters alive with unprecedented emotions and expressiveness

Included in this Limited Edition
Beautifully designed and packed with bonus content, the Limited Edition offers Myst fans a memorable gift to mark the end of the series:

• A 22-minute video, made by GameTap, offers a retrospective look at the making of the entire franchise.
• The original game soundtrack transports fans to the ambient worlds of Myst whenever and wherever they like.
• A collector's art piece provides a frame-able keepsake from the worlds of Myst.
• The official strategy guide helps new and old explorers progress through this final adventure.

Customer Reviews

Saying goodbye to Myst
I have enjoyed the Myst series (though I will never recover from the betrayal of Uru - NOT ON MAC?!). I am sad to see it go, but the End of Ages was a nice, and very pretty, way to bow out.

Myst V - A Fine Finish
Myst V has some of the most lushly detailed and achingly beautiful worlds to date in the Myst series. It also the first of the series to allow for complete freedom of movement, similar to a first-person "shooter" game. Exploring the worlds themselves would be reason enough to play, even without the story line, which continues to be engaging, although perhaps a bit harder to grasp initially than Myst IV. My only real disappointments with the game were crashes and graphics freezes that improved with turning down some of the detail settings. Still, Myst V is a very enjoyable experience, and it has stayed in my memory long after finishing the game.

End of Ages
I've always considered the Myst series to be the "gold standard" of "adventure games". The puzzles have always been a little harder than most games, the graphics better than most (but I have seen better), and the story lines superior. And now the end has come.
Like other reviewers, I am absolutely stumped as to why Cyan/Ubisoft decided to use computer-generated characters, rather than the live actors that have served the series so well (especially Revelation!). It seems a shame to waste such a good actor as David Ogden Stiers with an animated character. The logic seems to be that computer-generated characters give the more anal-retentive programmers control over the characters' movements, but in reality, it doesn't. The movements come out looking stiff and unnatural - although Esher looks better than any computer animated characters I've seen in other games.
The four Ages (or worlds) you travel to have some very interesting graphics and puzzles - all of them centered around a Slate, which you can draw symbols that only the Bahro creatures can read. But, you are quite literally drawing on the slates, using your mouse, and if the Bahro can't read it, they can't do anything with it. The Bahro themselves have strange powers that can affect the weather (and other things), which are necessary to complete the puzzles. Actually, it's a lot of fun using the slates which control the Bahro and their abilities.
In the Limited Edition, you get the game (on 1 DVD-ROM), a soundtrack CD, and a making-of DVD, all in one DVD case. You also get a solution guide (which I only used once!), plus a souvenir lithograph.
It's a good ending, but not the great ending we were all hoping for. But it's still worth playing.