A wild roller-coaster ride and a wounded "villain" make for an immersive story & all round great game...

User Rating: 9.7 | Myst III: Exile PC
Two things stood out for me on this game: The wild roller-coaster ride at the end of the Amateria Age is the best kind of reward I've seen, er experienced, for solving a puzzle. My favorite age of all Myst series because of this! And awesome acting by Brad Dourif as the "villain" Saavedro. He made the character believable, well-rounded, and understandable. By the end of the game I was hoping for some kind of redemption... Throw in the immersive nature Age (Edanna), a clever global puzzle that comes to fruition at the end (talk about a climax), and an emotional send-off at the end, and this game easily has become a fave of mine! Oh, and it has great graphics & sound & all that multi-media stuff you'd expect in a Myst game as well.

No real complaints with this game, but we played it after Myst IV, and probably just because the graphics, sound, character development & story weren't "quite" as good, I've given this one a less than perfect score. Kind of unfair really :-).