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Awful!! I am a big fan of the Myst series. Myst was ok, Riven was !!GREAT!!, and Exile was ok, so I had my expectations fairly high for Myst IV. Ubistupid failed to meet them. The game is inanly huge and getting a graphics update caused other progarams to malfunction. The movement was slow, and the animated hand was a real annoyance. The story is the worst I've ever seen because it isn't very creative. The acting of the actors, except Rand Miller, was unconvincing, and I am rather annoyed with the general move of the Myst series' move away from ideas that are more beliveable, to the mystical mess of Myst IV. The puzzles were awful because of the fact that they were almost all trial and error, guess and check, or find a clue and copy it down in the machine. The puzzles of such classics like Riven, Myst, and Rhem caused you to think about them and go "Aha" when you got the solution, the puzzles of Myst IV caused you to go "Arrgh, that was so STUPID! How could anyone figuer that out!!??" when you finaly broke down and looked up the stupid answer in the stupid guide. The only good part of the game is the graphics, which are incredible, but only fools think that graphics make a game good. If you want to spend hours wasting your time with stupid, frustrating game, buy Myst IV. If you want to play a great game with ingenious puzzles and story, replay Riven.