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Mystery Case Files®: Shadow Lake Collector's Edition 
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Uncover the evil legend that haunts a forgotten town in Mystery Case Files®: Shadow Lake! In 1973, something wicked took over the town of Bitterford, Maine, after an unsuspecting inmate unearthed a mysterious object from beneath the prison floor.
Years later, Bitterford lies in ruin. You must join forces with psychic Cassandra Williams, played by award-winning actress Lea Thompson, to investigate the events that led to the town's destruction.
Only you can expose the evil that lurks in the depths of Shadow Lake. But beware... What you discover may haunt you forever.
This is a special Collector's Edition release full of exclusive extras you won't find in the standard version. As a bonus, Collector's Edition purchases count toward three stamps on your Monthly Game Club Punch Card!
The Collector's Edition includes:
- Exclusive bonus gameplay
- Unlockable Morphing Objects
- Beautiful screensavers & wallpapers
- Exclusive behind-the-scenes video
- Dynamic casebook and integrated Strategy Guide
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Game System Requirements:
- OS: 10.8/10.7/10.6
- CPU: 1.8 GHz (INTEL ONLY)
- RAM: 1024 MB
- Hard Drive: 1517 MB
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WASTE OF TIME AND MONEY!
After looking forward to this game for a year, it was a HUGE let down. I can't even make myself finish it and if I could get my money back I would!
Acting = cheesy and overdone. Is she really making fun of this game or what?
Hidden object games = minimalist drawing and boring
Puzzles = few to do and the ones you repeat are lame.
Unique features like morhping objects = missing
Map = decent, but why can't you move around on your own, too?
Strategy Guide = is this a joke, NOT helpful!
I've never written a review before but had to this time to warn people! You MUST do the trial first so you have a chance to say NO WAY! I wouldn't even play the SE. I will definitely never assume MCF is a sure thing again, this game was awful!!
November 23, 2012
My Two Cents Worth!
It's a pity that there are so many negative reviews because I thought that the game was very well done! Beautiful graphics - probably the best I've seen from BFG on this series! Lots of 'scares'; a little humour, (LOVED that book on auto repair!) and what I thought was a perfectly adequate SG! I'm only about 60% of the way through the game, but I'm loving it! The MCF series, (from RTR onwards), will be amongst my most treasured gaming 'possessions' for the rest of my life I think. Each year there is something new, (and something old!), and more challenging about the games - it's as if we're all 'growing' together. Can't wait to see what comes next year! Well done Big Fish!!
November 25, 2012
Great game!
I'm surprised to read so many negative reviews of this game. I absolutely loved this one. Loved the comic performances by Lea Thompson and the reality show team. I was completely engrossed in the story. It could have been longer, but I think that's because I enjoyed the game so much I wanted it to go on longer. This is in contrast to Escape from Ravenhurst, which I finished but only because I had spent the money for it and so felt obliged. I was tired by EFR's overly serious atmosphere and the puzzles seemed tedious.
Anyway, for Shadow Lake:
I loved the variety of characters -- check out the credits, there were a lot of characters in this one.
I loved the puzzles -- having the psychic ask you to find various objects for their psychic energy helped integrate the puzzles into the story.
Graphics were beautiful.
I loved the fog and the atmosphere.
As others have said, this wasn't the most difficult game but it wasn't embarrassingly easy either.
This was right up there with Dire Grove for me, if only it had gone on for a bit longer.
November 22, 2012
SO TERRIFIC IT'S HARD TO WAIT FOR THE NEXT ONE
Very good production values. The MCFs keep getting better and this is the best one yet. They?ve come a long way since Huntsville. You can play casual or expert modes, in high definition and with subtitles. You have separate volume controls for sound effects and the environment. Music is relaxing. You have a map and a case book which lists your tasks and your notes on the case. For once, we have cutscenes with good live actors who act and sound natural ? it?s about time! Delve into a good well thought-out and interesting plot. Adding the ghost hunters is good -- more mystery is added as to why they took off so fast, while leaving quite a bit of their equipment behind. Very good graphics.
November 20, 2012
A true Thanksgiving turkey
MCF had become a Thanksgiving tradition for my family, so I had bought this without hesitation. I'm not a huge fan of things jumping out at me, so the first instance with the television turned me off. However, my teens and my husband enjoy that sort of thing, so it didn't bother them. Their complaints are that this just doesn't have the snarky humor of the previous games, nor does it have a very good plotline. Too much time was spent on the filming, and not enough on production. The best analogy is when George Lucas made episode one of Star Wars, and visually it was beautiful, but the emotional aspect was missing.
This series is no longer fun.
November 21, 2012
I held my breath for THIS??!!
This game was so disappointing in so many ways. I don't even know where to start.
1) Lea Thompson. She practically chews the scenery into spitwads. She could rival my Thanksgiving ham. I feel awful saying this because I have enjoyed her acting so many times before, but her acting here was a bit ... overdone. Perhaps the direction was at fault.
2) I'm guessing that Ms. Thompson was expensive and the MCF crew wanted to get their money's worth, which they most certainly did, but they did so to the great detriment of the usual pacing and excitement of MCF games. Constantly cutting back to Cassandra really slowed things down.
3) The storyline. Sigh. Ho hum. Boring.
4) The thrills here are getting cheap. Screamers? Zombies in mirrors? Don't get me started on the corpses. Did they really need to show a corpse decomposing on an autopsy table? Some people play these games to relax, y'know.
5) Lack of value for money. I was done with this game in THREE HOURS! 13th Skull, for all of its faults, entertained me solidly the first time I played it for over seven hours, and I've enjoyed it over and over again many times since. Shadow Lake was so boring that not only am I not going to play it again, I've already uninstalled it.
5) This series has lost all of the little touches that made it so much fun. What happened to morphing objects, achievements/rewards, easter eggs, insignia cards, bonus games? Where did they all go?
I might just go cry now.
November 20, 2012
Disappointing game
The production of this game is nothing but super with live actors. The story and game play are awful. The in-game hints are not the best, but there is an IA map. HOS are different requiring moving around to find all the objects. The puzzles are awful and difficult. Objects needed are not always available at first - you have to do something somewhere else and come back to get the object from where you were before. Bad! I don't recommend this game as an SE even and especially as a CE. It's just not any fun.
November 21, 2012
A Big Disappointment
I was all set to buy this game since I have loved and purchased most of the other MCF games such as Dire Grove, 13th Skull & the Ravenhearst games which were all fantastic, but I am very glad I decided to try the demo first because I am very sorely disappointed in this one. Right off it isn't clear what you need to do and continues to be that way throughout the game (the demo anyway). The case book which usually is fairly helpful and detailed is a bare minimum in this game. Just a few notes jotted down here and there with a list of tasks. I think the storyline would have been ok if I could have gotten through to the end but since the game mechanics and most of the other things that have always made MCF games a joy for me aren't there in this one I couldn't bring myself to continue and uninstalled.
Like they say: "Never change a good thing unless you're going to make it better".
November 20, 2012
Beyond belief
I've only tried the preview - its awful. I feel that its gone back 10 years. Rubbish storyline, poor quality graphics, use of picture people (whats the real phrase?) - the bit I really didn't like about Dire Grove.
There is nothing about this that recommends it or would make me buy it. I wouldn't play it if is was free.
What the heck has happened?
November 21, 2012
I waited a year for this?
I've been an avid game player for many years with approximately 1000+ games in my collection with MCF being one of my all time favorite series and I even own the DS and Wii games. Huntsville, Prime Suspects, and Madame Fate were good but the Ravenhearst series, Dire Grove, and 13th Skull were excellent! I own the whole MCF series in CE becaue I love the extra content but I was a little let down by the lack of extra content in the last game, Escape from Ravenhearst, and hoped this lack of content wasn't a precedent for the amount of extra content in future MCF CE games. I love the story line for the Ravenhearst series, the Morphing Objects, the achievements medals you could earn, the fact it was a physcological thriller and you had to really think about how to solve the game. I was really looking forward to Shadow Lake and for BFG to provide MCF fans with a game that was superior to any of the games thus far in the series... SADLY I AM EXTREMELY DISAPPOINTED... I like how there are live actors in this game but the way they are portrayed was really cheezy, not to mention the fact the journal was a to do list rather than a case file like past games, and the psychic character leading you through a games as a guide is a joke. Finding HO in seperate scenes was nice but I really didn't like anything else about this game. The "bonus content" in the CE is a joke. It has cool wallpaper and screen savers but the SG sucks. You can't flip back and forth between pages like in previous games and it tells you how much you've figured out in the game as a percentage and thats it. What's the point of having a SG if it doesn't help you when your stuck in a game? There are no acheiment medals in this game which I'm sure for many will be a huge let down. Also, if I have the CE I would expect the Morphing Objects to be unlocked at the beginning of the game but no.
*Spoiler Alert*
You have to go to a secret area at the beginning of the game which is a mining area in the upper left corner of the map and get a mask out of a safe to unlock the morphing objects.The way it's worded in the journal leads you to believe there is a bonus scene if you find all 50 Morphing Objects but sadly the Morphing Objects are just an extra feature.
My biggest grippe about this games is the fact the psychic is telling you what to do and the games is totally repetitive. The journal neeeds to go back to looking like a casefile as in previous games and not a to do list. If I wanted a to do list I mite as well make a chore list or shopping list. I expected a lot more of BFG for this game and believe shadow lake tarnishes the MCF series. I BELIEVE BFG NEEDS TO GET BACK TO ITS ROOTS FOR THIS SERIES AND CONTINUE MAKING THE MCF GAMES IN THE WAY ITS FANS LOVE AND EXPECT. I know the majority of MCF fans will be unfortunately as disappointed as I am in this game so if you haven't bought it yet don't waste your money because its not worth it.
November 23, 2012
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