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Department 42: The Mystery of the Nine 
Join Department 42, a secret organization devoted to the paranormal, and protect the world! Help Agent Alice Wright track down nine mysterious and evil artifacts that have gone missing. Use your Hidden Object skills to protect the planet from the nightmare that has been unleashed and restore order! Travel across the country and piece together the enigma that is Department 42: The Mystery of the Nine!
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- Gripping gameplay
- Save the world!
- Perplexing puzzles
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Game System Requirements:
- OS: Windows XP/Vista/7/8
- CPU: 1.0 GHz
- RAM: 512 MB
- DirectX: 9.0
- Hard Drive: 140 MB
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Department 42: The Mystery of the Nine
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Very interesting game!
Plus = I had heard about this game, so was pleased when it showed up as a Daily Deal. The storyline was interesting, and the game played well without any technical problems. In this game you are hunting for nine supernatural relics (artifacts) in order to save the world. You visit various locales in your quest. The game play was easy for me, and I was able to complete the game without having to resort to using a Strategy Guide or Walkthrough. The visuals and graphics were also clear and crisp on my desktop computer.
Minus = Players who do not like occult or supernatural themes (which I love) may be uncomfortable with this game.
November 27, 2011
A disappointment
I gave this game 3 stars, but I would've liked to give it 4 stars - it was a very well executed game, good graphics, good storyline, but what let it down so much was that the HOS were just too difficult. I like my HOS to be challenging but not impossible. In each HOS there were at least 3 objects that were so well hidden as to be practically invisible, and I didn't do one scene without using the hint. Unfortunately the hint takes time to recharge, so I found myself wasting a lot of time on the HOS waiting for recharge, due to the practical invisibility of the objects. Once, even with the hint, I still had trouble seeing the object.
Also, knowing what to do next can be difficult as you have to guess what needs to be done, which I found to be a little annoying. I was disappointed, as this game could've been really good - the mini games weren't overly difficult, but I don't like to spend the majority of my time whilst playing a HOS/puzzle game, searching for objects in the HOS.
April 15, 2012
Great game with a good story as well
This takes a while to finish. There are many hidden object as well as many mini games. I loved the story line as well. It keeps you interested. Some of the mini games are difficult as well, and I had to skip a few out of frustration. LOL
March 17, 2012
Not even worth 2.99
This was a very slow game,and HO were very small and blended into the background too much. Even when I clicked on a HO,it had to be clicked on a certain spot to get it. The hint meter took FOREVER to load. The graphics are not the best. When you compare this to Black Isle, Ravenheart series,you would see the quality of the graphics and hidden object scenes. I should have played the trial version before buying it.
May 14, 2012
High Quality Fun
Pluses: Excellent graphics, non-intrusive music that changed with the different quests, HOS very well-done (and if a scene was repeated (which was rare), the objects already found did NOT reappear - thank you, developers!!), entertaining story-line for a game of this type, mini-games of varying degreee of difficulty (see below) that were a bit out of the ordinary, good length. All these pluses make the game eminently replayable, not always the case for this kind of game. Plus, once a HOS or a mini-game is completed, it becomes playable on its own.
Minuses: Two of the mini-games (in particular, the last one) were pretty tough, at least for me. However, they were skippable and also there is a good walkthrough available. Likewise, a few (maybe 5 total) of the hidden objects were EXTREMELY hard to find (but you could always use a hint). And finally, as is sometimes the case when non-native speakers design the HOS, a few (a maximum of five in the whole game) of the objects had names that were not familiar to a US person (but I had no trouble figuring them out, and the narative was perfectly fine in terms of the translation). I am only mentioning these minuses because they might bother some people but they in no way detracted from the game for me.
May 10, 2012
Slightly frustrating
The graphics look ok but finding some objects is rather frustrating. You have to click exactly right on the object else it doesn't find it- with larger objects this is ok but with smaller and thin ones, it just gets annoying.
Storyline is a bit weak in my opinion and instructions are ambiguous on occasion.
All in all, it could have been much better so I cannot recommend this game.
May 8, 2012
Great Game!
This is a great game!
You are searching for missing artifacts that cause strange things to happen to the people that possess them.
The story line has many mini stories as you track down these artifacts. As the demo finished, I had only collected one of the 7 artifacts and was working on the second.
Based on this, the game may have a long play time.
The graphics and sound are good.
There are many hidden object scenes and mini games. Some are easy and some a bit of a challenge.
This will be a great Daily Deal purchase for our ever growing collection of games from Big Fish.
May 8, 2012
Great game BUT
I like this game but it got very slow at the end if the hour
July 14, 2012
Game play...
Could be an interesting game if player wasn't left hanging so much.
June 15, 2012
another good gamer
thought this game was pretty amazing like the story line
January 13, 2012
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