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Great for tourists, not gamers

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 14 / 15
Date: July 09, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I wanted to like Traitor's Gate. Really. After all, it offers a brilliant recreation of the Tower Of London, with photorealistic graphics that provide a downright eerie atmosphere. And it is great for anyone who's ever wanted to explore the parts of the tower that are normally shut off to the public (or anyone who can't fly off to London at any given time.) But as a game, it just falls flat. There's precious little character interaction (aside from the occasional guard you'll have to shoot), and the slow, prerendered 3D movement from node to node will grate on your nerves after about fifteen minutes. On the plus side, the puzzles are well integrated (but a little too tough at times), and the gameplay is nonlinear, which is a rare treat for anyone who's ever played a first person graphic adventure. I enjoyed Cyberflix's "Titanic: Adventure Out Of Time," and I hoped this would offer a similar, historically accurate thrill. It had all the potentional, but just fell short.

Spend your video game money somewhere else!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 18 / 21
Date: August 08, 2000
Author: Amazon User

There were a lot of things wrong with this game by Dreamcatcher. It seems to me that they spent a lot of time on graphics, but no time on plot development or movies. The basic plot is that you, as a secret agent, have to break into the tower in London that holds the Crown Jewels and replace them with fakes so that this other guy that is planning on stealing them, cannot. Even though I finished the game successfully, I was still told at the end that I didn't remove all of my traces from the towers and that the United States was dissapointed in me. This game has a terribly dull ending, many puzzles and concepts that do not make sense, a maze of sewers that will drive you insane if you don't use a map from a walkthrough, and on top of that: When I contacted Dreamcatcher Interactive for support on how to properly finish the game they told me that I did something wrong at the very beginning of the game and that I would have to play it all over again to win the game correctly. Furthermore, they were extremely rude. :o) Please buy a game with a better plot, unless you want to spend your time lost, looking through a walkthru, and at stupid re-creations of the famous museum holding the royal crown jewels. Dreamcatcher game designers need to put the focus of their games in a better place, and learn how to deal properly with their customer base.

Isn't the game you may think it is

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: September 05, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I thought games like this died out several years ago. Maybe if this were an average game letting you move around freely, it would be good, but it's not. With all the technology put into games now-a-days, this kind of game is just boring. It's like "Myst" or, if you've even heard of it, "Congo". You have to click the mouse to move. It was the same with the "X-Files" game, but I actually enjoyed that because you were investigating, not dodging guards and avoiding alarms. If you make one mistake, that's it, you're done. You can't run or hide, you just stand there and get captured. Save you $20.00

If there were negative stars, I would put -5

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 13
Date: October 15, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Ok to sum this game up for you. It sucked. The only cool aspect was the gadets, that were still a bit tricky to use. The box is very miss leading. It makes it sound all super terrific, and it sucks. I though it might be worth a shot, and i was right, it was, it was worth a few shots from a gun, blowing it to peices. the game was not worth the ... bucks and should have been more in the "will pay you to play this game" type of range. The views were horrible. The graphings werent anything to brag about either. No go, sorry. I dont think I have ever been so dissapointed in a game. I would rate it down there with Twinsen's Odyssey.

I thought it would be ok.....it wasnt

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: October 15, 2000
Author: Amazon User

The cover was cool, the description on the box made it look worth a shot, so i bought it. Anyway, the puzzles were extremely frustrating, especially mapping out the sewers. The "good" ending wasnt. I know i should put something good in here. The gadgets in the game were pretty cool, however if this game were more like Thief Gold it would be worth the ....

An Awesome Game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: February 07, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Traitor's Gate is an excellent challenge! I have played everything from Myst and Riven, Beyond Atlantis, two of the Journeymen Project, and most recently, The Longest Journey. Traitor's Gate is most deffinitly among my top favorite games. The story line is original, well thought, and interesting. The puzzles are challenging but don't leave you completely lost. The screen interaction is easy and visual friendly. Traitor's Gate is a great game that I would recommend to anyone looking to use some brain power and have fun.

Very sweet game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: February 15, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Not sure why some of these reviews that were written didn't like the game. OK, it was a very challenging game, so maybe they couldn't figure it out. The box says (and many reviews I had read before purchasing) that this is the most realistic game out there. And they were pretty close. The graphics were splendid and the gameplay was extraordinary. You are Raven. A secret agent sent in to get the Crown Jewels and replace them with fakes. You have many gadgets at your disposal and several, several rooms to explore and each room is done in high detail as you have the ability to look around you a full 360 degrees. You will encounter some guards and you will either work your way around them or take them out with your "sleeping" darts. Either way, this game will pull you in and make you really think about what to do next. You will probably die many times and will have to try this and try that, but stick with it. You will eventually figure it out and reach Traitor's Gate.

Best Adventure Game I've Ever Played

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: February 16, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Being a major fan of Dreamcatcher, I was very excited when Daydream and Dreamcatcher released this game. This is the first Daydream game I've played and am VERY imppressed. MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIRMENTS Pentium 100 MHz (166 recommended) 32Mb RAM (64 recommended) 100Mb free hard disk space 8x CD-ROM drive SVGA monitor (16-bit color at 640x480)

Before We go on, I must say that if you want to see the cutscene properly and the game to run faster, you MUST have 64Mb RAM. I learned that the hard way.

GAMEPLAY: The gameplay is very realistic. You can tampering with a lockpick when out from nowhere (that's what it seems like anyway), appears a guard, rifle loaded. You have to always be on the alert, observing the smallest detail, making fast but smart decisions. It can be tedious in a fun sort of of way. The only frustrating part is mapping the sewers. But it's not cheating THAT much if you print off an already made map from the internet!

GRAPHICS: It's hard to decide whether gameplay of graphics are better. The Graphics are as good as (if not better than) MYST's. The only difference is that in TRAITOR'S GATE you can freely look around you using the mouse or keyboard, whereas MYST's form of looking around is click...click...click. Just to make my point clear, the graphics are GREAT.

MULTIPLAYER: This is an adventure game and no advenuture game that I know of has multiplayer.

I can't believe that this game would get a one star rating...

Fun, but not spectacular

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 25, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Five stars would be too much for this game. Sure, if you like walking through dark sewers and corridors, this is your game, but overall I found the surroundings quite dull. Nothing like the dreamy landscapes like Myst, or even the eerie cityscapes in The Longest Journey. Not the haunting atmosphere of Journeyman, just corridors, chambers en sewers. As a secret agent you must replace the crown jewels in the Tower of London, and, well, the tower is a castle with lots of corridors, as it seems. Gameplay is very straightforward and easy. Definitely print yourself a map of the sewersystem, to save yourself endless wandering around - not funny at all. Don't consider this cheating, because this is just a not well thought-out part of the game. So overall, this is not the worst game in this genre, it's funny for couple of days, but definitely not in the same category as Myst, Journeyman, Fandango or some of the other highflyers. So, if you can get it at a cutprice, buy it. If not, don't get your expectations to high up.

Turned my Mouse into a Traitor

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: March 31, 2002
Author: Amazon User

My biggest complaint about this game is the totally abysmal mouse movement. I found myself wanting to throw it at the screen, so lousy is the navigation. This game is the winner of the worst navigation plan ever conceived. I give it the Golden Blind Mice Award, only given to games that cannot figure out how to illustrate to the player any visual clues to where they are supposed to go without a cane. Even with one, you will be "tapping" your mouse so frequently without any results that you might as well put on tap shoes and dance across the keyboard waiting for something to happen. The PDA console takes up too much of the screen, the inventory methods are sloppy. This is an awful game.

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