Hidden Mysteries: Civil War
A challenging hidden object game in a Civil War setting.
“Four score and seven years ago…” Are you a history buff or do you just enjoy a great challenge? Then this is the perfect game for you. In Hidden Mysteries: Civil War you get to travel back in time and visit the great battlefields of the Civil War. As you travel through the game you join General Walker, a loyal follower of Abe Lincoln, and collect clues and letters left by a secret society.
I found this game for 99¢ and I am glad that I didn’t have to pay full price for it. I am not saying it is a bad game but it is a little bit frustrating sometimes. Some of the objects were very hard to find and almost impossible to see, especially when you’re not playing in full screen mode. The best way to find some of the objects was to just keep clicking around the screen. Luckily, since I was playing in relaxed mode I didn’t have to get time taken away by clicking on the wrong objects like in other hidden object games. I haven’t tried it but I think it’s almost impossible to win the game in timed mode. Another thing I didn’t like about the game is it’s really hard to get more hints. You only get three hints per year and the only way to get more is to win the mini minesweeper style game.
As for playing the game with my HeadMouse Extreme and KeyStrokes it worked okay. When I was in full screen mode the keyboard doesn’t show up and neither does the dwell panel. As long as the dwell was on I didn’t have too many problems with the game in full screen mode. There is only one part of the game which I couldn’t do and that was the part where you have to decode a letter. You have to drag the alphabet letter to the right symbol to unlock the missing letter. It wouldn’t let me drag the letter any way I tried so when I was at that part in the game I needed somebody else to come over and use the regular mouse.
This game is actually kind of fun once you get the hang of it. I finished it in about two days but I couldn’t have done it without the help of GameZebo. It is a great website with lots of tips and hints of where to find some of the objects. So if you are up for a great challenge then gear up for a trip back in time and play Hidden Mysteries: Civil War.
Free demos for both the Mac and Windows are available. Click on the Big Fish Games logo below to get the free demo.
System Requirements:
Windows
- Window 2000/XP/Vista
- 1.0 GHz
- 256 MB RAM
- DirectX: 9.0
- 94 MB Hard Disk Space
Macintosh
- 10.4, 10.5 (recommended)
- 1.83GHz
- 512 MB RAM
Elsha Stockseth
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