On her way to the temple

Exploring the mystery

Sailing

So the solution to this enigma goes on (much too fast !!!) until Tifet finally dares to face and unmask the bad guy all of her own.

Again you can watch a beautiful animation sequence in the end, which gives us a tiny hint about a third part of the Egypt-Series, probably with Tifet as female hero again. Wait and see!

I enjoyed the game very much and would appreciate it also very much if a third game in the series would follow Egypt I and II, and I hope this new game will take the gamer on a longer road than Egypt II.

The puzzles were quite easy - of the seek-and-find category - it was just  pure joy to move within the stunning atmosphere, created by beautiful music and (in my opinion) not to be exceeded Omni-3D-graphics, to look around und to solve puzzle after puzzle very logical placed in the construction of the game.

Well, at least two puzzles I wouldn't call difficult but original and funny: in the first puzzle you have to find the exact (!!!) rhythm with two drums to get a good looking dancer to dance around and the audience to clap their hands. In the second puzzle that I want to mention, you have to pour beer from one of three different tankards into the others, to receive the exact amount of beer at the end ... well, here you have to ponder and calculate a while.

The animations are like real life movements in a way I have never seen it before in a graphic game, like the moving shadows of the columns in the temple during sunrise and sundown, the vivid cloud-around in the sky and the genuine character movements - especially the movements of the black cat incorporating the goddess Sachmet - a feast for the eyes to watch again and again. Cryo developed Omni 3D in a splendid way carrying out every tiny detail with so much devotion that you can nearly say "I think I'm in the movie!".

Of course I have to mention - after "Odyssee" and "Time Machine" - that the game is throughout mouse-driven with the exception of the drumming sequence (here you can control the left drum with any key on the left side of the keyboard and the right drum with any key on the right side of the keyboard).

Egypt II includes, like all other historical adventures by Cryo, an encyclopaedia created by experts. You can virtually browse this encyclopaedia if you are interested in details of culture, religion and every day life of this epoch of Egyptian history.

Very praiseworthy I find the fact that Cryo themselves published the game in Germany simultanously with the French and English version.

The last historical adventure by Cryo - Aztec - was published by Ravensburger Interactive in spring, 9 months later than the French version with deficient synchronization and incorrect translation of the encyclopaedia. This time, by doing it by themselves, Cryo worked it out much better!

I give the game a rating of 70% (good game, recommendable) - atmosphere and graphics and especially the animations alone would deserve this rating. Though puzzles were easy to solve they were a lot of fun. My wish would be such a game with puzzles of some higher degrees and a longer gaming experience with 6 CD's. Alas, would that be grrreeeaaat!

Rating system:

• 80% - 100%  excellent game, very recommendable
• 70% - 79%    good game, recommandable
• 60% - 69%    satisfactory, restricted recommendable
• 50% - 59%    sufficient (not very recommendable)
• 40% - 49%    rather deficient (not to be recommended - for Hardcore-Adventure-Freaks and collectors only)
• 0%  -  39%    worst (don't put your fingers on it)
  

The mystery of Sachmet

On the sly ...

Tifet is living here


Tifet as musician

Plans

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