Escape 3: The Emerald Star

Escape The Emerald Star
by PopCap/Spintop Games - June, 2011

Series links: Escape 1: Rosecliff Island, Escape 2: Whisper Valley, Escape 3: The Emerald Star

Available at:
Spintop Games
Big Fish for PC and Mac
GameHouse
iWin



While vacationing on the Emerald Star cruise liner, you awake to find  the ship abandoned and in complete disarray. You're alone and lost at  sea. Can you find your way to shore?

To survive, you will need  to locate over 2,200 objects in 25 intriguing scenes. Solve 7 unique  mini-game puzzles and piece together fragments of a map to help you  navigate back to civilization. Track down the hidden anchors in each  scene to unlock two bonus game modes. But hurry — the ship is drifting  and time is running out!

• Fantastic gameplay
  
• Incredible atmosphere
  
• Escape from the cruise ship!
  

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Developer: PopCap Games

Not If You Paid Me
 

BASED ON COMPLETED GAME

Let’s see... Monochromatic distorted images, check. Static scenes with a little interactivity, check. Boring game formula of 25 levels with each HO scene visited 3 times and 1 very easy puzzle at the end of each level, check.

Ah, yes, we have another game in the Escape series!

If your thing is PURE HO with at most a few EASY PUZZLES and only a hollow shell of a STORY (and I’m not denying the place of such games, not everyone wants to be dragged through a mental ringer), then this game might appeal to you.

But you could do better. I’m no fan of the Big City Adventures or Amazing Adventures series, but they are both more appealing than this one, which offers you little in the way of eye candy, no personality, nothing but drudgery really.

Still interested, okay, well the good news is, this game has a timer, points for fast finding, and collectibles that unlock a free play mode.

The puzzles, while easy (match 3, jigsaw, rotate tiles, word search), are still fun, and for me, the best part of the game.

None of which is enough to sell me on a game that falls so far short on imagination and emotion.

I Don't Recommend This Game!