Golden Trails 3: The Guardian's Creed

Golden Trails: The Guardian's Creed
by Awem - June, 2012

Series links: Golden Trails 1: The New Western Rush, Golden Trails 2: The Lost Legacy, Golden Trails 3: The Guardian's Creed

Available at:
Awem as Premium Edition / Standard Edition
Alawar as Premium Edition / Standard Edition
Big Fish as Standard Edition only
GameHouse as Premium Edition / Standard Edition
iWin as Premium Edition / Standard Edition



Golden Trails 3: The Guardian’s Creed game is the third installment in the Golden Trails series and a mix of hidden object and puzzle. Intriguing storyline, awe-inspiring mysteries of the Templers, and tons of engaging puzzles await. Are you ready to find out the secrets of the Templar Order?

This time the events take place in France in the beginning of the 18th century. Golden Trails 3: The Guardian’s Creed opens as Jacques is knocked out by a stranger in a Parisian street. When he regains consciousness in a bar, he finds a strange seal on his shoulder. Where does it come from? Who did it and why?

Join Jacques in his daring and full of dangers adventure as he tries to solve the mysteries of the seal. Scour numerous locations, travel Europe from Paris to Vatican, explore ancient writings of the monks, and solve tricky puzzles in search of the truth. Help Jacques revive the Templar Order and guard its beliefs as you locate hidden items and solve ancient riddles. Struggling against the Black Templers, hunt for the lost treasures of the Templar Order and more await in Golden Trails 3 game!

Get ready to start your adventure with our hidden object adventure game Golden Trails: The Guardian’s Creed.

• Travel around Europe
  
• Over 30 locations to explore
  
• Engaging mini-games
  

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The Ultimate HO Game!
  

BASED ON COMPLETED GAME

This is NOT a Hidden Object Puzzle Adventure, even though it combines all those elements in a unique style of gameplay that it is the best of any HO GAMES I’ve seen. I find this series of three games get better with each replay, and I feel at a loss about doing them justice.

The ADVENTURE is there in the STORY, a little mystery, a little danger, some romance and a touch of greed and treachery. But you’ll not be traipsing around looking for a crowbar. Instead you’ll play a LINEAR game, where each COMPLETED HO SCENE will lead you to the next. There are also PUZZLES, but they are simple and very much a part of the HOS as well.

With this game (and the others before it in this series) you will have a number of PICTURED OBJECTS to find, some INTERACTIVE, some for INVENTORY use. You only see a half a dozen at a time, so more turn up as you find things. The items are CLEAR though CRAFTILY HIDDEN, and the GRAPHICS are EXCEPTIONAL.

Within the scene, you will also find COLLECTIBLES, in this case fleur-de-lis, which will UNLOCK REPLAYABLE HO SCENES. As well, there are MYSTERY items, which sparkle with cursor hover. (The only sparkles in the game, BTW) These make up some of the 80 odd ACHIEVEMENTS you can get. You also get to SHOOT bandits that pop up at random. They do not affect the progress of the game, but UNLOCK extra HINTS.

When all scenes in an EPISODE are complete, you will see a SUMMARY of the evidence you have discovered and the implications of it. At the end of the MAIN GAME, you will open the SECRET MISSION, a BONUS CHAPTER much like you’d find in a CE. In fact, this game COULD have been a CE without any significant changes.

The VOICEOVER is EXCELLENT, and the AMBIENT sound very well done. The MUSIC is CONSISTENT with the STORY.

You wake up in a tavern with a nasty headache and a strange tattoo. Trying to track down your assailants leads you to a mystery involving the LEGENDARY KNIGHTS TEMPLAR TREASURE. What have you to do with the Knights Templar? Does the treasure really exist? Who are the good guys, and the baddies?

Questions that can only be answered by playing this wonderful HO GAME.

GameHouse only has a Premium Edition with the following EXTRAS:

MUSIC, WALLPAPERS – Widescreen, Shooting Gallery, Developer’s Diary, CONCEPT ART.

I Recommend This Game!

Great review, JustTheFacts!

I love Awem's games and have played & replayed all of the Golden Trails series. It's been awhile ago, but I read on their site, they are supposed to come out with a HOPA.

Yes, same here - played them all several times over - it will be interesting to see how they will do a HOPA