LADYDRAGON.COM - TRAINTEASERS

Abracadata is a company that currently does Railroad based game. Here they propose Train-Teasers Jigsaw Puzzles, like it's said, it's a jigsaw puzzles game. As they usually do, the game's theme is again train and railroad. But that's not all... now do you have the patience required?

It is the kind of game, that is a very easy-to-use game. When you start the game, a window appear and ask you to choose a puzzle within a choice of over 100 of puzzles on the disk, or a past saved game or even a puzzle from your own collection.

Now that yo have made your choice, you have a couple of options that you may want to configure. Then you can use rotation or not in you puzzle, depending on difficulty level you want. Your puzzle could be edgeless or not and you can have classic pieces or more recent kind of pieces. You can also choose the number of pieces within a minimum or a maximum defined by the picture's size. And the last option that you have to define is about the way the pieces will be spread, you have the choice between randomly or align.

Now it's time to solve the puzzle. The game in itself is well think, it lets you play on

2 different board (2 windows) and you can switch from one to the other simply by pressing one touch. You can also see the whole picture also by pressing only one touch and to switch the pieces from one board to an other, you need a click, that's all...

The graphics are good, it's sure that it is not a game that require high quality graphics, but if the resolution could be improved a little bit, it can be useful by moment. Well, it is good enough for that game. The sound doesn't add that much to the game, but they use it in a good way. In fact, when two pieces fits together, a sound like the one that happens when two wagon hooks together is heard.

In the installation of the game, a little application that lets you create your own puzzle (with a picture on your hard drive) is installed. It's a very easy-to-use application that give a must to this game. It's this application that, for myself, makes the most of the interest because it lets you create your own puzzle right from your imagination.

It's a well think game with an easy-to-use interface and a lot of possibilities. Now all you have to do is work on your patience and I think this game will help!

Company
Abracadata
www.abracadata.com

Category
Puzzle

NOTES

Interest : 85 %
Control : 90 %
Graphics : 80 %
Sound : 75 %
Originality : 85 %

TOTAL : 83 %

Requirements:

Operating System:
Windows 95/98/NT

Processor:
Pentium 60MHz or better

Memory:
16 MB of RAM

CD ROM:
Windows 95/98/NT compatible

Hard Disk:
50MB

Video card:
Windows 95/98/NT compatible

Michel Blanchette