Nip, GameVortex Communications AKA Chris Meyer Though you should be warned, this game is designed as a supplement to the material your child would get in class, it does not teach any new material, it just allows your child to practice the material more. If your child is having problems understanding the concepts behind the fourth grade curriculum, or if you have a younger child that you are hoping to give a head start to, then this game is a good buy (especially with its easy to manipulate difficulty settings). The graphics are simple sprite based systems, while the images for the sprites seem to have been made in the most basic of paint programs. These include spelling words and using masses, forces and angles to build a bridge.Ĭlue Finders 4th Grade Adventure: Puzzle of the Pyramid uses a point-and-click system to navigate through the world and to move the answers to their correct locations. To get the jewels, your child will have to add decimal numbers, arrange words to form sentences and much more.Īnd just when you think the game is about to be over, you find there is yet another set of tasks to be completed. Every time you collect 12 jewels, you must place them in one of five doors in the correct order to complete the pattern. The jobs range from finding locations on a map to sending packages, to cutting off specific fractions of fabric, to answering questions about a paragraph and more.Īfter all parts of the scroll have been translated, the next goal is to collect jewels from desert mice to gain entrance into a secret tomb and save the professor.
To earn a glyph, you must help the local shop owners in their various tasks. Your first task is to have a scroll deciphered, and to do this you must run around Cairo collecting 'Cairoglyphs'. Your job is to save the Clue Finders' absent-minded professor from the evil Sir Alistair Loveless (who, by the way, is bent on taking the power of Set and controlling the world).
The sound effects are pretty standard, while the voice-overs seem to have a large enough pool to use so that you won't necessarily hear the same words over and over again, which is always a plus for the adults in the room.Ĭlue Finders 4th Grade Adventure: Puzzle of the Pyramid puts your child in control of Joni Savage, Santiago Rivera, Leslie Clark, Owen Lam, Socrates (an extremely smart dog who can't talk, which typically wouldn't be a problem except for the fact that he is from an island of talking dogs), and Laptrap (the yellow 'Turbo T.U.R.T.L.E.').
And when the Clue Finders run into the bad guys, the standard flair of trumpets heard in many classic movies kicks up. The music stays rather low-key and while you are in puzzles, it seems to resemble Middle Eastern style music with the use of a lot of flutes.
Yet, because the main focus of the game is to hold the child's attention and get them to learn, and the less-than-system-breaking graphics seem to do that anyway, it is hard to completely dis a game for its lack of graphic prowess.Ĭlue Finders has decent sound.
Clue Finders 4th Grade Adventure: Puzzle of the Pyramid is a typical edutainment game that teaches your child the ins and outs of what he or she needs to know to make it through the fourth grade.Īs far as the graphics are concerned, the game follows the cartoon drawn style of the other Clue Finders games, that is, static backgrounds with semi-static characters that move rarely and stiffly. The Clue Finders gang returns for another adventure, and this one takes place in and around Cairo, Egypt.