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from: Infogrames EAN: 0020295150174 ESRB Age Rating: Mature Feature: Survival horror has entered a new Realm. A deadly computer virus is killing humans. You have been infected and have 7 days to live unless you find a cure and stop the dreadful virus from spreading. Search for clues and unlock the deadly secrets that lie between two worlds. Label: Infogrames Manufacturer: Infogrames Platform: Sega Dreamcast Publisher: Infogrames Sales Rank: 15044 Studio: Infogrames Features:
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Editorial Review: Product Description: The story The Ring: Terror's Realm begins as our happy heroine, Meg, finds that her boyfriend, Bobby, has been turned into a dead, dried-up fig of a thing. He was a husky hunk before; now, he's just a husk. Obviously disturbed, Meg emerges determined to solve the mystery by examining the line of research that Bobby was conducting at the local branch of the Center for Disease Control. At the lab, she learns that Bobby and two other recently departed staffers were running a top-secret computer program known only as [RING]. By crashing the still-running program, Meg gets downloaded into an alternate world. Decked out in nifty body armor and sporting lead-spittin' weaponry, Meg is able now to take her personal vendetta to a new level. All of this would be cool, except that Meg is tutored on how to 'off' people in the [RING] universe, and then sent off to destroy others called 'them' without any other explanation or motivation. Where's the logic in that? At first, the action is rather absorbing, and there are plenty of elements to move the plot along. As time goes by, The Ring grows tired, and the production team does little to revive it once it begins that long, slow journey into night. Late rehashing of early plot segments is tiring; being sent on increasingly trivial item-retrieval missions is worse; chugging around the game's locales again and again is tedium that becomes nearly unendurable as the game nears its conclusion. To make matters worse, the game's production values aren't enough to warrant consideration for a lengthy gameplay experience, either. Any thought of this game passing as a Resident Evil clone goes right out the window when you start firing at a creature that's right in front of you, and the bullets magically fly right through its body without leaving any damage at all.< Amazon.com Review: The story The Ring: Terror's Realm begins as our happy heroine, Meg, finds that her boyfriend, Bobby, has been turned into a dead, dried-up fig of a thing. He was a husky hunk before; now, he's just a husk. Obviously disturbed, Meg emerges determined to solve the mystery by examining the line of research that Bobby was conducting at the local branch of the Center for Disease Control. At the lab, she learns that Bobby and two other recently departed staffers were running a top-secret computer program known only as [RING]. By crashing the still-running program, Meg gets downloaded into an alternate world. Decked out in nifty body armor and sporting lead-spittin' weaponry, Meg is able now to take her personal vendetta to a new level. All of this would be cool, except that Meg is tutored on how to 'off' people in the [RING] universe, and then sent off to destroy others called 'them' without any other explanation or motivation. Where's the logic in that? At first, the action is rather absorbing, and there are plenty of elements to move the plot along. As time goes by, The Ring grows tired, and the production team does little to revive it once it begins that long, slow journey into night. Late rehashing of early plot segments is tiring; being sent on increasingly trivial item-retrieval missions is worse; chugging around the game's locales again and again is tedium that becomes nearly unendurable as the game nears its conclusion. To make matters worse, the game's production values aren't enough to warrant consideration for a lengthy gameplay experience, either. Any thought of this game passing as a Resident Evil clone goes right out the window when you start firing at a creature that's right in front of you, and the bullets magically fly right through its body without leaving any damage at all. While The Ring: Terror's Realm seemed like a good idea at the start, it just goes to show what happens when a design-and-development team has to sustain its efforts over the course of a huge amount of gameplay. What could've been a savory bowl of porridge, with all of the brown-sugar fixings, turns instead into a viscous glob of mush. --Todd Mowatt Pros:
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 Rating:  - BoringThis game is super boring and it reminds me of an old DOS PC game. Lame, and after trying it once I never played it again Rating:  - The ring is the best gameThis is one of the best games for the dreamcast that you've got to add to your collection. Get this game Rating: - A Vicious CircleThe premise of the 'The Ring' is frightfully similar to actually enduring the game itself. Based on Japanese horror movies of the same title, 'The Ring' is about a computer game of the same title which when played results in the player experiencing dizzy and fainting spells that eventually result in death. In reality 'The Ring,' as in the Dreamcast game, does much of the same. The strident music, uninspired visuals and putrid control are headache inducing and I'm positive that prolonged exposure ... Read More Rating:  - Only for die hard RING fansBeing a fan of the Japanese horror movie, this game was a must for me, if only for the plot. All three movies were excellent and I really wanted to see the story continued, and was shocked to see this game brought into America. I suppose they thought they could jump in on the survival horror band wagon with Resident Evil being so popular over here. Most people have never heard of the ground-breaking Japanese movies, although Dreamworks is in the works on an American remake, which will hopefully ... Read More Rating:  - SCARIER THAN SILENT HILL and RE!!Base on a popular Japanese manga and movie, Ring takes our heroine, Meg, on a terrifying adventure that alternates between the real world and a nightmarish parallel universe. The atmosphere and lighting effects of this game are simply so spectacular that I was really scared playing this game. The music is bone-chillingly weird and the storyline makes the player think about the morals of the human condition. And to top it off, the office building environments are modeled in 3d and NOT ... Read More |
