Atlantis 3: The New World

I just discoverd this part is also available on gog. I played the DVD version of this (which has higher resolution graphics than the version offered here, correct me if I'm wrong gog). Some things look graphically impressive considering the age of the game. Overall, the game has it's good moments but it lacks something. I got the impression the first half is better and closer to the "magic" of part 1+2. The ending is really sudden! But apart from graphics, it's not as good as the first two parts be it story, music, atmosphere, puzzles. Why they didn't take the route like an "Eno prequel" or something closer to part 2 is beyond me. I have yet to play part 4+5.

A short, relatively easy adventure game. It's definitely the worst of the series, so if you're looking into getting Atlantis games, I'd recommend you try the previous titles. The plot is forgettable, voice acting is... ok at best. The protagonist was clearly voiced by an inexperienced VA with a fairly noticeable french accent. Graphically, the game is a somewhat unique experience (as are all Atlantis games) and is a strong point of this title. The puzzles are easy for the most part, with only one or two moments in the game that had me scratching my head for a while. Get it if it's on sale, it'll probably take you 3-5 hours to complete, depending on how experienced you are with adventure games. P.S. In terms of technical issues, the game works fine for me on Windows 10. The only problem I had was screen freezing during dialogue - this was a problem with how the game draws subtitles on screen and turning subtitles off fixed the issue.

I've been a great fan of all the Atlantis games ever since 1997. Of course the first two ones are the "originals" in my opinion and they are still supreme. The rest of the series are also very good, but I mainly just play them because they belong to the series and gives some small hints here and there on the whole Atlantis story. When you play Atlantis 3 you must understand that the only part that is "for real" is when you're in the desert. While entering the portal world, everything is partly imagination and dreams and a greater force is connecting these dreams with reality. Same as in Atlantis 2 where the pathfinder guy is telling you "Well, for YOU, this is real" (or something similar). Atlantis 1 was 100% real and both 2 and 3 is connected to the first game in some very abstract ways. You will not really get proper answers on anything so you have to come up with your own understanding of everything. And that's what makes this game great as well. Use your learnings from the previous games and try to connect part of them to get more understanding. I still don't really get that much even after all these years, but I love them because of that. The biggest disadvantage with this game is the very abrupt ending. I'm always expecting something spectacular like from the first two, but this just ends when you're looking for the goose bumps. I try to see it like this: "It's just a sub-story of a random archeologist that get in touch with the Atlantis world, you should not care much about her. Now you know a bit more, go play Atlantis 4 and 5 to see what will happen next".

I didn't particularly enjoy this one. The story is weird (and I normally enjoy sci-fi stories, even bad ones) and the main protagonist sounds like they used a voice synthesizer instead of a real person (the English version).