Giveaway of the Day - The Mysterious City: Cairo

Today’s game giveaway was only released 2 weeks ago, so we’re getting a new release as opposed to just a new game. It’s the sequel to a previous giveaway Mysterious city: Prague. Some may be concerned that the developer is iWin, who have been notorious for adding ad-ware to their games in the past; however that is only from their free games site and not their commercial arm of the company. I had to install the iWin games manager and also uncheck a box to stop the installation of the iWin toolbar, before I could check out the game play. The use of the games manager is a little disappointing, but worth if for the free game. As for today’s giveaway…………….

It’s a 54.9Mb download expanding to 60Mb once installed. As usual there are no shortcuts installed with this game and thankfully no iWin games manager. You can find a tutorial for creating shortcuts for both the Start menu and the desktop if you’re not sure how to create one in the games discussion forums. I posted a link to it in yesterdays ‘mini’ review. The game may try to install itself to where yesterdays game was installed. If you changed the install path from C:/Games, make sure you check the new install path to ensure the game isn’t installed into the same folder as Magic Bricks.

I’m still recovering from my 5 day marathon download from last weekend so wasn’t really in the mood for spending too long writing reviews, that and other things meant it was too late to write a full review for Sundays giveaway. Hopefully I’ll be back on form next weekend. In the meantime I have attempted to collect together some worthwhile external reviews of the game (though there aren’t many yet due to the game being new)

Welcome to Mysterious City: Cairo, where you join your beloved professor in on an Egyptian quest to find three ancient artifacts. The pieces went missing and appear to have been stolen on their way to the museum in Alexandria. Hunt for hidden objects and uncover the clues the thieves left behind, piece together what happened, and return the lost treasure to Mysterious City: Cairo.

Reference accessed Fri 3rd April 2009

Features:
· 25 scenes to explore
· 4 challenging mini-games
· Un-lockable wallpapers
· Relaxed mode

System Requirements (minimum)

Windows XP/Vista
750 MHz processor
256 MB RAM
32 MB Video RAM
67 MB free disc space

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Reviews worth reading:

Read Gamezebo’s full review HERE

Read user comments HERE

Read Gamemile’s full review HERE

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Video:

Watch Video of Game Play HERE

Googled Images:

See Googled images of Mysterious Island: Cairo HERE

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Conclusion

I only played the game for a short time but can say apart from the images this is much like its predecessor, Mysterious City: Prague. If you liked that you’ll like this one. The only notable difference between today’s offering and Prague is the addition of the relaxed mode, that although still timed, gives you a generous amount of time (100minute) to complete your levels.

The game is definitely worth keeping if you’re a collector of Hidden Object games, though in my opinion it’s not amongst the best I’ve seen, though it will still be a keeper for me. I’d give this game 7 out of 10 for family fun and game play.

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Other Games:

The only place I’ve seen free Hidden Object games is from the Gamehouse site but those games are ad supported. They put up a new game every day, so you probably wouldn’t have long to wait for a hidden objects game. The ad’s are pretty innocuous, varying from less than 20 to up to 30 seconds in length, and can occur every few levels to only once per session.:

Get free full version Ad supported games HERE

I don’t think this one is as good as Golden Prague, but for free I will take it!
Thanks, Suki