Posted on 11/16/2001 1:24:12 PM PST by Solson
Majestic is an real life interactive adventure game made by Electronic Arts(EA) and more info can be found at http://www.ea.com/worlds/games/pw_majstc00/hatted_jump_page.jsp. Here is a description of the game:
Majestic is an episodic online entertainment experience set against the backdrop of a grand and sinister conspiracy -- an unfolding mystery adventure that uses the Internet as a canvas for its story, weaving you through both real and fictional experiences in real time. Highly personalized and naturally paced, Majestic tailors your experience specifically to you as it dynamically changes the content of Web pages, emails, faxes, voice mails and chat conversations in order to immerse each player at the very heart of a developing story. Majestic players assume the leading role in their own adventure, interacting with other characters, uncovering clues, searching for answers, collecting and using digital objects and resolving challenges to progress through the experience. Unlike other forms of entertainment, Majestic actively pursues and interacts with you based on events developing within the fiction, creating a uniquely suspenseful entertainment experience.
It's really interesting at first (I didn't have phone calls enabled, but you get random AOL IMs, e-mails, etc...really immersive) but after a while you realize it isn't that dynamic..just plods along a single path and leads you by the nose.
I'll be glad to help, to win all you need to do is send me a check in the amount of $100,000 and then you win! Always glad to help out a fellow freeper.
If you plan on playing for only a very limited amount of time (one or two hours a week), and are a major X-Files fan, then it may be worth trying. For the same money, though, you can get into UO or EverCrack, games which will consume as much of your time as you're willing to let them, and which will give you the opportunity to interact with other players (something Majestic really doesn't).
It's a so-so game. However, just this afternoon I had an interesting development. Had a "live" conversation with someone claiming to be not affiliated with the game, but who was evaluating it as a tool to disseminate information to the players. The person I spoke to mentioned that this whole game is actually based on real stuff, presented unapologetically as the truth, but then labeled fiction, so that no one will believe it. To me, it sounded like a very thoughtful ploy by EA to catch me off guard (and perhaps it happens at other times to other players), by presenting me with a live person who was saying, basically, "hey, this stuff is real!"
At the least, it offered a much more interesting diversion by having a conversation with someone who either believes this stuff, is part of the game to make me THINK he really believes it, or...dun dun dun.....it IS real! :-)
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