Timeline for Windows
- ESRB Rating: E - (Everyone)
- Publisher: Eidos Interactive
- Genre: Action Adventure
- Platform: Windows
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A Very Disappointing Product
Well, Eidos and Timeline Computer Entertainment has brought us a hell of a game based on a best-seller book with the same name by Michael Crichton, the same person that brought us ER and Jurassic Park. The game is a first-person adventure in which you get into a time machine and travel to... Read full review »
Stick to the book!
Michael Crichton's second attempt at designing a computer game has failed miserably. With Amazon, published in 1984, he complained that the technology was not ready. With his latest fiasco, Timeline, a game that attempts to turn a blockbuster standard-Crichton novel into a historical... Read full review »
Crichton's Pet Failure
Michael Crichton is my favorite author, and Timeline is probably my second favorite book. But the Timeline game is just so irredeemably bad that there is no hope for salvation.
You play a team of... people sent back in time to 14th century France rescue their... professor. Or a professor...
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May be fun for kids, not for PC gamers.
Michael Chrichton's at it again! Only he's advanced his book writings to his own computer game. Chrichton has just finished his game, and it seems to be like a real winner. The box, if you look at it, looks awesome. What would be funner than going back in time to Medieval France? Fighting knights,... Read full review »
Thrilled me to sleep!
I first got this game as a Christmas present from my parents who have read the book before. I have also read parts of the book, and thought it was great. It had a good plot and was even thrilling in some parts... This was not the case with the game.
My first problem arose right after I had...
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Fun for Kids and Mom
My daughters insisted I buy this game since we all love ER. I must say that Mr. Crichton sure knows how to create an engaging TV show, and now an engaging game!
Timeline is an adventure game that takes you back in time to rescue a professor stuck in 14th century France. The game was very...
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FINALLY- A GAME FOR THE REST OF US!
I bought Timeline last week, and I have to say that my family LOVES this game. The graphics are incredible, and its easy enough for both old Dad (me) as well as my son and daughter to play. Even my wife has gotten into it, especially The Tour part of the game which provides fascinating detail about... Read full review »
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Timeline
Creator of Jurassic Park and ER Product InformationAdded Bonus: Also Includes The Paperback" Timeline by Michael Crichton". Timeline is based on the Michael Crichton novel of the same name and was developed by Timeline Computer Entertainment.As Timeline begins you are being trained in the protocols and procedures for time travel. You are Chris Hughes a graduate student who must travel to 14th-century France to rescue his professor. The game skips much of the buildup in the book including the pseudoscience that explains the theory of time travel the suspense that leads up to the disappearance of the professor and any explanation of just who these characters are. You are simply thrust into a world where time travel is possible and you are about to do it.Once you reach 14th-century France a major setback threatens to cause problems with your mission plan. In any other game this would be the event that triggers a whole series of events.You are part of a team of archeologists excavating a historic region of modernday France. Your team leader Professor Johnston has mysteriouslydisap peared leaving behind an unexpected videotape addressed to you with animperative request. Now you must travel back to fourteenth century Franceto rescue him. And the adventure begins...Rethink what is possible!Product FeaturesStory- driven Michael Crichton's novel is brought to life! Experience the vivid realism thrilling exploration and unexpected suspense of his most dramatic adventure story since Jurassic Park.Interactive world Travel back in time to 14th Century feudal France to rescue your professor and experience first-hand a perilous interactive world of knights jousts and castles. Immersive environments Experience diverse and realistic environments ranging from the dungeons and great halls of 14th Century French castles to the excitement of jousting tournaments and the thrill of exploring underground rivers
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