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Safecracker
- January 01, 2000 00:00 AM PST
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In the movies, when the bad guys bust a safe, it's always a crucial, climactic, exciting part of the story. But what if you had to do it over and over again, like some hypercompulsive SimThief? That's Safecracker.
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This new crook "sim" has you breaking into safe after safe, with the goal of gaining the clues and skills necessary for cracking the ultimate high-tech vault: the F-9-12. Using Apple's QuickTime VR for its display, the game is easily navigable-you just click and drag the direction you want to turn-and there are such niceties as panoramic views and zooming. But QuickTime is much more impressive on a Web site than as a gaming platform, and if you're already using QuickTime 3.0, you still have to install the game's version 2.1.2 in order to play.
The sound effects and music are well done, adding to the dark ambiance of the house you explore, but the lack of a solid story left me hanging. About the only interaction you have is with the safes, most of which require solving a mind puzzle to "crack." Some of these, such as a jukebox safe where you have to match singers to their songs, are clever. Others, like a safe that requires you to solve a jumbled-image puzzle, aren't. (Remember those puzzles where one plastic square was missing and you had to rearrange all the others? Well, they were annoying then and they're annoying now.)
Safecracker is an easy game to get started and to get around in, and it's light on the system requirements. But if you want to do more than wander room to room cracking safes by solving (somewhat difficult) puzzles, wait for a game with the right combination of mental intrigue and fun.
