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Overview
Game developers may well have the most demanding jobs in the world of PC computing. Unlike those who wrestle with word processors and spreadsheets, gamers know they don't have to put up with software that's buggy, boring or difficult to use -- the market is vast and highly competitive, and there's always something better coming along.
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That said, it's interesting that a software giant accused of monopolistic practices has repeatedly proven itself worthy in the cutthroat game market. With hits like Age of Empires and Midtown Madness, 'cult classics' like The Neverhood, and the upcoming Asheron's Call and Age of Kings, the folks at Microsoft have shown they know good game development when they see it.
Microsoft Pandora's Box is a puzzle game -- surprising in itself, since this genre is all too often pushed aside in favor of real-time strategies and first-person shooters. The storyline (also a surprise in a puzzle game) is quite basic: Pandora's box of troubles has broken apart, and the pieces have been hidden throughout the world by seven legendary trickster characters. Your job is to find the pieces by solving visually-oriented puzzles, reassemble the box and trap the tricksters inside. The game boasts over 350 separate puzzles with worldwide themes, based around ten core puzzles created by Alexey Pajitnov, and it gets full marks for addictiveness. In fact, as I write this I keep muttering, 'No, not just one more puzzle. This review is already late as it is. Bad reviewer, no biscuit.'
Gameplay, Controls, Interface
When you begin the game, you are shown a map of the world and a city where one of the missing box pieces is hiding. Travel to that city and you will be presented with ten puzzles; one of them conceals the piece. To add a little luck to the chase, some of the puzzles also conceal special tokens -- Hint tokens, which give you a specific hint about one piece of the current puzzle, and Free Puzzle tokens, which allow you to solve the current puzzle completely. You also earn a Free Puzzle token automatically after solving ten puzzles. As the game progresses, the puzzle challenges become more difficult, so it isn't a bad idea to go easy on the tokens at first. There are also Speed Challenge puzzles, which offer you a bonus if you complete the puzzle within a specific time period. Once you've found the missing piece in one city, proceed to another until you've found all four pieces of a side of the box. Then you must find the trickster and play a challenge puzzle to capture him or her inside the box again. If you'd prefer to skip the storyline altogether and just get straight to the puzzles, there's also a Puzzles Only option.
The ten puzzle types are Find and Fill, where you find a hidden object among a mixture of outlines and fill it in with color; Focus Point, where you swap scrambled pieces to assemble a picture; Image Hole, where you match moving holes to the objects in the hidden image; Interlock, a puzzle based on tangrams; Jesse's Strips, a series of trays containing interlocking strips of images; Lens Bender, where you move the pieces under lenses to figure out where they go; Outer Layer, where you re-assemble the 'skin' of a three-dimensional object; Overlap, where you compose a picture using overlapping jigsaw-like puzzle fragments; Rotascope, similar to a circular Rubik's Cube; and Slices, another three-dimensional puzzle where stacking slices create an object. After having talked with several people who have played Pandora's Box, I've noticed that there's at least one puzzle type they can't stand, but it varies from person to person. For example, I cannot stretch my brain around all but the most simple Rotascope puzzles, so I skip them whenever possible. Another friend can't stand Image Hole; yet another thinks Find and Fill is an exercise in futility. Thankfully, the game has enough built-in flexibility to allow you to skip almost all the puzzle types you don't like.
The controls are highly intuitive, and about as simple as it gets -- completely mouse-driven. About the only time you need to touch the keyboard, in fact, is to enter your name as a new player. With most puzzles, you left-click on a piece of the puzzle to select it, right-click to turn or flip it if necessary, then left-click again to place it. Just in case the objective isn't immediately obvious, however, you get the option of an interactive tutorial when you try a new puzzle type. You don't even need to worry about saving your game -- the program does it automatically for you when you exit.
The look of the game itself is worth mentioning; few interfaces have been created with such loving care as is in evidence here. With its Art Nouveau styling; textures of marble, mahogany, birch and walnut burl with dovetail joints and brass detailing; and an old-fashioned, parchment-colored world map (complete with swimming sea monster); the interface of Pandora's Box has a moneyed, tasteful look reminiscent of a late 19th century gentleman's study.
Graphics
To create the puzzle graphics, Microsoft's development team drew on a not inconsiderable pool of pictures from Corbis and other visual image galleries. I'm not certain who made the final decisions about which images to include -- but whoever it was has impeccable taste (want to come help me spruce up my house?). The completed puzzles show skylines, bridges, churches and mosques, paintings both ancient and modern -- even three-dimensional statuary, masks and objets d'art. In part, this is a satisfying game to play because of the quality of the finished images.
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Audio
The narrator, who introduces each trickster character and directs your next move, has a wonderful folk-storytelling style that is not out of place. With each recovered piece of the box, she adds an additional section to the trickster tale in progress, spurring on your efforts to complete additional puzzles.
The background music is top notch. Each area of the world has its own distinctive leit motif -- a Mozart-esque piano and orchestra in Europe, a salsa beat in Latin America, a stately koto and gong in Asia, a fusion of New World tunes in the USA and Canada -- and each is notable without being overbearing. Even while struggling with the most frustrating puzzle, I never once felt the need to turn the music off, although there is an option to do so.
Sounds within the puzzles themselves are crisp and appropriate. Pieces in the Rotascope 'shloop' from one space to another, objects under the lenses in Lens Bender 'shing' back and forth and 'tok' into place. I especially liked the satisfying snap-lock sound of a correctly placed puzzle piece in Jesse's Strips. (I know, it sounds nuts, but you'll understand when you play.)
System Requirements
Required: Multimedia PC with Pentium 100 processor, Windows 95/98/NT (SP3), 16 MB RAM (32 MB for Windows NT), 120 MB hard drive space (w/additional 50 MB for swap file), 4X CD-ROM drive, SVGA with 1 MB VRAM, mouse.
Recommended: 32 MB RAM (64 MB for Windows NT), audio board, speakers
Bottom Line
It's always encouraging to see a new puzzle game, but a real treat to see one as well-designed and well-executed as this. It isn't perfect, but it's close. With a sleek, elegant interface and addictive gameplay, Pandora's Box may well be just what starving puzzle game fans have been longing for; with any luck, it may encourage more quality entries into this almost forgotten genre.
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Description of Pandora's Box
Tetris creator Alexei Pajitnov's latest creation is a wonderful compilation of puzzles with jaw-dropping graphics and wonderful music culled from around the world.
Most puzzles are clever jigsaw variants made possible only with today's technology. It's also got a creative grand plot: seven Tricksters have escaped from the legendary Pandora's box of Greek mythology, and it's up to you to travel to various cities to find and capture them before they wreck havoc in the world. Although most puzzles are simply jigsaw variations, the great graphics and educational value (learning about various world myths has never been more fun) will keep Pajitnov fans happy.
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Pandora's Box is not his most creative work by any means, but it's not just a superficial collection of pretty pictures either.
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Comments and reviews
Shaz2021-07-301 point
I had Pandora's Box Puzzle Game on disk. I played it so much and learnt heaps. I love it.
I recommend parents download this and the children will learn of different art, cultures and countries, all whilst honing their logic skills.
Thank you for a beautiful app.
RichXTuta2021-07-160 point
Guys - if you're not able to get Outer Layer to work - mine worked by setting compat to XP Service Pack 3 - and it seems to be showing as disable full screen optimisations - try both on and off. Worked for me!
Forester12021-07-150 point
Hi! I have the same issue with Outer Layer. Apparently no fix or workaround? For those installing from downloaded files, that folder HAS TO REMAIN WHERE IT IS after installation. If you move, rename, or delete it, you will get the request for the CD. Even though it is installed it is using that old folder as the CD. It installs that path as the CD path.
the better2021-05-190 point
you are not so clever
Momchil Andonov2021-05-130 point
This is a masterpiece game which definitely deserves a remastered version but sadly no one figured it out except me!
Gakkun2021-05-100 point
Aiko, thank you for the comment! I had this game on my computer since 2018, but when I wanted to continue playing it today, it would request a CD. I even tried an original CD I still have, but it didn't work. I found this thread and downloaded the ISO, then converted and mounted it and chose the 'Reinstall' option in the setup menu. Then I just copied the save file I had previosly (it's .ply, if anyone's wondering like I was) and it worked like magic!
Slayers1132021-01-061 point
I have the exact same problem as Junebug. The game's working perfectly, but in Honolulu where the outer layer puzzles start showing up, I'm stuck.
The puzzle is missing all pieces from the left, the object itself is black where the pieces are missing, and whenever I click anywhere where the cursor has a Design+ next to it, the game crashes.
I've tried reinstalling, but not working still.
I have not found any forums or pages on the web, which could have a solution, so if anyone manages to solve it please help!
Thanks
Atheseus2020-11-112 points
This game is fab I played it years ago and loved it
SaphirasDragon2020-09-23-2 points
I have downloaded the Virtual Clone Drive and the Magic ISO. When I go to install the game it says media authentication failed and exits set up. How do I get it to finish downloading? I played this years ago on XP and it was fantastic. I want to be able to play Pandoras Box again. Thank you.
Junebug2020-09-082 points
Got it yeaaaaah
the game is working ☺
but the Outer Layer doesnt work, when I open it, the game closes.
Anybody else with this problem?
Junebug2020-09-080 point
Hey guys,
I just downloaded Pandoras Box and Clone Drive. I installed the game. When I want to start it, the computer is loading but nothing happens. I tried different Windows compability modes. I use Windows 10.
Any ideas?
Please help me ☺
PS: sorry for my bad English :-D
user No. 123122020-09-061 point Bully game mac.
this was incredibly easy to get this game to work, i got the ISO version and just slapped the mdf into a mdf to iso converter, and the game ran perfectly, except for the cut scenes. when a cut scene starts the audio works just fine, but none of the visuals load, only showing a black box. is there any way i can fix this, or is this a known issue?
Brig2020-08-161 point
I followed Aiko's advice and installed the ISO file, after using a free MDF to ISO app, and then VirtualClone Drive to run and yet still sometimes when I run the program it said it needed the CD. What I do then is run the ISO file again via a desktop shortcut and choose play and it works fine. Would be nice if I could just use the program shortcut but this works at least ;)
Mal2020-07-182 points
I had this game years ago and it was brilliant x
Zoe2020-05-06-2 points
Hi, everything i try to download this game onto my asus laptop with windows it never works. How do i do this please i have been trying for ages with no joy.
Aiko2020-04-2820 points
So I was really struggling to make this work, and it finally worked and I feel so happy! So here's how I did it:
Problem: It kept saying a disk needed to be inserted.
I downloaded the English ISO file download (includes .mdf and .mds files).
I used a program called Magic ISO (search online, free download) to convert the .mdf into .iso file.
I used another program Virtual CloneDrive (also free download) to mount the converted ISO file, then it acts as if there is a CD and I run the CD and I can install and play the game!
Look up guides if you can't figure out how to use the above programs to do those steps.
I did this after a lot of experimentation and Googling and fiddling around. I really hope this helps someone as I wish a solution had been posted when I was trying. Enjoy~
Yo2020-04-14-9 points
How do you get Pandora's box to work on a android
Mr.Blue2020-04-070 point
Tank's a lot.
Keep safe.
Best Regards
fatemeh2020-03-261 point
i love this game but it isnt work
it s keeping to say you need cd :((((
fateme2020-03-120 point
my device is windows 10 i download pandora but when i want to install it it says that you should put cd on it
i havent any cd
what should i do
demi912020-03-092 points
i have tried to download and install the game yet it keeps coming up saying that it needs the disc to be inserted correctly and then it wont let me do anything else i have downloaded a nocd file but still not working. PLEASE SOMEONE HELP ME!!!!!
MERCUSYS2020-03-040 point
For ' WARNING: DirectX Setup failed..' and 'Media Authentication Failed, quitting setup' errors, you have to set the compatibility mode for the installer to Windows XP, and later on the game exe itself.
If you're installing on 64bit Windows, for NOCD patch to work you have to edit the registry ini like this:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREWOW6432NodeMicrosoftMicrosoft GamesPandora's Box1.0]
'CDROMDIR'='.'
pandorikai2020-02-16-1 point
oh, never mind. i tried the iso version and it worked. ah, nostalgic..
Pandorikai2020-02-150 point
Hi, my problem is that just as it's finishing installing, it automatically uninstalls. What do?
Land before time 2 free download torrent. Gamez2020-02-012 points
I was able to download it by first downloading the Registry Fix and the Patch, and then The full game. I forget if I downloaded ISO or the Full Rip Version. Probably the ISO because everything is in French which can make it hard to know what buttons you're clicking on, but once you get started its pretty easy.
gavroskylo2020-01-15-1 point
load the ISO (https://www.myabandonware.com/game/pandora-s-box-dbx#download) with Alcohol120 or daemon tools. Install. Apply the patch and play
Pandora2020-01-011 point
The game is working perfectly fine.
Charlie Tuna2019-12-020 point
I have the original CD from Microsoft but it will not load correctly. I sure would love it if I could get it too load.
7755ian2019-11-26-1 point
Doesn't work..didn't really think it would. Avoid
PC CHILD2019-11-251 point
Oh.. my lord. I literally am crying tears of joy. I've been looking for this game for so long now - it's the first game that I ever played as a child. SUCH good memories. Thank you!!
prostheticgirl2019-11-22-1 point
Has anyone been able to successfully run this game?
Peter2019-11-043 points
@SADPANDA run regedit, HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftMicrosoft GamesPandora's Box1.0 and change CDROMDIR to a dot
lynnhairdo2019-09-130 point
cannot download game i have the directx downloaded but still come error created direct draw surface its has played before.help please love love this game
Varshu2019-08-171 point
I love pandora's box
sadpanda2019-07-143 points
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This game says it won't work without a CD inserted : c
Diehl2019-06-09-1 point
I cant install the game. When i try it, i receive a message saying ' WARNING: DirectX Setup failed..' and after that, i receive this 'Media Authentication Failed, quitting setup'. Can someone help me?
RichGlad24@gmail.com2019-05-15-1 point
It says i need the Product ID code when i tried to download the game!
Geodude2019-04-050 point
Hey, Clyde, Gamefix is blocked by my ISP. Would you mind uploading it on Megaupload or any other website? I really miss this game and can't find my damn CD anywhere, must have been lost when I moved years ago.
Clyde3D2019-04-030 point Drama pdf raina.
It needs a NOCD Crack. Go to gamefix to obtain it. Gamecopyworld and megagames have lousy non-working cracks!
Love Pandora2019-03-281 point
Still won’t work! Tried everything! REPEATEDLY!!!
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