Barrow Hill Reviews
"The visuals are very high
quality and are full of eerie shadows.."
"The music and sound effects are bound to send chills down
your spine.."
"..this is the next best thing to sleeping in a haunted
house!"
"Barrow Hill is a point-and-click adventure, much like
Myst - one of the most popular games of all time."
"Barrow Hill: Curse of the Ancient Circle may be just the
adventure for you. Be warned though, it's certainly spooky!"
Score:
4/5 - The
BBC
"Puzzles are intelligent,
fair and uncontrived. The game does an excellent job of placing
clever clues throughout the environment."
"...The game has a strong sense of atmosphere."
"...more
satisfying plot than the Da Vinci video game."
Score
76% The
New York Times - Review by Charles Herold
"Barrow Hill: Myst meets
Undying"
"It is a highly suspenseful and intriguing myth that draws
heavily from British folklore and legend."
"..excellent use of atmospheric sounds. Whispering winds,
rustling leaves, scratching in the underbrush, and the incessant
chirp of crickets."
"Barrow
Hill is a title that is absolutely "worth playing."
Pick up a copy, turn out the lights, and get yourself some quality
heeby-jeeby time."
Score:
91% - Worth
Playing - Review by Keith Durocher
"Retro thrills and chills
in an atmospheric adventure game"
"Barrow
Hill succeeds in what every good game should do: It draws you
in and keeps you playing".
"The
game is essentially non- linear and there is more then one way
to find your way forward through 15-hours-plus of Celt-adorned,
pagan nightmare."
"
If you go down to these woods today you are in for a nasty but
also a very pleasant adventure gaming surprise"
Score:
9/10 -
ForteanTimes
- Review by Nick Cirkovic
"one of the most immersive
pure adventure games I've played. Barrow Hill has two massive
strengths as an adventure game: its atmosphere and its puzzle(s)."
"The
entire game takes place at night, and you seem to be mostly
alone. Except for Ben and the voices on the radio, no one else
seems to be around. No one human, that is."
"It's the realism that makes the supernatural elements
seem so menacing, the beautifully designed, multi-layered puzzles
with their much-appreciated clues, the dark atmosphere, lovely
graphics, and the restrained, perfectly pitched sounds that
make this game an experience"
Score:
5/5 -
Four
Fat Chicks - Review by Enigma
"Playing Barrow Hill is
like reading a good mystery. It’s immersive, well-paced
and satisfying from beginning to end."
"I
have played quite a few point-and-clickers and I have to say
this is one of the most intuitive ones I’ve found."
Game
Couch - Review by Amanda
"Hiding behind its spooky
ambience and simple interface is a rich story and very solid
puzzling."
"A solid addition to the point-and-click adventure library...
The puzzles are fun and involved and all the clues needed to
complete the game are easily found throughout the various beautifully
rendered environments. The soundtrack really adds a lot of tension
and ambience to the game."
"Adventure fans would not go wrong buying this game."
Score 81% - ING
- Review by Staci Krause
"...a fun, challenging game
that maintained a good archaeological back story throughout."
"The graphics are detailed and immersive and, together
with the mood-setting ambient sounds, help convey the eerie
undertones of the storyline."
"Barrow Hill is an enjoyable game to play."
"...a very commendable job done on the archaeology within
the game..."
"I'm sure most archaeologists would definitely dig
this one!"
Internet
Archaeology - Review by Michael Charno
"It's well made, the story
is strong and engaging, and the graphics and audio effects suck
you in. It's hard NOT to enjoy this game."
"Barrow Hill has one of the best plots I've encountered
in an Adventure game"
"Barrow Hill is a visual delight..." it "just
drips with beauty from the second the game starts until it ends...""...I
can't empathize enough how much detail was put into this game."
"GRAB
IT. You won't be disappointed."
Inside
Pulse - Review by Alex Lucard
"...a fear-inducing, riveting
experience."
"Shadow Tor has certainly served up some impressive production
values in this game. They are right up there with the big studios..."
"It is a testament to the game that it allows the story
to dictate the puzzles..."
"Barrow Hill is a solid adventure that takes actual fact
and blends and warps it to its own blend of reality through
a haunting landscape and highly mysterious circumstance."
Adventure
Gamers - Review by Tom King
"The modern world watches via CCTV, the ancient world watches
through something far stranger."
"...an atmospheric Cornish tale of supernatural intrigue."
"Excellent use of sound and music."
"...spooky
ambience fills Barrow Hill."
"Things that go "bump" are always good for a
fright." "...meticulously designed, Barrow Hill delivers
a Cornish sojourn definitely worth taking."
Quandary
- Review by Steve Ramsey
"A fascinating interactive screenplay, which poses thematic
questions of what and where, while allowing the gamer to formulate
his or her theories as to why. Game play that is approximately
seventy five to eighty percent nonlinear. Puzzles and conundrums,
which are organic and integrated within the plot."
Gameboomers
- Review by Inferno
"Barrow Hill has a wonderful creepy feel to it. This deserves
a place on your shelf. The sound effects are spot-on from the
chirping of an authentic Cornish cricket to the rustling in
the bushes which doesn’t quite line up with your movement.
Are you being stalked?"
Just
Adventure - Review by Robert Washburne
"The game loads easily and plays flawlessly. It contains
a reasonable and unique plot, gorgeous graphics, and a pleasantly
unpleasant musical score. All of these elements combine to create
a chilly, eerie sense of foreboding that develops and builds
exactly as a quality plot should."
Mr
Bills Adventure Land - Review by Mark Hasley
"...Celtic
mystery..."
"...why are people disappearing, what are these tors up
to, and why can't you leave?"
"An impressive endeavor for a small group of first-time
dev's, with a shoestring budget..."
PC Gamer Magazine (UK) - Review by John Walker
"Barrow Hill offers another quality point-and-click gaming
experience that will definitely please fans of the genre".
"The plot is well written with some nice surprises and
twists to keep you playing until the end".
"Barrow Hill is another solid addition to the point-and-click
genre. The genre will never go away, especially with quality
titles such as this one coming out."
Score
76%
-
Game Zone
"your car comes to a grinding halt, and you're left to
begin your adventure in the mysterious and perpetually dark,
Barrow Hill"
Pro-G
"soak
up the creepiness"
"the best part of Barrow Hill is the atmosphere"
GameOver
"The tale is really interesting and continues to captivate."
"The graphics are splendid."
Adventure
Island 
"The story is exciting, embeded in the mystic legends of
the Celts and combined with today's time."
"Barrow Hill is a non linear game."
"The atmosphere is held sombre which emphasizes the horror
character of the game."
Adventurespiele.net
- Review by Nikki 
"One hears the fear."
"...creepy atmosphere, which is developed by an exciting
story..."
Adventure-EU.com - Review by Michael Schachinger
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