For such players, Ace Ventura will prove supremely frustrating. Jim Carrey was criticized for mugging for the camera in his movie portrayals of Ace Ventura, of twisting his face and body into odd contortions to mask the absence of real substance in the film. This game does the same thing, and as a result the replay potential of the game is nil.
A case in point: Early in the game Ace is goofing in his apartment when his landlord, Mr. Shickadance, pounds on the door demanding rent money. That's your cue to click on the doorknob, open the door and engage the landlord incidentally, this game repeatedly asks players to perform such mundane tasks as clicking on a door knob, or taking a key out of inventory, clicking that on a door, just so Ace can go through an elaborate process of digging keys out of his pocket and jingling them before opening the door -- it's supposed to make you feel involved.
Back to the scene at hand: before Ace will open the door on Shickadance, he turns to the "camera" and mugs: "Pet detective motto After the scene with Shickadance concludes, other prompts lead you to Ace's computer where, finally, you receive the clue that sets the game in motion -- Eskimos are reporting the disappearance of all their sled dogs. None of this is high comedy, for sure, but it's amusing once But my machine shut down at that point for reasons unrelated to the game.
I had to start up again and proceed again to that same point in the game. I was in Ace's apartment and I knew I had to get the clue from the computer to move forward.
I tried to steer Ace to the computer. He wouldn't go for it. Not until he went through the exact same scene with Shickadance again And there I discovered the cruel truth about Ace Ventura : you aren't allowed to skip anything.
That confused me at first -- why not let me skip a scene I had already seen if it wasn't pivotal to the progression of the game?
But I figured it out: 7th Level has built obsolescence into this game. In their planning they never intended for players to start the game from the beginning again. In fact, the story is completely linear and once you solve the mystery, you're done, that's it, it's over. So here's what it boils down to -- pay attention, cause it's pretty tricky -- you spend 30 or 40 bucks on this game, play it for a week and finally get to the end. And before your elation over the success has ebbed, your CD-ROM has become simply a worthless plastic disc unless you want to sit through the exact same scenes again, knowing the outcome all the while.
But, hey, if you're hungry for a new Ace Ventura game, it's a good bet there'll be a sequel and you can buy that. Got any more money? I've never really been impressed with games based on movies. It seems that more often than not they lack the quality of original titles, because the makers bank on the fact that fans of the movie will forgive any shortcomings in the game because it bears resemblance to or reminds them of the film.
As a result, the developers often don't put forth the same effort they would if the game had to stand on its own merits. Well, by this point it should come as no surprise to you to hear me say that 7th Level seems to be banking on the popularity of the Ace Ventura movies to carry this game.
The animation is passable, the graphics crisp. But it's simple. Two-dimensional without even the hint of an effort to create any 3D sense. And though Ace moves when you tell him to, very little else ever happens. At one point I took my hand off the mouse and just watched to see what would happen.
Ace stood in one place blinking, Spike was a wooden statue, and because Ace was on a submarine, a school of fish would periodically swim past the window. The same fish over and over again. It all had the feel of a cheap cartoon -- Speed Racer or G Force -- where characters in transit pass the same tree again and again and again I wasn't any more impressed by the audio in Ace Ventura than I was in the graphics.
Like the graphics, the audio functions, but it's just as dull as the visual elements of this game. Ace mugs it up and you get to hear lots and lots from some guy doing an adequate job of imitating Jim Carrey playing Ace Ventura.
Sid -2 points. Tried this in Dosbox with Wind 3. Whenever the game starts only noise comes out of the speaker. The Games seems to work except for the sound. Holy Grail and Waste of Time works in same windows setup. Muaddib 0 point. Gerald 0 point. You do have to follow the instructions in the folder though. Lily 2 points. Justin 2 points. Share your gamer memories, help others to run the game or comment anything you'd like. If you have trouble to run Ace Ventura Windows , read the abandonware guide first!
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Butt yodeling. It's all in a day's work. Download MB. Description of Ace Ventura Read Full Description One of 7th Level's most obscure releases before fading into obscurity, Ace Ventura is a decent cartoon adventure starring the wacky cartoon series of the same name which was popularized by a Jim Carrey movie.
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