Nancy Drew - Secrets Can Kill

The game is great but will not play on my windows 7 or later. The older games download different on thenolder systems.

I'll be honest: I haven't actually played this disk, and have no intention to. My orignal disk got lost many years ago, and I've been collecting ND games for 11 years, and I decided it was time to fix this hole in my collection. It came in mint condition, and looks as though it is still wrapped in the orignal plastic wrap.

The game play is a little tedious, just because it makes you switch between disks in order to go from one location to the next. I lucked out and got a really old pc, so I could play this along with several other early Nancy Drew games. Thankfully, this is the only one in the whole series that makes you switch disks mid game like that. I also have the remastered version, but the original is still better in my opinion despite it's idiosyncrasies.

Exactly what I expected. This was used, so the case was a little cracked, but the CDs are in absolutely perfect condition. I will be looking for other things to buy from the same seller.

Notice this one was made by Dreamcatcher (sorry Dreamcatcher) the good ones are made by Her Interactive. Im sorry I bought this, it had unenjoyable tedious clues, artistically amateur renderings of characters (the environment art was ok) but a waste of money.

This game was not nearly as good in graphics, or plot, so if you have played only this one, all the other Nancy drew games are WAY better and please don;t think that all the rest are like this. I don't mean this review in any offense to HER (herinteractive) but this was their first game and they improved alot even between even the 1st two games.

As a longtime fan of Nancy Drew games, having currently played (and sometimes replayed) eleven different titles, this first one in the series is not all bad, everything considered. According to the publisher it's not Vista compatible (probably due to its' age); so you will likely need an older computer to run it. This can be a plus or a minus, depending on the PC system you have. Like many of the Nancy Drew games made for the PC (particularly the earlier ones in the series), they are relatively easy on computer system resources like hard disk space for installation, memory and graphics card requirements. One of the most annoying features (and difficult if not impossible to overcome) is the two installation CDs and having to switch between them to access different parts of the game. HerInteractive would have done better (and saved a lot of users' tempers) to design it so that the disks were needed for installation only. There is also an annoying in-game navigation (discontinued in later releases) where the player has to pan vertically as well as horizontally to view the entire field in certain scenes. Most of the time the areas along these top and bottom edges are not interactive and contained no visual clues; but it was time-consuming and tedious to have to keep checking them *just in case*. Other than this, it was an interesting and intriguing game to play. Unlike later Nancy Drew games, it offers a third "Master" detective mode along with Junior and Senior. The often-derided cartoonish-looking 2D character graphics did not bother me in the slightest, as it was the storyline, interactive areas and puzzles which kept the game moving along. While they admittedly were not "glitzy," unlike some other 2D and 3D games of this class created during roughly that same time period they were at least well-drawn and clearly rendered. There are a lot of areas to interact with; and although some of the "evidence" and in-game hints (including cryptic encoded messages posted on walls and bulletin boards) were obviously a bit contrived and illogical, they serve to entertain and keep the interest of younger players during times of lesser overt activity. Speaking of the pre-teen crowd, this game came under fire from some more family-oriented advocates when first introduced, as it was the first (perhaps only) Nancy Drew title to directly involve the death of a potential murder victim as part of the main plot. The background music served to heighten the suspense relating to this theme at certain points during the game. Although neither graphic or gratuitous, later releases in the ND series (or at least games #1 through #10) noticeably tend towards a considerably lighter atmosphere, if more limited and predictable plot. In the end analysis, I would conclude that "Secrets Can Kill" is a worthwhile addition, just perhaps not a good *introduction* (especially for the novice adventure gamer) to the Nancy Drew series. Except for experienced die-hard gaming fans and/or those with considerable patience towards investigating mystery puzzles, it'd be better rather to go back and pick this one up only after becoming acquainted with the more user-friendly interfaces and mechanics utilized in ND #'s 2 through 5 or later.

My granddaughter liked it but finished it in 2 hours Had a little trouble finding a computer that would down load it..