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Safecracker | 
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| From: Dreamcatcher Interactive
Category: Video Games
Buy New: $29.99
New (3) Used (1) from $25.00
Rating:  3 reviews
Platform: Nintendo Wii
Genre: pinball_games
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Edition: Standard
Batteries Included: No
Age: 5 - 20 years
Operating System: XXX
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: 51992
Model: 51992
UPC: 625904519924
EAN: 0625904519924
Release Date: December 2, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | A challenging puzzle adventure game with 35 unique safes to crack | | • | Many creative and clever puzzles that are truly unique | | • | Explore over 30 lavish and intriguing rooms of an extravagant mansion | | • | Decipher unexpected clues inside each safe that will help you open the others ultimately leading you to the master safe | | • | Non-linear approach to exploration of the mansion and safecracking |
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Product Description
As an expert safecracker, you are hired by the wealthy family of a recently deceased billionaire to search for the last will and testament of their late relative, Duncan W. Adams. An avid safe collector and an eccentric, Adams has hidden the deed to his riches in one of the 35 safes scattered in his extravagant mansion. Players will need to use expert puzzle-solving skills to crack all 35 safes, which become increasingly difficult, to reach the final master safe and locate the hidden will. Adventure gamers will be thrilled with the transition of Safecracker to Wii. With its non-violent, family-oriented gameplay, the whole family can work together to solve challenging puzzles, all while enjoying the scenery of 40 lavish rooms in a luxurious mansion.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Challenging Puzzles found here January 4, 2009
Charles E. Breiling (Philadelphia, PA USA)
This is definitely a thinking-person's game, and also one requiring persistence and patience.
Some of the safes are no-brainers (find a key in one safe, and it unlocks another safe), many have a clever puzzle to solve (manipulate a series of switches or buttons), while some are of the "unknown code keypad" type. This last kind proved the most difficult, because there's no feedback other than not getting the code right.
My wife and I took about ten hours to get through the whole thing, and we resorted to online walkthroughs on three of the keypad safes. If you find yourself needing a walkthrough, find one that gives hints rather than just saying "the code is 1234," to make the game more fun.
Take note, the mansion is gloriously rendered, but it is almost all eye-candy. The only thing needed to solve the safes are the safes themselves and the items in your inventory, which almost all come from opening other safes. In other words, it's not a point-and-click adventure where you're searching for hidden hotspots.
This aspect of the game was especially well done. If you cursor over an area where you can click, the icon changes, but if you can't click there YET (because you don't have the right key yet, for example), you also get feedback, so you know that's a future clickable area.
To sum it up, the puzzles require creative thinking (a few real out-of-the-box puzzles), persistence, and patience (and some paper for taking notes, to help discover patterns). The game is very rewarding if you solve the safes on your own.
 Great if you are into this sort of thing. December 23, 2008
Matthew B. Gold (Atlanta, GA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Safecracker is a point and click adventure with LOTS of puzzles. You move your player around by clicking places in the room, moving you to different prerendered spots with a 360 panoramic view. This is pretty dated, but it works well for the game. One complaint is that it takes too long to load between rooms, especially if you don't know what to do and are traversing the entire mansion looking for something. THe entire game revolves around specialty "safes" that you are trying to get into, to find clues to the whereabouts of the deceased owners will. These safes are usually just extremely difficult puzzles, some of which will take hours to solve ):
But if you love puzzles and like the idea of the game, Safecracker would make a great rental (you will finish it in a few sittings).
worth: $12
Fun puzzle game December 22, 2008
Julia Johnson (Fishers, IN United States)
This is a fun puzzle game. My boyfriend and I (we're middle-aged) really enjoyed solving the puzzles together. The puzzles are very unique and it's satisfying when you figure out the answer. It was very addictive. Only one complaint: we finished it within 24 hours (2 sittings) -- I wish it could have lasted longer. Oh well -- I'll give it to my brother now and he'll enjoy it too. This game is very much like Myst, et al -- only with mostly just different types of safes.
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