Buy Amazing Adventures Around the World

Pros:

• High quality object hiding
  
• Varied gameplay offered by minigames between levels
  
• Extra objectives
  
• End-game unlimited modes

Cons:

• Low, non-adjustable graphic resolution
  
• No Steam integration of any kind
  
• Every now and then, a cheap trick in object hiding

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This is part of a series of hidden object (HO) games developed by SpinTop Games and published by PopCap Games between 2007-2009. To date they are my favourite of the genre.

Unlike more modern HO games where the items are often practically jumping out at you, here they are masterfully blended and conspicuous (sometimes even a little too much so.) The whole scene looks practically painted.

Each stage ends with a varied puzzle (crosswords, rotating tiles, spot the difference) that offers a little break and introduced the next level. And each level ends with a small informative blurb that I assume nobody will read, but it adds a bit of substance.

More modern HO games try to amp it up with plot and animations and a story and voice acting and what not, usually with bad results, because at the end of the day, it's a cheesy casual game and reaching for more just makes it awkward.
But this series focuses efforts on the mechanics of HO gameplay, and it shows in how well the scenes are made.

Shame about that low resolution though.

If you like to play hide and go seek on the computer then this will be a game that would be fun for you to play. Its a simple game that involve you looking past everything and just look for the little details of the pictures you are seeing. you have to find items in the picture that are listed on a list at the bottom of the picture. This game deals with traveling around the world and finding the different items in the vast places it takes you. Its a great game to start on if you are new to this type of gameplay.

I love hidden object find-it games, but this series by Popcap is terrible.
Popcap have their fair share of fun games, but these are definitely not up there. The music for me is just irritating. It’s painful to listen to, it’s very repetitive and all sounds the same. It’s all in a low tone, and honesty I have to say it barely passes for music. Nor background ambience for that matter. It’s a horrible mixture of both I suppose. I turnt all the settings down so I don’t have to listen to it, but no audio at all makes it even more boring than it already is, so I played my own music in the background. Just to try and make the game a tad bit more bearable.
The gameplay is fairly repetitive, you play the same 5 scenes over and over and over again, and it feels as if it goes on forever. To complete, it’s way too long. Or at least felt that way. It just felt like a chore to complete. I made myself finish it because usually I want to finish games I’ve started before I can move on.(anyone that knows me will know my illogical OCD-tendencies when it comes to my steam library).
Like most games, it felt so good to finish, but not in a satisfying way. Where you finish, reflect on the game and feel good about it. In a way that just made me so happy that I would never have to go near this game ever again.
If you enjoy hidden object games, don't buy these. There are much better ones you can buy. The "Midnight Mysteries" and “Samantha Swift” series were good in my opinion. I played through them quite easily. They actually have a story and is a lot more engaging. The time it took me to complete those series of games, was probably the same amount of time I spent dragging myself through this game.

As far as puzzle games go this is OK. It is pretty fun in the begininng but with time it can get boring as they use the same map multiple times. I guess if you want to play and relax it is not bad.

when you have that "there's too much going on for me to concentrate" feeling, this one is a fine time waster. was definitely worth a play through.

Dear Gods, why did I buy the Popcap Bundle? WHY?

*ahem*

Let's do this.

This game is the 6th hidden object game I have played. Like the Mystery P.I. games that I have played and reviewed, this game was produced by Spintop and published via Popcap. The objects hidden in the scenes are almost all the same, and there are only a very few which would be different.

The flavor of story accompanying this game is finding a stone tablet, which will lead to the World Gem (which looks like a ginormous refined diamond big enough to be likened to the size of a toddler). Well. That's all of a story.

I have played through the main game and the endless seeking mode for hidden objects, like I did in Escape Rosecliff Island and the four Mystery P.I. games I have played. Good Gods did that take some time.

Not recommended unless you're a junkie for hidden object games and have the necessary patience and tenacity to find everything.

...and there will be another Amazing Adventures game waiting for me. But this will be reviewed in due time.

Amazing Adventures Around the World is another fun, find-the-object game from PopCap. The game features attractive graphics but an unfortunately low viewing resolution of only 800x600 stretched to fullscreen. The gameplay is brisk, the music appropriate and their are both a collectible and bonus game added on to each one of the campaigns 25 missions. Unfortunately both widescreen resolutions and the Steam Overlay are not supported. Overall however, Amazing Adventures Around the World delivers what it promises, an entertaining albeit flawed puzzle game.

I keep nodding off while playing this game.

Similar to the other game in this series (Amazing Adventures - The Lost Tomb) this is a simple point and click hidden objects game. This one, again, sees you looking for a hidden artifact. Each screen has many items to find which then leads onto you solving a puzzle to get to the next round. The objects are very clear and very well drawn and this adventure takes you to many famous landmarks around the world. If you find the two special hidden objects on every screen then you are invited to play a mode where you can find every object on every screen. A very well implemented hidden object game that'll keep you amused for hours.