The mouse cursor helps to provide visual cues for player actions and movement. Revelation also features a "Zip" mode, which allows a method of rapidly crossing explored areas by skipping intermediate nodes areas that can be instantly traveled to are stored as thumbnail representations for rapid movement across Ages. Players cannot move freely across each Age instead, as in the previous games in the Myst series, they travel by clicking set locations called "nodes", where players can rotate their view in any direction. Players explore interactive worlds known as Ages by using the mouse or keyboard, solving puzzles and uncovering the game's narrative. Myst IV: Revelation is an adventure game in which the player experiences gameplay from the eyes of an unnamed protagonist referred to as the Stranger.
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Revelation is the last game in the Myst series to use both prerendered backgrounds and full-motion video the final game in the series, End of Ages, is rendered in real-time throughout. Publications such as Computer Gaming World took issue with the control scheme of the game. Overall, reception to the game was positive reviewers lauded the impressive visuals, sound, and puzzles. Musician Peter Gabriel lent his voice and a song to the game's audio the original score was written by Exile's composer Jack Wall. The player ends up traveling to each brother's prison, in an attempt to recover Atrus' daughter Yeesha from the brothers' plot.ĭevelopment of Revelation lasted more than three years Ubisoft had up to 80 employees working on the game. Almost twenty years earlier, Atrus' two sons nearly destroyed all of his linking books and were imprisoned Atrus now wishes to see if his sons' imprisonment has reformed them. The player is summoned by Atrus, a man who creates links to other worlds known as Ages by writing special linking tablets. The plot of Revelation follows up on plot details from the original Myst. Like Myst III: Exile, Revelation combines pre-rendered graphics with digital video, but also features real-time 3D effects for added realism. Exile was later ported to DVD-ROM for the 10th Anniversary collection.
Riven had been released as a DVD-ROM, but only after its first 5-cd version. Revelation was the first game in the series to be initially released on a DVD-ROM format at launch a multiple CD-ROM version was not produced as it would have taken twelve compact discs to fit the data. Myst IV: Revelation is an adventure video game, the fourth installment in the Myst series, developed and published by Ubisoft.