realMyst
The Adventure Becomes Real

Released: Nov 15th, 2000
Developer: Cyan Worlds
Original Publisher: Mattel Interactive
Website: realMyst

Turn off the lights. Turn up your speakers. You're about to experience what no one has ever experienced - the totally immersive, surreal, and beautiful adventure of Myst in realtime 3D. realMyst creates a living, breathing world that will truly become your own - and one you will never forget.

realMyst is the ultimate directors' cut of Myst in real-time 3D. Cyan's first ever real-time 3D game, it brings the breathtaking words of Myst to life.

No longer in a "slide show" format, players are free to wander through the five Ages of Myst wherever they please. Every object in the game has been faithfully recreated so that you can move around and look at it from every angle. You can "pick your own path through the forest on Myst island, look lazily upward into the Channelwood trees... or hurry out of the thunderstorm on Stoneship." Everything in the game is the same as it was before, but now everything is alive.

See weather patterns and day/night cycles, sails blowing in the wind, and countless creatures on the ground, in the air, and in the water. As an added bonus, all footage of Atrus has been re-filmed at a much higher quality.

The final bonus for Myst fans is the new Rime Age, given to you on the completion of the normal game, which adds some extra story between Myst and Riven.

See this page for a comparison between the Myst and realMyst graphics.

Screenshots

Myst Island

The Mechanical Age fortress

Sirrus' room in Channelwood Age

Forest in Selenitic Age

Stoneship Age

The new Rime Age (only in realMyst)

Box shot courtesy amazon.com
Images © 2000 Cyan, Inc.