The Experiment to Release February 5th, 2008

The Experiment (previously known as Experience 112 and Experiment 112) will be shipping to retail stores in North America on February 5th.

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This upcoming adventure title for Windows®, has a suggested retail price of $29.99 USD and the ESRB Rating is ‘T’ (Teen).

For more information, visit the game's webpage at The Adventure Company here.

Thanks Becky....it's great to see a new release.

Ana

yes can t wait play this one to .

Thanks for the update! I've been looking forward to the official release.

I just wanted to warn that the system requirements are pretty high for this game. I don't think the requirements listed on the TAC page are appropriate. The requirements given from Micro Application are much more accurate (2.0 GHz processor, 1 gig of RAM, and a 128 MB video card).

You can try the demo out for yourself. While it may seem to work on lower end systems, the game will not run without noticeable lag.

This is unfortunate for me, as I love the original concept of this game. The demo is really incredible. I haven't seen an adventure game this unique and interesting since Penumbra: Overture (which I also had problems running).

5th February, that's not long to wait at all! Thanks Becky, this game does sound interesting.

Thank you very much for the update Becky, one in my list


Spyros

I have tried everything I could to get this demo to run and it just won't. So, there's no way I would ever buy a game that the demo wouldn't even play. I have bought games that the demos worked, but the game wouldn't (without a LOT of tweaking) but never the reverse.

Hey, if you remember looking at the Webpage for this one (demo) the specs/requirements say for OS/Vista (no mention of XP) so I assume it will only run on Vista.....not for me then.
Love, Betty Lou

Betty Lou- it has xp on it:
copied from the site

* OS: Windows® Vista™/XP
* Processor: 1.5 GHz Pentium® 4, AMD® Athlon® or Equivalent
* Memory: 512 MB of RAM
* Video: 64 MB Graphics Card, Supporting Vertex and Pixel Shader 1.1, Compatible with DirectX® 9.0c Sound: DirectX® 9.0 Compatible
* Hard Disk Space: 1.4 GB of Free Space
I m looking at the down load now--- sure taking a long time-

Nevermind getting the demo to run , I can't get it to download.
When I click on the download button on the News page the download page comes up for an instant then disappears. Can some one provide me with a link to the download page?

Ispace, try the demo beside the game in the "Latest & Upcoming Adventure Games" section that you can go to on top of this page.

Tried it again last night and the download and the install were OK.

Hope it will work for you.

Chief

Thank you Chief, that one works.

Worked for me also.

Sounds like an interesting game Becky. Thanks for the good news.

Aha, yes. Well I went up top here, found demo download (more than 2 hours) and set it up to accept it and went to bed...naturally it was done when I got up this AM. Have installed it and 'launched' it and sat and watched the opening video/cutscene - it runs BUT it is like watching a movie but only one frame at a time - Marie moves with slow jerky movements and using my arrow cursor is tricky, takes forever to get it to where I want to click and then have to wait and wait and wait for its response or reaction. I got as far as wondering what my 'user name and password' are supposed to be and then I gave up, quit the demo. I guess I need the demo w/t to help me get familiar with the game. But if the whole full game runs like this on my computer I am not sure I want to attempt it. I am not sure what my acceleration settings are but all my other games are running correctly so maybe my computer is just to slow to handle this one. Anyone else have anything to say about their experience with the demo and how it ran on their machine? Thanks
Love, Betty Lou

Hi Betty Lou. I guess this will be a game that we will have to look closely at the specifications of the game versus the one of our computer.

For some, the demo runs OK. For others, it goes like you said, one frame at a time. Why?????

Some work ahead for our techs. Maybe.

But who can tell how the game will run. Probably better than the demo.

In the past, we have seen bad demos, but very good games.


Good luck with the game if you buy it.

Chief

One thing I did notice is that the Adventure Company's listed specs are lower than Microapplication's specs. I suspect that the Adventure Company's specs are only the bare minimum requirements and not the suggested requirements?

I just re-read the specs and unfortunately my laptop graphics card doesn't support pixel shader without some tweaking (with 3d Analyze). I'll have to "experiment" a little with the demo to see if I can get it to work.

I think the present video card that I have will prevent me from playing this game.I have an old FX5200 but I plan to upgrade to a Geforce 7900GS that is much faster and will probably allow me to play it w/o any problems. I also attempted the download and 2.5 hours later it timed out and I gave up.

Tried one more time and this time I completed the download but like Betty Lou said the movement is slow and ackward but I still believe,as mentioned above, that my video card is too slow to properly run this game.I fully intend to buy this one but it will be on the back burner after I upgrade my video card. It seems like a very interesting game, love the concept.

It does sound intruiging. Am downloading the demo right now.
But man... I just baught some games, and I know I'm gonna buy Gray Matter when it comes out so....

I gotta work more

So, it's official then? Great news, I love the demo. And the game comes out one day before my birthday.

P.S.: Oh, and hi everybody!

Hi Necros and welcome to GameBoomers!

Wow, I thought the demo was really really good actually! Well, not the demo per se perhaps but the game, the design... it looks mighty cool and original!
It works very smoothly on my computer, but I have a pretty new system so I'm not surprised.
It has gorgeous graphics and a really sophisticated control. I like it.

Love the avatar Necros - I met Jolene briefly once, she is very shy.
I am waiting for the review of this as am useless at games where you have to work machinery. Otherwise it sounds great.

Oh, you're very lucky, I wish I could meet her. I loved her in Enterprise and not only because she looked so hot but also because she did a great job as a Vulcan, T'Pol is almost as great a character as Spock and it's mostly because of her. She deserved the Saturn award.

Oh, and one more thing, this date is true for Europe too? I mean, the Uk and Eastern Europe too? I hope it is, I'd really like to play with this game.

Necros -- the date is for the North American release only, as far as I know.

Ive got this one on my buy list, can't wait for the release to come out. Thanks, Becky for the update. Marie

Thanks Becky, sounds interesting & not too long to go!

Hello down loaded the demo .Differant but do you have to search for people .Only found dead ones .Pass word not a clue .Intriging in the least

im playing the demo on xp no probs

dragonuk44,

What type of video card are you using? I have an ole school FX5200 which causes the frames to lag too slow to make the game enjoyable. I plan an upgrade shortly which should solve the problem.

Hello not a clue .I know it isnt to old and it cost a lot .I can ask my son when he gets back from Ghermany on Mon .I know there is a way of finding out if some one can tell me I willing to try .Sorry I cant help more

This looks really interesting! Thanks for the info Becky.

Is sounds great!

Hello Lexxymy vidio card is 7800 gtx hope that helps.Think this game as hooked me

Can you let me know if upgrading helps. I have the same video card and the demo runs quite sluggishly for me also. The rest of my pc exceeds the requirements for the game.

If you can tell me how to send you my specs I guess we could compare or do you think the glitch forum would be more help ful.I would imagine the vidio card would make a differance my self .Can t realy say that I am up on these maters .It ran fine for me and as you say the rest of your computor is up to it so it seems so but dos nt this make it an expensive game .As I recall we had this with broken Sword and what if you go in options could nt you turn any thing of so it went better .

It would be best to move the video card discussion to the Glitches forum. Thanks and good luck!

Ana

I had the same problem as Betty Lou and could not even get my cursor to where I needed to type in password, so I finally gave up. I thought it was my computer, all the other games run fine . So not sure what the problem is would like to play it tho. Trisha

I can't even access the demo download site. When I click on "Download" I get a flash of a new screen and a download in the URL but then the whole thing disappears and I'm back to the first screen again. Have never seen this happen before.

Trisha and billy bob Try the glitchs forum .I am sure they will help

Well, today is Feb 5th - anyone found this in the brick/mortar store/s yet? Which ones?
Love, Betty Lou

BL, Per Beckys post, it begins shipping today, it won't be showing up on shelves for another week or so probably.



Ana

Ive been waiting for an email all day but not yet

I tried to get the demo to download - no dice - I have an ATI Radeon X1650 pro 512 ddr memory but it just wont play. So I will not buy. A shame Iwas looking forward to getting a new game. Presently playing Darkness within, loving it.

Hello Teresa have you tried in glitchs they may be able to help you

Teresa, does your video card support Vertex and Pixel Shader 1.1? If not, the demo/game won't run. This is the problem I ran into as well. There is a work around (using 3D Analyzer to emulate pixel shading) but it's not ideal.

Hi everyone,
I started the demo and didn't do much yet. But I'm confused with the multiple screens. It looks like the main action's going on the small screen, the other screen's showing the progress on the map. Is the whole game works this way?

According to the Interact website, this game is not being released now until Feb. 17th?

Red -- the game has shipped, but it always takes awhile for the games to arrive at the distribution centers and then to be sent to individual stores. It may be that the 17th takes into consideration receiving the game and then shipping it out to customers, with it arriving on or around Feb. 17th.

Oh ok! Cool.....I can't wait to get this game

I have just seen experiment 112 and would very much like to play it. I tried to download the demo before but it didnt work, so I assumed my system was not good enough. Today I managed TO SEE but not download the demo. Windows block it for security reasons. Question - the specs on the box I looked at only stated vista for playing I have xp and can now play the demo. Confusing to say the least. Any boomer playing on XP? I dont want to buy something I cant play so I would like other opinions. For info I have P4- Windows xp, 3191mb available, direct x 9c,Radeon x1650 video card 1 gbs memory with all the bells and whistles. PS It was available in Walmart.

teresa,

Yes - it plays on XP.

I'm playing it on XP also.

Thankyou, Im on my way to buy.