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Nancy Drew: Trail of the Twister | 
| From: Her Interactive
Category: Video Games
Buy New: $19.99
as of 9/10/2010 05:41 MDT details
Seller: Amazon.com
Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 442
Format: CD-ROM
Platforms: Windows Vista, Mac OS X Intel, Windows 7, Windows XP, Mac OS X
Genre: adventure_games
ESRB: Everyone
Media: CD-ROM
Edition: Standard
Batteries Included: No
Age: 5 - 20 years
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: NDTRAILTWIST
Model: 23
UPC: 767861600779
EAN: 0767861600779
ASIN: B003QFUREU
Publication Date: June 29, 2010
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| Features:
| • | Playable on both PC and Mac platforms | | • | Play as Nancy Drew and go undercover as a storm chaser | | • | Immerse yourself in meteorology by studying clouds, reading Doppler data, and surviving tornadoes | | • | Collect pennies by playing arcade games to purchase candy from the store | | • | Choose from Junior or Senior Detective difficulty levels |
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Amazon.com Product Description
Nancy Drew: Trail of the Twister is a single player point-and-click adventure for play on either the PC or Mac computer platforms. Based on the Nancy Drew novel, The Mystery of Tornado Alley, the game tasks the player to solve the mystery behind a string of accidents surrounding a $100 million competition involving tornado storm tracking. The game features classic Nancy Drew investigative gameplay, multiple non-player characters and a wealth in-game items to interact with, meteorological tools and theory, puzzle-solving gameplay and varying difficulty levels. Classic Nancy Drew sleuthing.
View larger. | Integral puzzle-solving play.
View larger. | Loads of item interaction.
View larger. | Immersion into storm tracking science.
View larger. | Apprehend a Saboteur Stirring up Turbulent Trouble
$100,000,000 is at stake in this competition to discover a formula to predict tornado touchdowns. But when equipment starts failing and crew members are injured, playing as Nancy Drew you must join the team to keep them in the competition. Is it just bad luck that's plaguing the storm chasers or is someone sabotaging their chances of winning in Nancy Drew: Trail of the Twister? Gameplay
Like other games in the popular Nancy Drew series, Nancy Drew: Trail of the Twister is a single player mystery adventure game with additional puzzle-solving elements and the ability to read case files, save clues and items found, etc. Players assume the roll of teenage sleuth Nancy Drew, going under cover as a tornado researcher/storm chaser, utilizing the familiar point-and-click game mechanic to explore game areas and interact with non-player characters and in-game items. In order to solve this mystery you will also need to immerse yourself in the science of storm tracking. With the help of the Canute storm chasing team that is just what you will do. To help gather the data, and keep the team safe, the chase team brings along trucks full of equipment, including the actual trucks themselves. A sampling of the hardware players can expect to come across are: weather balloons, doppler radar, wind speed measuring devices, computers, cameras and more. Pay attention to all of this because eventually you will be tested on it in a number of ways, not the least of which being sleuthing in game areas rife with tornado activity. The game also contains an economy that revolves around mini-game play. Players collect pennies through a variety of mini-games that will allow for the purchase of additional items in-game. These in turn allow for further progress in other aspects of the game. Additional gameplay features include adjustable difficulty settings. Key Game Features - Play as Nancy Drew and go undercover as a storm chaser
- Immerse yourself in meteorology by studying clouds, reading Doppler data, and surviving tornadoes
- Collect pennies by playing arcade games to purchase candy from the store
- Choose from Junior or Senior Detective difficulty levels
- Playable on both PC and Mac platforms
Minimum System Requirements | PC: | Mac: | | OS: | Windows XP/Vista/7 | OS X 10.5.8 Leopard/10.6.3 Snow Leopard | | Processor: | 1 GHz or greater Pentium or equivalent class CPU | Intel processor | | RAM: | 256 MB | 512 MB | | Hard drive: | 1.1 GB or more | | Drive: | 24 x CD-ROM | | Video card: | 32 MB DirectX 9.0 compatible video card | Intel GMA 950, ATI X1600, NVIDIA 7300 graphics card or better | | Sound card: | 16 bit DirectX compatible sound card | | | Other: | Mouse and speakers | |
Product Description
Apprehend a saboteur stirring up turbulent trouble! $100000000 is at stake in this competition to discover a formula to predict tornado touchdowns. But when equipment starts failing and crew members are injured you as nancy drew must join the team to keep them in the competition. Is it just bad luck thats plaguing the storm chasers or is someone sabotaging their chances of winning in nancy drew: trail of the twister? features: play as nancy drew and go undercover as a storm chaser. immerse yourself in meteorology by studying clouds reading doppler data and surviving tornadoes. collect pennies by playing arcade games to purchase candy from the store. choose from junior or senior detective difficulty levels windows system requirements: operating system: windows xp/vista/7 1 ghz or greater pentium or equivalent class cpu 256 mb of ram 1 gb or more of hard drive space 32 mb directx 9.0 compatible video card 16 bit directx compatible sound card 24x cd-rom drive mouse and speakers mac system requirements: operating system: os x 10.5.8 leopard/10.6.3 snow leopard intel processor 512 mb ram 1.1 gb or more hard drive space intel gma 950 ati x1600 nvidia 7300 graphics card or better internet connection
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 Excellent game - lots of good puzzles August 26, 2010
dalze family
We have ordered and plays most of the Nancy Drew Games. This one was very good. Lots of good puzzles, some took a lot of thought
 Very fun! ...But not scary! August 19, 2010
Tia M. Shaffer (Marceline, MO)
The game was wonderful. It had lots of mini puzzles and lots of things to do. Nothing was too tedious, and driving the car around wasnt as hard as Ive heard people complain about. I finished it in about 14hrs without cheats. The only complaint is that there is NOTHING scary about this one. Ive always found my favorite Nancy Drew games to be the ones that can make me jump. That being said I cant wait for the next one to come out! It looks like it will be good! Overall I think, if you are a Nancy Drew fan, you will love this game!
 Ugh...another stinker from HI! August 15, 2010
Limey
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Wow...between Trail of the Twister and Ransom of the Seven Ships, i'm really beginning to worry about my beloved Nancy Drew series!
This game was nothing but random puzzle after random puzzle! The tornados were there, but barely. It's almost like HerInteractive sat around and created all these tedious random puzzles, then just threw "Tornado Chasing" in as a bad attempt to connect the puzzles. I would like a plot next time please. This was such a lazy excuse for a ND game! I get that Nancy is an intern in the game, but come on HI! Doesn't mean the player wants to file and catch mice the entire game! Don't even get me started on the "driving"...not only do I HATE playing in the third person, they made the driving impossibly hard!! From the reviews i've seen 90% of people hate "driving" any sort of vehicle in the ND games, so why does HI insist on forcing us to do it! Please, HI, i'm begging you, no more cars, boats, golf carts, etc.! Just point and click maps please! It's so obvious that it's just a time waster/filler, to try and make it seem like your games aren't getting shorter and shorter.
I used to love the Nancy Drew games, it was like getting lost in a book, I didn't want to stop playing! I've played games 1-16, then took a few years off and just started playing again. Apparently I picked the wrong two, to get back to playing! I'm wondering if 17, 18, 19 & 21 are going to be just as bad as 20 & 22! The last two I have played, Ransom and Twister, have just been so awful, I could wait to finish them. Especially Ransom, which was sooooooo bad it took printing out a walkthrough, to get me to finish it. Please bring back the great games I used to love.
Nancy Drew Twister August 1, 2010
Lucille E. Hinch (Starke)
Pretty good game, lot of driving around, not so bad once I figured out how the GPS worked. I like to resell the game after my daughter and I play it but there was a glitch and I had to go back to an earlier save and not take the same step again. None of the latest games meet my expectations after Castle Malloy. I hope to see more that play that well.
 Left short July 26, 2010
Amanda Silva (Silver Spring, Maryland United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I love the Nancy Drew series and have followed it since the beginning. This game was entertaining, but didn't have the sense of urgency and danger that was found in many of the earlier games. The mini games were fun, but not overly challenging. The game only took me about 8 hours to play, which is significantly less than it should take for the [...] tag.
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