Bioscopia - 5672

Amazon.com Kids travel to an alien planet and adventure through an unearthly land to reach Bioscopia, a deserted research station filled with exotic plants and trees and menacing robots. The player's mission is to rescue a young scientist, who's trapped in the station and seriously injured. To complete the mission and escape Bioscopia, kids have to learn about biology and apply that knowledge to solve Bioscopia's clever puzzles. Designed to advance and challenge children's biology acumen, Bioscopia entertains while teaching with out-of-this-world graphics, thrilling sound clips, and a BigBrain learning section that teaches and tests children's wits. All the while, parents can rest easy and kids will delight with a game where science conquers evil. From the Manufacturer Trapped in an abandoned biological research station a young researcher enters a door and finds herself in the world of BIOSCOPIA! She awakens the laboratory's long-dormant robots, who begin pumping poisonous gas throughout the lab. Time is running out. You must find her and save her! But, it won't be easy. First, you will need to create an antibiotic to the deadly gas. You will need to use principles of human biology, cell biology, genetics, botany, and zoology to solve puzzles that unlock the doors leading to the trapped researcher. Deductive ability and skill are required to meet the challenge: Free the girl from her hiding place, while learning many exciting facts from the world of biology. Learn as you play...and biology becomes the adventure! Review Winner of the 2002 Bologna New Media Prize, this "science conquers evil" adventure offers a compelling mystery within an eerie, Myst-like environment. In fact, the game is much more "Myst" than science tutor-- players spend most of their time exploring strange locales, searching for clues and collecting needed items. Here's the premise: a young biologist has discovered the abandoned research station, Bioscopia. In Indiana Jones fashion, she enters and the big door closes behind her. Now she's trapped, and what's worse, she's contracted a deadly virus put forth by renegade robots. Fortunately, she's able to send out one last transmission which you, the player, pick up. Players must search the disabled, abandoned lab, solve biology puzzles and eventually create the antibiotic that will ultimately save the biologist. This is no easy task-- we became stuck many times and ended up needing the help file (located on the first CD-ROM as a PDF) too frequently. It's not that the puzzles themselves are that hard to solve; there is help available in a science "database" of sorts on the lab grounds. Rather, finding necessary objects and knowing how to use them aren't always clear. Science puzzle content deals with botany, mitosis, cell biology, animal behavior and so on. Logic and memory skills are required throughout. This is a captivating but very difficult game, heavy on logic, light on actual science content. Plan on spending a long weekend on this one. (See also Physicus and Chemicus, sister programs that are similarly designed.) Copyright © 2001 Children's Software Revue -- From Children's Software Revue® -- "Subscribe Now!"
ASIN: B00005V3FD
VSKU: GGV.B00005V3FD.VG
Condition: Very Good
Binding: Video Game