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Arctic Quest for Mac


Catch it, Turn It, Put It in Place and Watch Spring Come to the Long Frozen World

Exclusive Games LLC and Stargaze Interactive have released Arctic Quest for Mac, an amazingly beautiful game, which will fascinate you with thought-provoking puzzles, wonderful graphics and great gameplay. The game's Windows version has already gained popularity among puzzle lovers all over the world. Arctic Quest offers you a lot of fun and a good chance to test your agility, strategic abilities, reflexes acuity and quick thinking.

With a wave of his icy fingers, the Snow King unleashed a bitter frost on the tropical islands across Earth. Palm trees iced over, fish were frozen solid in the seas and birds could no longer take flight. There, on the edge of his arctic kingdom the Snow King raised his icy palace, and to safeguard his empire, built a chain of 60 puzzles meant to stop even the wisest sage from reaching his castle and breaking the spell. You are the one to solve the puzzles, which take the shapes of animals or other tropical wonders. Arctic Quest offers unique hand-drawn graphics and you simply can't help enjoying those small animated fish swimming around.

The way time and weather change in the game is almost mesmerizing and the ocean landscape of Arctic Quest is a great one to escape to from everyday duties. Arctic Quest is a great game both for beginners and experienced players, as the level of difficulty is rising slowly and it is really easy to learn. At the same time, the difficulty rises significantly by level 11, which makes the snail (time slower) power-up the ultimate one. After level ten, one misplaced tile can bring you to gameover, so you have to think before you place your tiles and do that fast. Arctic Quest offers a very good balance between efforts you put in and gratuity you get after each level.

Arctic Quest is the best way to relax after a busy day but it also makes you think when you play, which makes it great to play with your kids to teach them how to solve puzzles. We can only be glad for Mac users that now have a great chance to plunge into the world of this thoroughly enjoyable game you just cannot stop playing.

Arctic Quest for Mac Features at a Glance:
* - 60 enjoyable levels
* - Six valuable bonuses
* - Simple mouse-based controls
* - Beautiful hand-drawn graphics
* - A final duel with the Snow King!

Arctic Quest
* runs under Mac OS X 10.3.9 - 10.4 (for both Power PC and Intel-based Macs) and
* costs $19.95 (USD).
* Registered customers are entitled to unlimited gameplay, free upgrades and technical support.
* A trial version of Arctic Quest, limited to 60 minutes of gameplay, is available as a free download at arctic-quest-mac.dmg (14 Mb).

Arctic Quest web site

Founded in 2003, Exclusive Games LLC is an interactive entertainment software company, focused on development of 3D games for Windows-based platforms worldwide. Exclusive Games LLC also specializes in porting games of the casual type to Mac OS X platform. The company is located in Novosibirsk, the so-called "Silicon Taiga", and has a professional team that put all their experience, taste and fantasy in their games. For more information about the company and products, visit http://www.exclusivegames.com

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