Amelia Earhart Drives Hidden Object Game
Very few pilots have obtained the level of fame of Amelia Earhart. She was a fearless female aviatrix with no equal. Then in 1937, she disappeared with her navigator Fred Noonan while attempting to be the first woman to fly around the world. The search was called off on July 19th, 1937 but clues are still surfacing to date on what possibly happened to Amelia.
Unsolved Mystery Club: Amelia Earhart gives us the chance to play out the mystery and search for clues. This new title from Freeze Tag takes us on a voyage through Amelia’s childhood, adolescent and early adult years all the way through to when she disappeared. You will learn much about the time period and the history, which are complimented with accurate facts and historical newsreels of the aviatrix herself.
Each location you visit will provide a list of objects to find. Not all will be located in one exact area, so you will be gathering the materials you need to unlock a safe, place a doorknob to open a door, or unscrew a vent cover to reveal what’s hidden behind.
A new part of the game opens up after completing each location. That new thing is flight training. You will learn to take off by cracking the color combination code on the dials, and fly through hoops picking up fuel along the way. I found this to be a nice little break in between the hidden object hunts.
For the normal object finding screens, the artwork was beautifully done and based on real locations. This made finding hidden things easy, without being too easy and giving it away.
There are multiple theories about what happened to Amelia and where her remains might be today. And there is huge interest in this topic. Here was a woman who was a trailblazer who disappeared without a trace while at the absolute height of her popularity. Had she completed her flight, she would have been the most popular woman ever. The fact that she didn’t make it, and instead became a mystery probably made her even more so.
All this makes it a perfect topic for a computer game, especially a hidden object one. You’ll go on a hunt in three locations where she might have gone down with a meter to help discover hidden clues.
This meter is very handy because it will visibly flash faster and even audibly beep when you are close to something important. This helps since you have no clue what you are looking for in your investigations.
The game consists of five chapters that have three locations each and the four flight school mini games. It doesn’t take too long to go through each location or to complete the mini games, which makes this title a quick play.
Perhaps the coolest part of the game, after playing though the various levels, learning to fly and watching all the historical data about Amelia, is that you’ll be asked what you think happened. So which theory do you think is correct?
I hope you paid attention to each one because you’ll get a final film to end the game and complete Unsolved Mystery Club: Amelia Earhart. It’s a great way to tie up this thoroughly enjoyable and beautiful title.
I found this game thoroughly enjoyable and entertaining as well as educating. And that is a rare combination these days. The replay value is a little sparse, but for the tiny price it’s a good deal and more than worth your time.
The Unsolved Mystery Club: Amelia Earhart flies high and earns 4 GiN Gems. If only we could somehow find the real woman, though I think she would get a kick out of a game based on her so many years later.