After crash landing onto an extraordinary string of uncharted islands, you find yourself suddenly on the hunt for a ruthless pirate holding the valuable and dangerous secrets of this mysterious island chain, frozen in time and hidden from civilization for centuries.
Hidden Expedition - The Uncharted Islands Collector's Edition is an adventure puzzle game for Windows users. You have been knocked unconscious in a glider crash on an uncharted string of islands. As you regain consciousness you are thrust into leading a hunt for a ruthless Pirate who is trying to escape with the valuable and dangerous secrets the Islands have held for ages. Investigate these unique islands and discover the secrets you are recruited to protect, and who is responsible for them.
After crash landing onto an extraordinary string of uncharted islands, you find yourself suddenly thrust into adventure! You’re soon on the hunt for a ruthless pirate holding the valuable and dangerous secrets of this long lost island chain. Use your Hidden Object skills to discover the buried mysteries that lead you deeper and deeper into the secrets of Hidden Expedition: The Uncharted Islands!
This game from Floodlight & BFG has some wonderful puzzles, many of which are different from the usual pipes, sliders, etc & some of them are extremely difficult but there is a skip button if you get too frustrated. In addition the hidden objects are also a good mix of different ways to solve, for instance you may have to find four items but have to solve a puzzle within the scene to open a box to get another word list.The graphics are crystal clear & the artwork is stupendous, the scenes are so well drawn. There is a voiceover during the cut scenes & you can skip the dialogue but try not to be tempted as some of it is amusing. The scenes filled my widescreen nicely.You will get a journal which tells the story, has clues & gives a task list; in addition the task list can be found on the inventory bar. Sometimes it can be quite hard to figure out what to do though so I did quite a lot of tracking to & from scenes, there is no map. The hint button is not available in scenes where there is no action to perform.There are two modes of play; casual with lots of sparkles, you start with 5 hints & they recharge in 20 seconds or expert, no sparkles for 15 to 20 seconds & then you get a glint which gets brighter if you have not clicked on an item. Here you get 3 hints recharging in 60 seconds.The music wasn?t very memorable & rather repetitive & the background noises were in keeping with the game.
He did not want to linger in Hawaii, for whatever reason, and in the evening he weighed anchor and sailed west and north between the islands, toward the cold. His journal of the visit would survive, but he himself would not see Hawaii (or France) again.
When he sailed from Australia, the English at Botany Bay were the last Europeans to see his vessels. He disappeared. It would be years before an Irish adventurer named Peter Dillon would discover what had happened to him. Both frigates had been wrecked at night in a typhoon on the small, uncharted island of Vanikoro, off the Solomons. Whether he survived that wreck and sailed on in a smaller vessel built from the wreckage, as some islanders said, or died there, is not known.*