Editorial Product Review:

Item Description:
Kick your brain into high gear with incredible mind bending puzzles. Tinker with wrecking balls, lightening rods, lasers, pulleys, springs, gears and more to create the chain reaction you need. Unlock a new 3D world of addictive fun that the entire family will enjoy. Go on tour with the crazy professor and put your skills to the test with challenges from around the globe. Travel from the bazaars of Egypt to the white sands of the Caribbean, then blast off into space for an out of this world gaming experience. Check out the crazy machines community online. Post machines you've created and download those made by others. Compete for trophies and high ratings. Create the Ultimate Machine. Get ready for superb puzzle action as you build wacky contraptions to solve tricky brainteasers.

All new Rube Goldberg-style puzzles Over 200 elements to create and destroy World tour, online, and free-style modes All new parts--amazing lightning machines and laser beams Hall of fame - win a trophy for your contraption Fun for the whole family AGEIA PhysX hardware support Windows Vista / XP

Amazon.com:
Crazy Machines 2 is packed with all new features to help you create your wackiest 'rube goldberg-style' contraptions ever! All new elements, plus an amazing 3d physics engine lets you craft even more complex gadgets and effects.



A New Dimension of Fun
Kick your brain into high gear with incredible mind bending puzzles. Tinker with wrecking balls, lightening rods, lasers, pulleys, springs, gears and more to create the chain reaction you need! Unlock a new 3D world of addictive fun that the entire family will enjoy!

• Hundreds of all new levels to complete
  
  
• New parts, new pieces, and new contraptions
  
  
• Multiple solutions, play these challenging puzzles again and again
  
  
• Swap ideas with other members of the online community
  
  
• Trick out your own contraptions in free-style mode
  
  

Create your wackiest contraptions ever!

Tinker with wrecking balls, lightening rods, lasers, pulleys, springs, gears and more to create the chain reaction you need.

Kick your brain into high gear with incredible mind bending puzzles.

Compete for tropies and high ratings.

Go on tour with the crazy professor and put your skills to the test with challenges from around the globe.

Travel, from the bazaars of Egypt to the white sands of the Caribbean, then blast off into space for an out of this world gaming experience.

Check out the crazy machines community online! Post machines you've created and download those made by others. Compete for trophies and high ratings.

• All new 'rube goldberg-style' puzzles
  
  
• Over 200 elements to create and destroy
  
  
• World tour, online, and free-style modes
  
  
• All new parts--amazing lightning machines and laser beams
  
  
• Hall of fame win a trophy for your contraption
  
  
• Fun for the whole family
  
  
• Join the online community
  
  
• Incredible 3d graphics with brand new effects
  
  
• AGEIA PhysX hardware support
  
  

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Customer Rating: - Fun for an 8-year-old (and his dad)
So far, so good. The game promises 150 different experiments/tasks, and the first 15 were lots of fun. My son and I would talk back and forth, sharing ideas about which tools should be put in which locations. More problem solving than most games we play. It's the best family-friendly PC game I've bought in a long time.

And, for the record, I don't think the issue is necessarily that you have a NEW computer...just one that meets the specifications. I have a 3-year-old Dell with its original nVidia GeForce 6800 graphics card supporting DirectX 9.0c. I'm not saying CM2 will work on ANY 3-year-old computer, but it clearly runs on at least one....

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Customer Rating: - wonderful thinking game
This is a terrific thinking man's game. Great graphics, and ingenious puzzle designs. All of the components react to a real physics environment so you can test and experiment along your way to solving a given puzzle. Also, you can download free content online. If you like to think and experiment, or know someone who does, BUY THIS GAME!

hint. The game needs to have a small sound driver (OpenAL) loaded before it will run. In most cases, the game will probably install this automatically, but in my case, I had to download it from the Internet and install the driver manually. Also, make sure you have a decent 3D video card as the game enviro is fully 3D and requires some extra horsepower.

FIVE STARS

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Customer Rating: - Awesome physics game
The best PC game we have. My daughter (7 years old) even loves to build contraptions and watch how physics take place and interact with different objects and materials.

We have the first version too, but this one adds much more elements into play.

If you ever stacked up dominos and tipped them over when you were a kid, or rolled steel marbles down tracks, you will love this game.

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Customer Rating: - Excellent - BUT! ,,,,,,
I have previously purchased *Crazy Machines* and *Crazy Machines 1.5* and thoroughly enjoyed both of them (I still re'engineer some of the puzzles, seeking different solutions). I have a 1 year old computer with all the *Bells and Whistles*(including TONS of memory) but sadly it is lacking the one item that seems to be a necessity for this new evolution of Crazy Machines, that being what I would call a *Gamers Graphic Card*. The Plain Vanilla video card that came with my new computer, that worked just fine with CM & CM1.5 just doesn't have what is needed to display this new version as it was designed to be displayed and without the proper hardware (See the *System Requirements* in the product description) the program just doesn't display/operate correctly. If you have the video card needed, or are prepared to purchase it($75 was the lowest price I was able to find), I would highly recommend this product! I'm sure I would have given it 5 stars if I had been able to see it in all its glory.