The puzzles are the best part.

The highlight of the game is its puzzles. The word puzzles, anagrams, ciphers, and logic puzzles are the most interesting aspect of the game, even though you’ll know the answer to a few of them already if you’ve read the book. It’s just too bad that so much of what comes between the puzzles is not enjoyable and the game has a nasty habit of not saving checkpoints after you’ve solved a puzzle. You could spend some time putting letters in the right place in a puzzle, only to be killed in a fight two minutes later and sent back to the puzzle again. Seriously, why save a checkpoint before a puzzle is solved and not after?

Outside of the puzzles and the frustration of the fights, The Da Vinci Code is a pretty bland and unremarkable game. The character animations are very clunky and your movements look just plain awkward. Textures and environments are pretty basic and you’ll spend a lot of time pixel hunting for interactive hotspots.

While the puzzles aren’t bad, the rest of the game is. That leaves you with something that’s just not that much fun to play and that is downright frustrating far too often. Leave this one to the most obsessive of Da Vinci Code fans.

In The End, This Game Hath Been Rated: 50%. This code is best left uncracked.

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