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Mitch Gitman of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reviewed Carmen Sandiego's Great Chase Through Time, together with Carmen Sandiego Math Detective and Carmen Sandiego Word Detective, and said Time was the "smartest creative move [out] of the three new products", and that "the production value, with cinematic music and quality animation" makes Time ...
This game teaches multiple subjects for kids ages 9–12. It was also the first title in the Carmen Sandiego series to be released by The Learning Company (formerly SoftKey). The game features Chase Devineaux. In the game, Carmen Sandiego has invented KnowBots to steal knowledge and the player(s) have to try and thwart her plans.
Instead, the game seems to be based on the structure of the newest version of Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego?, which The Learning Company retitled Carmen Sandiego's Great Chase Through Time. The game was released onto Steam in August 2020, the first CD-ROM era Carmen Sandiego game to be readily available on modern hardware. [10]
The goal of the game is to track down Carmen Sandiego's villains around the world, arrest them and later capture Carmen herself. The player begins the game by first going to the country where the crime took place and then obtaining hints from various sources on where the thief went next, leading to a chase around the world to find the thief before time runs out.
[9] [10] [11] The educational game aims to teach players about world geography and culture to its 10–14 year old target market. [12] A different game was released on the iOS platform under the same name. This game marks the franchise's debut onto the smartphone market, [13] and has a target market of people aged 9–11. [14] [15]
The animation in the game closely imitated the look of traditional animated cartoons.The animations that alert the user that the correct destination has been reached featured either Carmine from Carmen Sandiego: Junior Detective Edition or a pair of bumbling janitors named Rick and Nick ICK according to the game manual.
A Windows version, simply titled "Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?", missing the "Deluxe" nomenclature release was also released in 1994. This version features gameplay that is visually similar to that of the "Deluxe" CD-ROM based variant, but further improved the graphics, video, and audio of the previous version.
The goal of the game is to track Carmen's henchmen across the US, arrest them, and ultimately arrest Carmen Sandiego. The player will be given information on the suspect which is used to obtain a warrant on them so as to narrow down the suspect to one of the V.I.L.E. members in the database.