Nancy Drew: Trail of the Twister

Apprehend a Saboteur Stirring up Turbulent Trouble! $100,000,000 is at stake in this competition to discover a formula to predict tornado touchdowns. But when equipment starts failing and crew members are injured, you as Nancy Drew, must join the team to keep them in the competition. Is it just bad luck that's plaguing the storm chasers or is someone sabotaging their chances of winning?

table border="0" tr td height="755" a name="product_description" iNancy Drew: Trail of the Twister/i is a single player point-and-click adventure for play on either the PC or Mac computer platforms. Based on the Nancy Drew novel, iThe Mystery of Tornado Alley/i, the game tasks the player to solve the mystery behind a string of accidents surrounding a $100 million competition involving tornado storm tracking. The game features classic Nancy Drew investigative gameplay, multiple non-player characters and a wealth in-game items to interact with, meteorological tools and theory, puzzle-solving gameplay and varying difficulty levels. style type="text/css" .caption { font-family: Verdana, Helvetica neue, Arial, serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; } ul.indent { list-style: inside disc; text-indent: -15px; } table.callout { font-family: verdana; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1. 3em; } td.vgoverview { height: 125px; background: #9DC4D8 url(http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/electronics/detail-page/callout-bg.png) repeat-x; border-left: 1px solid #999999; border-right: 1px solid #999999; padding-left: 20px; padding-right: 20px; padding-bottom: 10px; width: 250px; font-family: verdana; font-size: 12px; } /style p/ table align=left width=185 tr td valign="top" height="45"img alt="Nancy Drew: Trail of the Twister game logo" title="Nancy Drew: Trail of the Twister game logo" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/videogames/detail-page/B003QFUREU.logo.175.jpg" border=0 align=top width="175" height="78"/td /tr /table table align=right width=250 cellpadding=10 tr td valign="top" height="192" div align="center"img alt="Interacting with a non-player character in Nancy Drew: Trail of the Twister" title="Interacting with a non-player character in Nancy Drew: Trail of the Twister" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/videogames/detail-page/B003QFUREU.01.sm.jpg" border=0 align=top width="250" height="159"br /div center span class="caption"Classic Nancy Drew sleuthing.br/ View larger./span /center /td /tr tr td valign="top" height="13" div align="center"img alt="Puzzle play example from Nancy Drew: Trail of the Twister" title="Puzzle play example from Nancy Drew: Trail of the Twister" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/videogames/detail-page/B003QFUREU.02.sm.jpg" border=0 align=top width="250" height="141"br /div center span class="caption"Integral puzzle-solving play.br/ View larger./span /center /td /tr tr td valign="top" height="167" div align="center"img alt="In-game computer from Nancy Drew: Trail of the Twister" title="In-game computer from Nancy Drew: Trail of the Twister" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/videogames/detail-page/B003QFUREU.03.sm.jpg" border=0 align=top width="250" height="141"br /div center span class="caption"Loads of item interaction.br/ View larger./span /center /td /tr tr td valign="top" height="13" div align="center"img alt="Rendering of a tornado touching down in a farmer's field from Nancy Drew: Trail of the Twister" title="Rendering of a tornado touching down in a farmer's field from Nancy Drew: Trail of the Twister" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/videogames/detail-page/B003QFUREU.04.sm.jpg" border=0 align=top width="250" height="141"br /div center span class="caption"Immersion into storm tracking science.br/ View larger./span /center /td /tr /table bApprehend a Saboteur Stirring up Turbulent Trouble/bbr/ $100,000,000 is at stake in this competition to discover a formula to predict tornado touchdowns. But when equipment starts failing and crew members are injured, playing as Nancy Drew you must join the team to keep them in the competition. Is it just bad luck that's plaguing the storm chasers or is someone sabotaging their chances of winning in iNancy Drew: Trail of the Twister/i? p/ bGameplay/bbr/ Like other games in the popular Nancy Drew series, iNancy Drew: Trail of the Twister/i is a single player mystery adventure game with additional puzzle-solving elements and the ability to read case files, save clues and items found, etc. Players assume the roll of teenage sleuth Nancy Drew, going under cover as a tornado researcher/storm chaser, utilizing the familiar point-and-click game mechanic to explore game areas and interact with non-player characters and in-game items. In order to solve this mystery you will also need to immerse yourself in the science of storm tracking. With the help of the Canute storm chasing team that is just what you will do. To help gather the data, and keep the team safe, the chase team brings along trucks full of equipment, including the actual trucks themselves. A sampling of the hardware players can expect to come across are: weather balloons, doppler radar, wind speed measuring devices, computers, cameras and more. Pay attention to all of this because eventually you will be tested on it in a number of ways, not the least of which being sleuthing in game areas rife with tornado activity. p/ The game also contains an economy that revolves around mini-game play. Players collect pennies through a variety of mini-games that will allow for the purchase of additional items in-game. These in turn allow for further progress in other aspects of the game. Additional gameplay features include adjustable difficulty settings. p/ bKey Game Features/b ul liPlay as Nancy Drew and go undercover as a storm chaser/li liImmerse yourself in meteorology by studying clouds, reading Doppler data, and surviving tornadoes/li liCollect pennies by playing arcade games to purchase candy from the store/li liChoose from Junior or Senior Detective difficulty levels/li liPlayable on both PC and Mac platforms/li /ul h4Minimum System Requirements/h4 table border=1 cellpadding="3" tr td width="12%"/td td align=center width="43%" bPC:/b/td td align=center width="45%"bMac:/b/td tr valign="top" td width="12%"OS:/td td align=center width="43%"Windows XP/Vista/7/td td align=center width="45%"OS X 10.5.8 Leopard/10.6.3 Snow Leopard/td /tr tr td width="12%"Processor:/td td align=center width="43%"1 GHz or greater Pentium or equivalent class CPU/td td align=center width="45%"Intel processor/td /tr tr td width="12%"RAM:/td td align=center width="43%"256 MB/td td align=center width="45%"512 MB/td /tr tr td width="12%"Hard drive:/td td colspan=2 align=center1.1 GB or more/td /tr tr td width="12%"Drive:/td td colspan=2 align=center24 x CD-ROM/td /tr tr valign="top" td width="12%"Video card:/td td align=center width="43%"32 MB DirectX 9.0 compatible video card/td td align=center width="45%"Intel GMA 950, ATI X1600, NVIDIA 7300 graphics card or better/td /tr tr valign="top" td width="12%"Sound card:/td td align=center width="43%"16 bit DirectX compatible sound card/td td align=center width="45%" /td /tr tr td width="12%"Other:/td td colspan=2 align=centerMouse and speakers/td /tr /table /td /tr /table