Nancy Drew: The White Wolf of Icicle Creek
© 2007 Her Interactive, Inc.
It might be hot outside, but it's pretty chilly in this 16th Nancy Drew computer mystery. This title keeps up the tradition of quality from Her Interactive, thanks to a rich story line and innovative sets of well leveled puzzles. It's hard to find a better deductive reasoning exercise. Your job is to help Nancy collect clues to figure out why a remote winter resort is being haunted by a lone white wolf. As with previous adventures, there are hundreds of clues to collect and games that have you cooking for guests, racing on a snowmobile and racing to throw snowballs at bullies. Features include a tutorial and two levels of play (Jr. Detective and Sr. Detective). A new navigation bar makes it easier to quickly save games or jump to the current assignment, so you always know what you need to do. This game also has some nice animated effects, and the narration is of top quality. One drawback is the need for two disks in the installation, plus the game installation takes a good amount of drive space. But the program does install OK on Vista, and works well on computers with a minimal graphics card. Too bad they don't make a PS3 or Wii version. Overall, this is a solid reading comprehension activity and exercise in deductive reasoning. It is one of the strongest Nancy Drew titles you can play, if you're up to the challenge. See the review of the Wii version.
$20, Windows, Mac OSX, Wii
Teaches: logic, reading, deductive reasoning
CTR Rating: 92%