Game Description:
Join the Big City Adventure treasure hunt and search for thousands of cleverly hidden items. Travel to all the most famous (and not so famous) locations around the cosmopolitan city of San Francisco. Discover 60 fascinating and obscure facts about San Francisco and it's history, plus, earn 60 cool mementos from the 20 amazing locations you'll visit. Big City Adventure is a great beginning to a new series of hidden object games.
Game size: 22.9 MB
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Review from: GameZebo

Renowned for its foggy summers, steep hills, eclectic architecture and famous landmarks like the Golden Gate Bridge, Alcatraz Island and cable cars, San Francisco is now the site of thousands of cleverly hidden objects in Big City Adventure: San Francisco. That's right. If you're a fan of the hard-to-find, you're in for a delightful time in the city on the bay.

So, what's exactly in store for hunt-and-search aficionados? A scavenger's trip of a lifetime!

Big City Adventure: San Francisco is the latest addition to the popular genre of hidden-object games. Set in cosmopolitan San Francisco, it offers you the chance to visit 20 of the city's famous, and not-so-illustrious, landmarks. In the process, you'll learn some interesting and obscure historical facts, as well as collect some cool mementos.

In all, thousands of objects are concealed amid the game's 120 rounds of cluttered-up fun. Included are 60 rounds of treasure hunting interspersed with an additional 60 rounds of entertaining mini-games (comprised of match-three style play, jigsaw puzzles and memory challenges) that provide a transition between destinations. Each hot spot is also described via a "postcard" that offers some interesting bits of info about its history.

Play begins by entering your name and selecting one of six family members (Dad, Mom, Sister, Brother, Grandpa or Grandma) to represent you. Then, it's off to the first local, Alcatraz Island (other spots include Market & Powell, Haight-Ashbury and the Golden Gate Bridge). While the game doesn't feature traditional separate play modes, you can switch at any time between a Timed and Relaxed mode of play from the Options Screen. Still, you'll usually have plenty of time to find most objects even when playing "on the clock."

Like all games in the genre, what you'll find when you land at each location is a menagerie of items, both appropriate and inappropriate to the surroundings, presented in a manner befitting the best hoarders in the business. Some objects will be quite apparent, while others will be cleverly disguised. In either case, your task is to find all the items listed before time runs out.

But, as alluded to above, gameplay is not just about digging through screen after screen of accumulated junk. Interesting mini-games are used as transitions between San Francisco's numerous locales. Three tile games are employed, including the old memory game where you flip tiles over to match item pairs. In another, objects are visible but must be matched with exact replicas displayed below. Otherwise, you incur a penalty. You'll also find a match-three derivation. In each case, the goal is to break the tile by making correct matches. The last mini-game, a standard jigsaw puzzle, breaks up the tile madness...
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Review from: BC GAMING

I've always wanted to go to San Francisco on vacation, but it hasn't worked out. So Big City Adventure: San Francisco is as close as I can to visit this city full of rich history and fascinating sites. This hidden object game shares all kinds of facts about the city and 20 of its spots.

The game contains 60 levels, so you visit the same spot a few times and pick up a new fact each time you visit. You discover your new destination by completing a mini-game and then do the hunt for hidden objects at the destination. This one nicely ties the hidden object scene and mini-games with the game's San Francisco theme. Be warned… it starts easy, but it will get harder! Avoid any temptation to feel cocky early on like I did.

Upon finding all the objects in a level, you earn a token that appears on the edge of the map screen. The tokens work their way around the map until you've covered all three sides. This helps track your progress. You earn "Quick Find Bonus" points when you find more than one object quickly or complete more than one move closely in the mini-game.

The ultimate feature in this one that should be a standard in all hidden object games: Letting you know when you click something and it turns out to be nothing. Many of the games don't always "hear" your click and you don't want to click again for fear you'll lose points. Not a problem with Big City Adventure SF. The game shows an icon when you click an object that doesn't appear on the list of things you need to find. I'm currently playing another hidden object game and too many times something I clicked earlier turn out to be one of the objects on the list...
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Review from: Game Mile

If you expect to see another monotonous hidden-object clone, I have to disappoint you.

In this game hidden-objects locations contain animated elements just like in Agatha Christie: Death on the Nile.

What's more important, the graphics itself is amazing.

Each location is created by professional hand with love and great sense of humor.

And when you find yourself on the crowded Market Square, you can hear the sound of the cable car bell and feel like having a hot dog.

In terms of difficulty this game is relatively simple. The time periods for each level are long enough not to make you replay each level for 10 times before you can memorize where all hidden objects are located. I'll tell you a secret: me, I've passed 6 locations in 1 hour being a mediocre detective in MCF...
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Review from: Games 4 girls

This is a seek-and-find game where, in a screen-full of diverse objects, you have to find those items which are listed on the bottom of the screen. There is a time limit - or none if you have checked the "Relaxed Mode – no time limits"

This game uses the various local locations of San Francisco to anchor the game. And Oberon does a good job of displaying the map and then selecting the important sites of the city – Alcatraz, the shopping district at Market and Powell, the Opera house, Mission Delores. Before you can access a new area you have to solve a puzzle – a match 3 game, sorting or an actual puzzle. Once you have solved the entire puzzle, you can go back and play it again – with a new group to find...
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Review from: Pixel Paradox Games

Big City Adventure: San Francisco Game is a find and seek puzzle game set in San Francisco. Big City Adventure: San Francisco has plenty of levels and is good for several days of game play before you reach the end. Presumably this is going to be continued to other cities. Big City Adventure: San Francisco is good Game value for your family PC and educational, too.

The trip of a lifetime awaits you in Big City Adventure: San Francisco!

Join the Big City Adventure: San Francisco treasure hunt and search for thousands of cleverly hidden items all over the magnificent city of San Francisco!

In Big City Adventure: San Francisco you travel to all of the most famous (and not so famous) locations in this big city adventure in the cosmopolitan city of San Francisco...
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