Stephen King's F13: Ctrl, Alt, ...Shiver

The Good
The short story, "Everything's Eventual" was not available at the time of this game's release EXCEPT via this product -- and it's not a bad one, King's first real entry into cyberpublishing (complete with music).

The Bad
The minigames... well... they stink. One involves dropping animals into a piranha tank. They get eaten. Whoopee. One is a variation on "whack-a-mole", as played with cockroaches. The third is actually kind of cute, and is another "whack-a-mole" variation played with corpses in a graveyard, who will rise from their graves and throw body parts at you unless you whack them back into their graves! The screen savers aren't good, and are, in fact, not really screen savers -- if you leave one of these on your work terminal all Christmas, you're looking at a serious case of burn-in.

The Bottom Line
Ultimately, leave it in the discount rack unless you're a King completist (or are willing to pay whatever price they're asking for a game of Whack-A-Corpse...)

The Good
The short story "Everything's eventual" is nice.

The Bad
It isn't a game. It's just a very bad excuse for not releasing the story for free - they felt like they would need more "content" to sell it (maybe it was too short for a book). So they sat down for a day or two and made three crappy, boring "mini games", some screensavers, desktop background pics (all of them look lame) and some "sound effects" no-one will hear twice - and tried to sell this for real money :) Not my problem - people are buying it without consideration just because of Stephen King's name on the cover.

The Bottom Line
If you want to read the story, it's ok. But don't pay more than $1 for it - the entire "content" is useless junk.