Hidden Expedition
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General
Hidden Expedition is a series of casual games developed by the internal studios of Big Fish GamesBig Fish Games
Big Fish Games is a provider of Internet media delivery software and game services based in Seattle, Washington. The company was founded in 2002 by Paul Thelen , and currently employs more than 400 people...
(BFG).The Hidden Expedition series marks the second major hidden object game brand from BFG. In such games, the player must locate various objects which are hidden in a cluttered scene. Once each of the objects has been located, the player is allowed to progress to the next stage of the game. This may sound simple, but often there are many, many objects, with some being particularly small and difficult to pick out. Hidden object games definitely challenge the ability of a player to analyze, differentiate, and identify.
Thus far, there have been four games created for the Hidden Expedition series - Hidden Expedition: Titanic
Hidden Expedition: Titanic
Hidden Expedition: Titanic is an adventure-puzzle casual game developed by Big Fish Studios, and distributed by Big Fish Games. It is the first installment in the Hidden Expedition series .- Story :...
, Hidden Expedition: Everest
Hidden Expedition: Everest
Hidden Expedition: Everest is an adventure-puzzle casual game developed by Big Fish Studios, and distributed by Big Fish Games. It is the second installment in the Hidden Expedition series .- Story :...
, Hidden Expedition: Amazon
Hidden Expedition: Amazon
Hidden Expedition: Amazon is an adventure-puzzle casual game developed by Big Fish Studios, and distributed by Big Fish Games. It is the third installment in the Hidden Expedition series.- Story :...
, and Hidden Expedition: Devil's Triangle.
The storyline of Hidden Expedition is reminiscent of the Survivor
Survivor (TV series)
Survivor is a reality television game show format produced in many countries throughout the world. In the show, contestants are isolated in the wilderness and compete for cash and other prizes. The show uses a system of progressive elimination, allowing the contestants to vote off other tribe...
and The Amazing Race
The Amazing Race
The Amazing Race is a reality television game show in which teams of two people, who have some form of a preexisting personal relationship, race around the world in competition with other teams...
television series as you search for missing objects and complete mini challenges in some of the world's most remote and dangerous locations.
History
- Hidden Expedition: Titanic was released on July 19, 2006 and immediately moved into the #1 sales position for BFG. In this game, the player takes on the role of a treasure hunterTreasure hunterTreasure hunters are people who search for treasure.Treasure hunters may also refer to:* Treasure Hunters , a graphic novel* Treasure Hunters , a Hong Kong kung fu film...
working for the Hidden Expedition Adventure League (H.E.A.L.) to investigate the wreckage of the ocean liner Titanic. Although the Titanic was deemed 'unsinkable' by the pressNews mediaThe news media are those elements of the mass media that focus on delivering news to the general public or a target public.These include print media , broadcast news , and more recently the Internet .-Etymology:A medium is a carrier of something...
, it sank to the bottom of the Atlantic OceanAtlantic OceanThe Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's oceanic divisions. With a total area of about , it covers approximately 20% of the Earth's surface and about 26% of its water surface area...
after striking an iceberg on April 14, 1912 during its maiden voyage from Queenstown, IrelandCobhCobh is a seaport town on the south coast of County Cork, Ireland. Cobh is on the south side of Great Island in Cork Harbour. Facing the town are Spike Island and Haulbowline Island...
to New York City, USANew York CityNew York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
.
- Hidden Expedition: Everest was released on June 1, 2007 and also immediately moved into the #1 sales position on BFG. In this game, the player takes on the role of a member of the Hidden Expedition Club competing against three other teams (The Scholars, The Scarlet Hat League, and The Gamers) to reach the top of Mt. Everest first. However, prior to beginning your journey to NepalNepalNepal , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked sovereign state located in South Asia. It is located in the Himalayas and bordered to the north by the People's Republic of China, and to the south, east, and west by the Republic of India...
, you must travel to the Amazon rainforestAmazon RainforestThe Amazon Rainforest , also known in English as Amazonia or the Amazon Jungle, is a moist broadleaf forest that covers most of the Amazon Basin of South America...
, a witches market in BoliviaBoliviaBolivia officially known as Plurinational State of Bolivia , is a landlocked country in central South America. It is the poorest country in South America...
, Peru's Machu PicchuMachu PicchuMachu Picchu is a pre-Columbian 15th-century Inca site located above sea level. It is situated on a mountain ridge above the Urubamba Valley in Peru, which is northwest of Cusco and through which the Urubamba River flows. Most archaeologists believe that Machu Picchu was built as an estate for...
, Mexico's El DoradoEl DoradoEl Dorado is the name of a Muisca tribal chief who covered himself with gold dust and, as an initiation rite, dived into a highland lake.Later it became the name of a legendary "Lost City of Gold" that has fascinated – and so far eluded – explorers since the days of the Spanish Conquistadors...
, the Mayan Wall, and Chichen ItzaChichen ItzaChichen Itza is a large pre-Columbian archaeological site built by the Maya civilization located in the northern center of the Yucatán Peninsula, in the Municipality of Tinúm, Yucatán state, present-day Mexico....
ruinsRuinsRuins are the remains of human-made architecture: structures that were once complete, as time went by, have fallen into a state of partial or complete disrepair, due to lack of maintenance or deliberate acts of destruction...
and compete in various competitions.
- An interesting feature of Hidden Expedition: Everest is the presence of world-famous mountaineer and Mt. Everest climber, Ed ViestursEd ViestursEdmund Viesturs, known as Ed Viesturs is one of the world's premier high-altitude mountaineers. He is one of only 26 people and the only one from the United States to have climbed all eight-thousander peaks...
. Ed provides guidance for players throughout the game and was involved with BFG during game development to assist in creating a quality gaming experience. Moreover, BFG partnered with National Geographic Ventures for the development and the release of Hidden Expedition: Everest. A player exploring the summit of Mt. Everest in the game will be able to "view National Geographic's rich repository of video, photos, stories and other editorial from previous Everest expeditions and from National Geographic's incredible collection of exploration and adventure content."
- Hidden Expedition: Amazon was released on June 20, 2008. You play as a member of the Hidden Expedition Team who just came back from MexicoMexicoThe United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...
to safe-keep an ancient idol when a homing pigeonHoming pigeonThe homing pigeon is a variety of domestic pigeon derived from the Rock Pigeon selectively bred to find its way home over extremely long distances. The wild rock pigeon has an innate homing ability, meaning that it will generally return to its own nest and its own mate...
flew into your office with an S.O.S letter from your best friend, Rachel, who was stranded in the Amazon and Professor Mandible (an extreme biologist working for the team) was reported missing in the Amazon and you MUST find them and find out what the professor was searching for in the first place.
- Hidden Expedition: Devil's Triangle was released on October 24, 2009. You play as a leader of the Hidden Expedition Adventure Team (H.E.A.T.), and your task is to search for a pilot named Phoebe Bebe who went down in the Bermuda TriangleBermuda TriangleThe Bermuda Triangle, also known as the Devil's Triangle, is a region in the western part of the North Atlantic Ocean where a number of aircraft and surface vessels allegedly disappeared under mysterious circumstances....
. During the search, you become shipwrecked on a mysterious island after a team of pirates led by a famous fictional pirate named Undertow hijacked your submarine by stealing its power source (the Bio-Coil, powered by a mysterious species of beetles which you and Professor Mandible have discovered in the Amazon game which can power anything for more than a century, as told by Emily, your submarine partner before its voyage.) where people seem to age much slower than normal people (thanks to a fictional machine designed by Leonardo da VinciLeonardo da VinciLeonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was an Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist and writer whose genius, perhaps more than that of any other figure, epitomized the Renaissance...
called the Da Vinci Node which never age anybody, which actually worked). However, not everything on the island of Elysia is as peaceful as it seems...
- Hidden Expedition: The Uncharted Island is the intended fifth game in the series. It's the sequel to the Devil's Triangle game where you are stranded on a strange island after you escaped a burning tower in a windy city on the island of Elysia by glider and crash-landed due to turbulence from the city and you must investigate three islands in the Bermuda Triangle, find Undertow and stop him before he wreaks havoc on the Devil's Triangle.
External links
- Official Hidden Expedition Website
- Hidden Expedition: Titanic at Big Fish Games
- Hidden Expedition: Everest at Big Fish Games
- Big Fish Games and National Geographic Team up to Take Consumers to Mount Everest and to Paris, France - BusinessWire.com
- National Geographic Distributes Video Games - InformationWeek.com
- Big Fish to Create Two Casual Games For National Geographic Ventures - GameShark.com