Eingana (Fnac Golden Arrow 2002)
Edutainment software, PC

Web reviews 2001-2003

Amazon

Eingana: The First Live Atlas in 3D 

Amazon.co.uk Review
If you want to step into the shoes of a great explorer and travel across the globe then enter the virtual world of Eingana. This ambitious and unusual title is a cross between an electronic atlas and a computer video game. It takes a while to install which is hardly surprising given the amount of 3-D content and satellite images it offers. You can then travel quickly through a virtual representation of planet earth, sweeping over high mountain ranges, visiting countries and cities, and seeing and hearing animated creatures. You can visit forests, tops of mountains or journey underwater. The best place to start is the demo, which automatically takes you on a quick tour taking in herds of elephants and giraffes as you sweep over breathtaking computer-generated landscapes.
This title will be hugely entertaining for enthusiastic video gamers. Not only does it include virtual creatures alive today, but it also features mythical ones such as the Yeti, who you can find on the Himalayan glaciers. At the bottom of the screen various pieces of information are displayed, such as the height above ground and sea level according to where you are based on this virtual representation of the earth's surface.
It is hard not to be impressed by the amount of work that has gone into generating these virtual models of the world. The long-term aim is for you to be able to build houses, create virtual representations of yourself and virtually inhabit these lands that have been created.
Justin Hunt

Ebay

2 CD SET The first live atlas with 3D and satellite images Eingana. Virtual 3D World Atlas is a full scale three dimensional replica of our planet. With an intriguing combination of both Atlas and Video Adventure, step into the shoes of a great explorer and travel the world. Extraordinarily rich Eingana¿ Virtual 3D World Atlas uses eight databases: topography, imagery, meteorology, place names, fauna and flora, hydrographic networks and sea floors. Discover the true realism of satellite images throughout the planet. You¿ll need more than a lifetime to discover it all! Explore our living Earth Discover more than 100 species of animals (reptiles, mammals, endangered species, marsupials, tropical birds¿) and some mythical creatures too! In a forest, on top of a mountain or underwater, you will encounter the living beings of our planet. Travel anywhere on the planet without restraint.

Bookmark places of interest.
Take snap shots of your favourite places and animals and include them in your Photo Album. Easy to use search facility.
23 demos featuring fly throughs in realistic 3D video mode.
Useful help screen on how to use the various icons.
Shows the latitude and longitude of your current position in the world.
Change the position of the sun and moon to view the planet at different times of the day

Kelkoo
Eingana voor PC

Eingana is the greatest and richest cyber-world ever imagined, composed of 9 thousand billion polygons, 4.3 billion by 2.1 billion pixels for the textures, tens of billions of 3D objects. Much more information than the Internet contains today, on two simple CD-ROMs. Between an electronic atlas and a video game, Eingana is an ecological form of entertainment, the pleasure of which is to discover the universe that it generates, so remarkably like our own.

Eingana is a replica of the world with satellite imaginary that allows users to look at the planet in a new way. You can go where you want in the world looking for specific items relevant to a particular country or area.

Whether you decide to fly over the Grand Canyon or float in space orbiting around the Earth, the aim is to build up your photo album by taking photographs of specific objects or indigenous animals. This includes finding the sunken Titanic, seeing the view from the top of Mount Everest, finding native animals and even creatures like the loch ness monster and dinosaurs. Eingana contains:

Planet Observer

the Earth has got a twin sister

With Eingana, which combines Atlas and Video Game entertainment, you can step into the shoes of a great explorer and travel the world, fly over the Grand Canyon, discover paradise islands, discover your own region from above or float in space orbiting around the Earth.
Eight databases are being used to create a full scale three dimensional replica of our planet : topograpy, satellite imagery, meteorology, place names, fauna and flora, hydrographic networks and sea floors.
More than 15000 units have been sold in France in 2002 since the launching of the product. Eingana has been awarded the Golden Arrow FNAC 2002. The product is distributed in part of Europe (UK, Germany, Switzerland, Austria).

Temple Games

Eingana: The First Live Atlas in 3D

EINGANA is a full scale three dimensional replica of our planet. You can explore the world looking for specific items relevant to a particular country or area. You can fly over the Grand Canyon, feel what it is like to be on top of Mount Everest, discover paradise islands, or float in space orbiting around the Earth. EINGANA is a full scale three dimensional replica of our planet. You can explore the world looking for specific items relevant to a particular country or area. You can fly over the Grand Canyon, feel what it is like to be on top of Mount Everest, discover paradise islands, or float in space orbiting around the Earth.

Examine our world from viewpoints you’ve never imagined:

The whole earth is defined with an accuracy to within 1km, 200m for Europe & the US, 10km ocean floor, satellite imagery of the biggest cities with an accuracy of 10m

Your aim is to travel the world and fill up your photograph album, find the Titanic and many other specific objects or indigenous animals of the different environments and even some hypothetical creatures such as the Yeti or the Loch Ness Monster.

Serif

The First Live Atlas With 3D And Satellite Images

Eingana™ Virtual 3D World Atlas is a full scale three dimensional replica of our planet. With an intriguing combination of both Atlas and Video Adventure, step into the shoes of a great explorer and travel the world.
Discover more than 100 species of animals (reptiles, mammals, endangered species, marsupials, tropical birds...) and some mythical creatures too! In a forest, on top of a mountain, or underwater, you'll encounter the living beings of our planet.

Travel across the globe with the amazing Eingana™ Virtual 3D World Atlas. You really can travel the globe (interactively) - it's much cheaper than a 'round the world ticket, so order your copy now and take off with your imagination.

Increase your knowledge of the world whilst also improving your geography, with this inspirational resource. This 2 CD-ROM set has a user-friendly interface which will allow you to explore the world using just your PC.

Breathtaking Landscapes

Start with the demo, which automatically takes you on a quick tour taking in herds of elephants and giraffes as you sweep over breathtaking computer-generated landscapes.
After you've explored an area and investigated the terrain, you can start looking for animals. It's great fun and you can spend hours hunting for cheetahs, lions and tigers, trying to work out which country they're likely to live in, and trying to catch them using the on-screen 'animal radar'.
Once you've found an animal, you can save it to your 'album' where you're then prompted to hunt for further animals. Not only does it include virtual creatures alive today, but it also features mythical ones such as the Yeti, who you can find on the Himalayan glaciers.

Focusm

Eingana™ Virtual 3D World Atlas

2 CD SET
The first live atlas with 3D and satellite images
Eingana™ Virtual 3D World Atlas is a full scale three dimensional replica of our planet. With an intriguing combination of both Atlas and Video Adventure, step into the shoes of a great explorer and travel the world.

Calibre Software

How would you like to be an ethereal being, such as an angel, with special powers which allow you to examine our World from viewpoints never imagined before, even by NASA, and to peer into every nook and cranny to discover all the world's creatures, from the humble sparrow in the woods, to the most hypothetical such as the Yeti on its Himalayan glaciers ?

BECOME ONE OF THE FIRST VIRTUAL OWNERS OF EINGANA!