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16254 Desparate Housewives: PCBox Manual – Inside
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Interface.............................................................................11 Getting Around.......................................................................... 11 TM Interacting with Objects ............................................................ 11 Interacting with People ............................................................. 12 The Game Time .......................................................................................... 13 Reference Bar ..............
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WELCOME TO WISTERIA LANE Wisteria Lane. Idyllic. Friendly. Safe. Everything the real estate agent said it would be. The kind of neighborhood you’ve always dreamed of calling your own. The kind of neighborhood you thought you lived in before coming here, one you were beginning to think didn’t really exist. Now you’re here. Happily married, you have an MD for a husband and a teenaged son. Although moving away from the beach was hard, you both agreed it was necessary. It was time. Mainta
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INSTALLATION Before installing Desperate Housewives: The Game, exit all open applications (including background applications such as anti-virus software and pop-up blockers). When all other applications have been closed, insert Disc 1 into the CD-ROM drive. If your CD-ROM drive is AutoPlay-compliant, a launch window will automatically appear when the CD-ROM is inserted. Follow the on-screen prompts to complete the installation. During installation, you will be given an opportunity to elect
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ReadMe File QUICK START Your Desperate Housewives: The Game Refer to the instructions below to start your life on Wisteria Lane quickly. (readme.txt), which contains the License Agreement and updated information about the game. Please take a moment to review the readme for information life in the pages that follow. Here’s a about changes, if any, made to the game after this manual went to print. word to the wise: Talk to everybody. You never know who might have something on it in the Desp
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Options MAIN MENU This menu allows you to adjust Video and Audio settings and to switch special Every visit to Wisteria Lane starts effects on or off. For most visitors to Wisteria Lane, the default settings should here at the Main Menu. be appropriate for your computer hardware, but Play Game you’re always welcome to adjust things to suit game or to resume an already your taste. You can existing Wisteria Lane story. access the in-game Options Menu at any Create New Family tim
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Main Game Screen LIFE ON WISTERIA LANE As you can see, Wisteria Lane is as lovely as advertised. selves and some are inspired by our darker impulses. All have consequences. Camera Controls The actions you take – naughty or nice, honest or deceitful – will affect your You can adjust your perspective on Wisteria progress throughout the game. Lane by zooming in and out and by rotating the camera. Character and Family Customization To zoom in or out, move your mouse pointer First impressions ar
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Interacting with People colored icons rising up from the character; they Socializing with your neighbors is a good indicate a change in your way to learn secrets about them and relationship. about other people. It’s also a good way A handshake represents There’s more than one way to deliver while a silhouette of a a message. getting better, while Red means it’s being negatively affected. Conversation Time After you’ve selected a The clock is very useful. Time control
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Reference Bar Photos You’ve become a shutterbug. Click the The reference bar is the interface on the left side of the screen. Bar, and the photo menu will appear. Goals Use the photo focus screen to take the photo of your choice. Exit will bring you reference bar. To help you keep back to the main screen. track of your story on Wisteria Lane and reference your goals, this is a list of things to do to progress the story. Some goals are simple, others complex; some will View the photos
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Composure Composure is a measure of your physical, emotional, and mental stamina. To keep your Composure high, maintain strong relationships with your Your House neighbors and eat well. Your family needs to eat well, too, so satisfy everyone Mrs. Davenport by cooking a delicious meal. Not up to it? Use your cell phone to order in. To The Solises The Scavos keep your Composure high, also pay attention to personal hygiene and set The Mayers aside some time to relax and take a break from the d
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Home Sneaking This reveals the status of your relationship with your Some secrets only make it out family and the overall state of your home. If you are into the gossip circle as rumors. satisfying your Happiness Need, there’s no reason And sometimes they don’t your Husband and Son shouldn’t respond with high escape at all. For these you’ll need to dig deeper. A lot deeper. your home and garden can also be found here. Do so by sneaking into homes This panel is where you go to customiz
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Investigating That computer in your Lane, cheating is expected. And all too common. house is for more than reading the newspaper and getting gardening tips. What happens when you search on one of your neighbor’s names? Sometimes the strangest round of betting is over, the Internet. betting ensues, and so on until the showdown. Hint: When you are Mini-Games with Poker playing the game, you A night out with the girls. No husbands. No children. Just gossip and cards. can also get mor
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Mini-Games and Home Activities Mixing & Stirring You’ve got a beautiful home and family – it’s up to you how you want to look Mixing and stirring involve … mixing and stirring! With the ingredients in a after them. You can handle Cooking and Gardening yourself or by hiring help bowl, mix until the meter is full. When stirring foods cooking on the stove, keep an eye on the temperature meter. Stir to reduce the temperature. If the for your Needs either way. meter slips into the red, you risk
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Services THE NEIGHBORHOOD neighborly dirt digging. A clever housewife can hire some help and buy herself more time to uncover her neighbors’ secrets. Your cell phone is great Mall and a website for AAA Temps through your computer. Gardening You can hire a gardener on an as-needed basis, or you can set up a schedule. The basics will cost $50 per visit. Additional services will cost more. Cleaning As with the gardener, you can bring the maid in as-needed or schedule a regular visit every two
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The Dresser Your Neighbors & Others Every article of clothing you have acquired is stored in your dresser. The Mayers Clicking the dresser opens a menu Susan Mayer wasn’t always a where you can review what you own, single mom to teenaged daughter Julie. She arrived in Wisteria Lane something to wear. You can add to with a husband, too: Karl Mayer. your options by purchasing clothes Adulterous Karl Mayer. The break- from the stores in the Shopping Mall. up was hard, but not as hard as t
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The Scavos Edie Britt In the last seven years Lynette Scavo has vacillated between being an Edie is Wisteria Lane’s leading real estate agent – and its leading femme over-achieving career-woman to an overwhelmed stay-at-home mother fatale. She likes men, and men like her. What’s the problem? Naturally, (bearing twin the other housewives aren’t as appreciative of Edie boys Porter as their husbands are. Her relationship with Susan and Preston, Mayer is somewhat strained, particularly since the
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Daniel and Frank Fox CUSTOMER SUPPORT Twin brothers Daniel and Frank Fox Internet Support couldn’t be more different. Daniel is The Buena Vista Games Customer Support website contains an array of information a successful fashion designer whose to help your system run Buena Vista Games programs with the best possible own sense of style runs to the performance. To access Buena Vista Games support on the World Wide Web, point your browser to www.bvg.com/support. You may also email us from th
