What was the original version? I know it was changed back reallyyyy early on but to be honest I don't remember a whole lot of it or what was different (I was living in California at that time). What was changed in the update, or is there a more recent one that I haven't seen yet?
In the first room, the actor was old man with a white beard and identified himself as "The Keeper". He came crawling out of the hole in the wall, where he lived. He told a very enchanting story about the battle between Zeus and Poseidon which played out via a light show on the ceiling of the first room. The lights would illuminate various parts of the many paintings in the room and they were all elements of the story. Basically, Poseidon was PISSED that he got banished to the ocean and was forever mad at Zeus.
You moved into the second room, and the main focus was the circular door. Lasers would trace various images in the door as the interlocking rings would twist and turn to form new ones. For some reason or another, the "oracle" on top of the door told us we had to go to the bottom of the sea, and she would grant us safe passage through the vortex. All the rings on the door eventually lined up to reveal an image of Poseidon, and the door slid away revealing the vortex.
When you went into the final room, it was in its largest form upon entry -- a huge underwater palace. Poseidon came out and threatened everyone, and then the "Keeper" transforms into Zeus (surprise!) and they battle it out. It wasn't real people in the video, it was all CGI characters. The battle was much more intense. Zeus defeats Poseidon and then all hell breaks loose because the temple starts to fall apart. As a final desperate attempt to save you, Zeus says a magical incantation:
"Ancient titans of Heaven and Earth,
Restore these mortals to the land of their birth.
For mercy's sake I call on thee,
Deliver them from beneath the sea.
Lest not we tend an ocean grave,
I call upon their lives to save!"
You get hit with a blast of steam and a fireball and the lights go out for about 5 seconds and it's utter confusion. When they come back on, everything is dead quiet, and you are in the
exact same room you were in before you went through the vortex.
And that's what pisses me off. The entire building was designed around this one effect: You are in a room, you go through the vortex, and then you magically get transported back to the room you were in by grace of the gods. Nobody expected it. Now the effect is ruined and not as impactful.
They also added a lot of Indiana Jones stuff in the re-do. Old radios, cobwebs, skeletons, treasures. None of that was in the old version. Where all the treasures are now in the second room, there was just pools of water shimmering.