D&D: Eye of the Beholder

Heres some advice for you people who plan on re-making old games: Give the game better graphics, different levels than the original, hidden levels and a player friendly interface.

This game does not include any of these things!

P.S. I only gave this game one star because Amazon wouldn't let me put zero stars!

(1) there are minor bugs in the map system such as it went up-side-down (!) a few times (no i was not drunk, it WAS upside down) the cursor goes astray. Not a show stopper though.

(2) the essential game killer here is this: you can rest after EVERY combat, with no food / drink problems (in contrast to the 2nd edition version) so your party will always be maximally prepared (you can always save so you do this after each battle) with all the spells prepared, and you will NOT EVER be disturbed in your sleep - the bad guys simply wait for you to be slaugthered, giving indeed the game the very short life span of 8 hours.

(3) apart from level 1, the maps are very different (you can look it up via a simple internet search, it won't spoil the game) compare the original eotb maps with those of the gba also published; gba maps are too simple.

(4) the story line is weaker than that of the original: the teleportation puzzle of the dwarven/stone etc keys as i remember them is gone, and the rest is simple battle, which gets a little pointless, because all the rooms look all the same. Not a show stopper either.

(5) in battle you are given a random setup of your figures, and the figures can NOT move around each other. Which means every character must have bows in order to reach an enemy but those in front will lose a full round re-equipping. The setup of who goes in line # that is too complex and i always wind up having the figthers in the back. This really IS very frustrating.

(6) i know dnd 3rd as well as adnd, and what the dice do in this game in battle is just way too weird - far too often a miss with a fighter with a dwarven waraxe +1 on a simple skeleton. Far too often a fumble with a 3rd lvl mage with combat casting, trying to cast a magic missile (!);

(7) some spells are completely irrelevant. finding 2+ level in your spellbook is a pain in the a*s.

Nice but not the real thing, it's a nice to have, nothing more. My advice, rent it, because you WILL finish it in one free saturday (promise). to the makers: It's fine to change a game a bit, but it has obviously not been tested. in my opinion this type of marketing is a Shame!