Like Dingo says, it did away with a lot of the annoyances of the first game (crazy layouts and URGH! the key collecting!) and delivered a much tighter, more focused dungeon crawling experience.ĮDIT: It could be worth mentioning somewhere that the first Lands of Lore was originally going to be EotB III before SSI/Westwood split. I loved the dodgy voice acting inserted into the cutscenes too.įor me though, nothing beats EotB II. The music was cool (and creepy on certain lower levels!) and the addition of maps you could find helped tremendously. It was more like a spin-off from the series, and while it did have some first person town/dungeon crawling sequences, it did away with the isometric tactical combat.īut anyway, yeah, I agree wholeheartedly that the Sega CD version was the best as far as the first game is concerned.
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" much unlike other SSI AD&D games from the famous Goldbox series, such as Pool of Radiance or Hillsfar." Hillsfar was not actually part of the Gold Box series (I think it was originally released in a white or silver box). The Master System isn’t home to as many iconic franchises as the best NES games, or even the best Sega Genesis games, but it does have Read more on. I see a pseudo-error in the second paragraph. Even back when it was released I remember the disappointment around Eye of the Beholder III.Īnd speaking of Westwood, will we see a Lands of Lore article sometimes in the future? Once again it would be great timing, the first two episodes have been released on GOG and I'd bet the third will be eventually. HotB 1&2 were not the first D&D games developed by Westwood, there was Hillsfar back in 1989, and in the same years as HotB they made a D&D game for the Genesis. The huge success of Command & Conquer ended up swallowing them. It was a time were development teams were smaller and less anonymous. Their games from the first half of the 1990s have also some "signature style": I cannot say precisely why but even if they were so different games, I could say the first two Kyrandias, Dune II and Lands of Lore all came from the same hands even before knowing they were all from Westwood. Disney Games, Battletech, RPGs, adventures (Kyrandia), Dune II. Eye of the Beholder Help Web (maps, walkthrough, cheats, char editors, etc.) Eye of the Beholder I (Fan site by Stanislav Sokolov with maps, walkthrough, monster descriptions, etc.
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Overall, this game on the Sega CD is a fantastic port of a classic PC RPG, and it's a trip through classic gaming that every gamer should experience.Westwood's output was really varied in their heyday. The only real drawback to the Sega CD version is playing with the gamepad thankfully the Sega Mega Mouse isn't hard to find (or very expensive) if you want to play it the way it was meant to be played.
You start with a party of 4 characters which you roll up D&D style and you can pick up more on your travels, and of course there are a plethora of items both magical and mundane to equip your party with. The soundtrack is nice and eerie, the game is well balanced to be challenging without being impossible, and the mechanics are easy to master.
I originally played this title on the PC, and the Sega CD port of the game is letter perfect. all of these were the staples of the dungeon crawl genre back in the late 80's and early 90's, and Eye of the Beholder was one of the finest, at least for me. The Eye of the Beholder series, Menzoberranzan, Pool of Radiance. Before Diablo and Dungeon Siege, before Neverwinter Nights and Baldur's Gate, people got their dungeon crawling D&D fix by playing the games made by one company: SSI.
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