![]() ![]() I will not mention that it runs way too slow on my P4 with 512 ram and ultra graphic card - first time I actually could feel I need upgrade. The combat system is horrible translation of old engine into year 2001, using items or spells is a real pain with that menu system, the quests somewhat plain, and overall game is a disappointment on many levels. I was actually thrilled by thinking that Pool of Radiance coming back to life, I enjoyed previous Pool of Radiance, so I thought it would be something as good plus the multiplayer. In plain English: if you have had the misfortune of paying good money for it, be it even as little as a few cents, you are entitled to return it and demand your money back. It is unplayable and thus, in legalese, "not of merchantable quality". It appears that there are more barrels, each with a deep bottom. I had thought that I had scraped the bottom of the barrel with "Dungeon Siege, Legends of Aranna". Hey, I'm here, right under your snouts! What are you waiting for to deal me that lethal blow? When it is the orcs' turn you wonder what the dumb beasts are day-dreaming about. But once you've figured it out it becomes another exercise in pixel hunting and mouse taming, and waiting for your selected hero to act. The interface is at first incomprehensible. With four heroes engaging a party of three orcs, count on half a minute for every round. Inside dungeons you can usually tell your characters from the background, but in the open where the background is typically meadow and stuff with a more complex texture than flagstones, they blend with it.Ĭombat takes forever. There is no gamma-correction to adjust, so you just have to crank your monitor's brightness right up to its maximum to see anything much. I wonder what it would be like with the minimum system requirements: a Pentium II 400MHz with 64M of RAM.Īnd it's dark in there. Think of it as a mini-arena where to hone your mouse-taming skills. The mouse pointer hopping about, making weapon selection a nightmare of pixel hunting with your mouse never quite where you want it except by sheer luck. Movement like wading through thick molasses. The CD-ROM did not seem to get accessed either. Eventually I did a full install, which took so long that I was more than once tempted to abort it, so persuaded was I that it had frozen up. Once in a blue moon the mouse would wake up and allow me a click. My hard disk kept thrashing, its red light on for minutes on end, getting nowhere, the mouse pointer dead and frozen. I had at first done a medium-size installation (845M). I have an AMD XP2000, 256M of RAM, a 64M Nvidia GeForce graphics card, and, like everyone else nowadays, a 52x CD-ROM. Recommended system requirements are a Pentium III 500MHz, 128M of RAM, an 8x CD-ROM. Having thus dealt with "The Good", let me turn to "The Bad". A place where great and ancient treasures can be found.and death for the unwary. It was so long I didn't get to finish it and now I can't find anyplace to download it since my new comp doesn't have a disk drive.Īnd awesome action-packed adventure among the ruins of an ancient city of the era when the races lived together and great spells were weaved that has sadly been run down and the magic has become unpredictable. That's the secret combination I found that works best. A rogue is a must and I recommend a mage. The survivability goes up surprisingly a lot with that combination. It's better with a paladin that can double as a cleric to help turn the undead and even do a bit of healing. I disagree with one person's recommendation of a warrior in the party. It was one of the best D&D games I have ever played and I have played almost all of them. If this game plays at all like the original 2001 release, I don't see what anyone is complaining about. ![]()
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