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| From: Atari
Category: Video Games
List Price: £29.99
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Rating:  11 reviews
Platform: Sony Psp
Genre: role-playing-games
Media: Video Game
Age: 11 - 18 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7 x 3.9 x 0.6
EAN: 5050053016409
Release Date: September 14, 2007
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| Customer Reviews: Read 6 more reviews...
 A great game, despite some problems... uninitiated beware March 31, 2008
Dmitri M. A. Hubbard (Hong Kong)
I enjoyed this game very much, but it is not for everyone. It is most notably not for someone who has not either some familiarity with the AD&D game generally, or some other type of table-top system of battle. The designers have been forced to choose between making a game for existing players or making a game to get new converts. They have chosen the former.
The main frustrations 1) View of characters 2) Menu navigation 3) Lack of access to a rule book which will enable you to make the best item selection for your character 4) Moving during non combat mode is tiresome.
If you come from the Everquest / World of Warcraft background, you might find this is not enough blood-pumping action for you. It is more similar to tabletop wargames, or chess (at a much more basic level), and you must go into playing it with the same mentality. I think it is a bold attempt and will just get better with later refinements.
 Faithful, Slow And Buggy December 27, 2007
W. J. King (Glasgow, Scotland)
As a long time D&D player I was really looking forward to this game. It is faithful to the rules but seems to miss the point that what works mechanically on the tabletop can be better handled invisibly by a computer/console. When playing the game you have to move every square even when not in combat and micromanage every decision even when it would be more exciting not to. The game is also prone to the occasional crash so I recommend saving often.
Good Points: a real effort has been made to be true to the combat system of the original game. Graphics are nice.
Bad Points: play is slow and repetitive.
STOP ... Read this and skip the hype. December 16, 2007
A. Cresswell (london, UK)
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
OK so you're a fan of D&D and so am I ... but this ??? This is just bloody aweful. The camera angles are very jerky in any enclosed areas. (check the promo video out at the top ... it's jerky views even in clear terrain.) The selling and buying screens, level up etc. etc. are far from intuitive. Somewhere along the way they frogot what they were trying to do with this game...they didn't concentrate on gameplay, not turns, not character handling or rules.. :( The graphics are very slick.... for about an hour then you're bored as the spell casting etc is just repetative over and over. However all of this is not the crowning pile of pooh. That's the multiplayer. My son and his friends were all looking forward to multiplayer and were so hopeful but ... god it's appaling. All players see the screen but in stead of each person able to do their turn simulataneously, each player must wait there turn. This makes what was alreadya long fight system in the solo game unbareable in multiplayer. After 30 minutes they all binned the game and I don't blame them. There's so many problems...when you host a game only the Host PSP can allocate characters so you don't get to bring in your team ... plus when it starts all players belong to the host PSP so he then has to spend the first 10 minutes allocating the player chars to each person playing. There's no trading of items unless in a town and the same for training, buying, selling etc. If you should be stupid enough to kill all monsters in a level before opening a chest .... then the adventure ends with the death of the last monster and all those chests you were looking to emptying simply vanish...so you have to stand there being hit, shot at etc. and open chests otherwise you lose it all. How did this ever make it through play testing ? The reason this has been getting 4 and 5 stars is from fans who desperately don't want it to be bad or hoping it will all come good. After playing this solo for an hour I'm done. This simply suxes in terms of gameplay and implementation.
Extremely disappointing December 15, 2007
John Wilson (Hampshire, UK)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The Dungeons and Dragons game consists of a lot of character details, which leaves one wondering why character and team management within Tactics is so terrible. Gameplay can only be described as tiresomely dull; characters quickly become over-encumbered, and because the team management facility is so bad, it is almost impossible to get an understanding of who is carrying what, and what they're qualified to use.
In short, this could have been so much better, and certainly the idea is great. But as a playable portable game, this is just dreadful; easily the most frustrating and dull RPG game I have played in a long time.
 Best PSP strategy game to date October 15, 2007
P. E. Haynes (Sidcup, Kent United Kingdom)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I agree with the general comments already made. It is an excellent reproduction of D&D; slightly fiddly with item swapping; and very, very addictive. I'm only about 25% of the way in to the game, and am impressed that the levels are becoming harder at a good pace.
At this early stage, I could definitely see myself restarting the campaign in, say, 6 months time, which isn't always the case with RPGs. Thats due mainly to the huge depth in character creation and party development.
As an owner of both the PSP and DS, I have always been a little disappointed that - so far - there haven't been a huge number of quality strategy games on the PSP. This game has changed that completely.
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