Amiga

Eye of the Beholder

If RPG's are the thing to get your pulse racing, Eye of the Beholder will blow your mind. Grab it at the first opportunity, but be prepared to spend a l-o-o-o-o-n-g time playing!

Eye of the Beholder is an essential purchase for followers of the AD&D series, but also for people who missed FTL's games first time round and those of you that finished them and want some more.

There have been many pretenders to the Dungeon Master throne but this is the first game that has taken the genre to a whole new level. The sheer level of detail and atmosphere is breathtaking. This is the game your Amiga was made for. It's stunning!

Eye of the Beholder is an intense, taxing experience. It combines all the accepted methods of modern role-players and adds a far helping of spooky sounds, twisted puzzles and plenty of traps for the unwary.

A blatant Dungeon Master rip-off it may be, but there's no escaping the fact that Eye of the Beholder is still one hell of a game. If you only intend buying one game this month, then this got to be it. In short, Eye of the Beholder is an absolute corker.

Not really as big a leap on from Dungeon Master as I would like, but still sufficiently different to make it an essential purchase. Intelligent and (yes, it's that word again) atmospheric, it's a wonderful piece of software and no mistake.

Eye of the Beholder ist optisch, akustisch und von der Bedienung her ein Traum. Schwachpunkte haben wir nur wenige gefunden. Sicher, es gibt kein Automapping, pro Disk kann nur ein Spielstand abgespeichert werden (d.h. viele, viele Disketten bereithalten!), und der Schwierigkeitsgrad ist im allgemeinen genau richtig – für Einsteiger. Kampferprobte Amigianer können den Sieg also etwas schneller als erwartet davontragen, werden dann aber mit einem Schmankerl belohnt, auf das PC-Recken verzichten mussten: Die wahrhaft grandiose Endsequenz hat nämlich einzig und allein unsere „Freundin“ zu bieten!

Beholder simply takes the idea of Dungeon Master, improves it, and adds the feel of AD&D roleplaying with its character classes and general gameplay.

I wondered where SSI could advance to next when I viewed their last product, and now I know. But even though it is almost identical to Dungeon Master it hasn't quite got the same zest. The graphics are rather gaudy and it would have been better if the walls had been grey. But on the other hand the sound FX are more than adequate. With all this taken into account the game is excellent and although it doesn't knock DM from the number one spot it's certainly worth getting hold of.