DOS

Eye of the Beholder

Description

Something evil is lurking below the city of Waterdeep. The Lords of Waterdeep summon a group of heroes to investigate. But someone or something has been watching the proceedings. After the heroes enter the sewers, the ceiling collapses behind them. The only way out is the way down, into a dungeon filled with monsters, traps and puzzles.

Eye of the Beholder is a dungeon crawler RPG with a first-person perspective based on the 2nd Edition AD&D rules. Your starting party consists of four characters and up to two NPCs can join later. Combat and magic happen in real time. Fight over a dozen different monster varieties and cast over 40 spells. A point-and-click interface makes exploring, fighting, spellcasting and handling objects easy.

Alternate Titles

• "EOB" -- Abbreviated Title

Part of the Following Groups

• D&D / AD&D licensees
• Eye of the Beholder series
• Forgotten Realms world
• Games named after songs

Merchant Title Platform Price   Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Eye of the Beholder I and II PC Game Diskettes complete. 1990 1991 DOS $2.55   Eye of the Beholder     Please select your country: United States Argentina Australia Austria Belgium Brazil Brunei Bulgaria Canada Chile China Colombia Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland France Germany Greece Hong Kong Hungary Iceland India Indonesia Ireland Israel Italy Japan Latvia Lithuania Luxembourg Macau Macedonia Malaysia Malta Mexico The Netherlands New Zealand Norway Philippines Poland Portugal Romania Russia Saudi Arabia Serbia Singapore Slovakia Slovenia South Africa South Korea Spain Sweden Switzerland Taiwan Thailand Turkey Ukraine United Kingdom Uruguay Other Worldwide Not an American user?

User Reviews

One of the first good dungeon crawling RPGs of the early DOS times	Optimus (71)
Awesome for the time, still a great game today.	Gothicgene (83)
A decent AD&D dungeon crawl	pogalogen (14)
A champion RPG for it's time.	Andrew Morgan (2)	unrated
Dungeon Hacking at it's best...	Chris Martin (1116)
A great game, but I liked its sequel much better.	Tomer Gabel (4476)
Any game with Larry Elmore's art on its cover is a good game.	OlSkool_Gamer (101)
Wow!!!	lomikin (4)

The Press Says

Computer and Video Games (CVG)	May, 1991	96 out of 100	96
Abandonia	Mar 03, 2004	4 out of 5	80
Power Play	May, 1991	79 out of 100	79
ACE (Advanced Computer Entertainment)	May, 1991	780 out of 1000	78
Quandary	Jan, 1996		70
JeuxVideoPC.com	Apr 21, 2006	10 out of 20	50

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Trivia

Eye of the Beholder is one of many games that shares it's name with a song by the heavy metal band "Metallica" (which appears to be quite popular with programmers). Others include "Seek & Destroy", "Fade To Black", "Disposable Heroes" and "Sanitarium".