ESRB Rating
Genre
Perspective
Non-Sport
94
MobyRank
100 point score based on reviews from various critics.
3.9
MobyScore
5 point score based on user ratings.

Description

Magic Carpet is a first-person perspective game, in which you are a mage who flies on a, well, magic carpet and casts spells. The game has 50 levels, called "worlds"; each of those is set in a sea terrain with several mountainous islands. Your goal on each level is to amass enough mana within your castle to "restore the equilibrium" within the world. Once this happens, you can head to the next level.

To collect mana, you have to find it (it is represented by golden spheres) and cast a specific spell to make it "yours". To collect this mana, you have to use a special spell to raise a castle of your own out of the ground. A balloon will appear over the newly created castle; it will proceed to fly around the level and collect "your" mana. Initially, your castle will be small and won't be able to hold much mana, so you'll have to keep casting the "castle" spell at it to make it bigger.

The levels typically have monsters and rival mages in them. Not only they can hurt you with their attacks, but killing them is often necessary, as upon death they will release some of the mana you need to complete the level. To attack your enemies, you have a variety of spells at your disposal: fireballs, lightning bolts and meteors.

There are also many other spells available to you - they allow you to heal yourself, surround yourself with a protective shield, teleport around, summon a skeleton army, or even modify the terrain by creating volcanoes and splitting landmasses. Not all spells are available to you from the beginning, though.

Throughout all the levels, you are on your flying carpet, which can move in 3 dimensions. You can bring up a top-down map at any time.

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User Reviews

Too avant-garde for its own good? Maw (827) 4.25 Stars4.25 Stars4.25 Stars4.25 Stars4.25 Stars
Move over Aladdin...there's a new carpet in town! Smackmud (5) 5 Stars5 Stars5 Stars5 Stars5 Stars
An incredible experience you'll come back to every once in a while. Tomer Gabel Bronze Star Contributing Member (4476) 4.5 Stars4.5 Stars4.5 Stars4.5 Stars4.5 Stars

The Press Says

High Score Feb, 1995 5 out of 5 100
Coming Soon Magazine Dec, 1994 95 out of 100 95
Absolute Games (AG.ru) Feb 13, 2001 95 out of 100 95
PC Gamer Apr, 1995 95 out of 100 95
MikroBitti Jan, 1995 93 out of 100 93
PC Player (Germany) Dec, 1994 92 out of 100 92
PC Games (Germany) Nov, 1994 92 out of 100 92
PC Format (UK) Dec, 1994 91 out of 100 91
Power Unlimited Feb, 1995 9 out of 10 90

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Trivia

Magic Carpet was one of the first games to support 3D viewers/glasses in many different configurations. You can use virutal reality headsets, red/blue glasses... the program will even generate a realtime random dot stereogram!


This entry was contributed by Brian Hirt (9991), Tibes80 (1498) and Adam Baratz (1362)
 

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