Description
Dungeon Keeper takes real-time strategy into a fantasy setting. You command a dungeon and its hellish minions, and must take them to glory against the hated good guys. You must use your gold to build a fortress and weapons to attack.
As well as being able to rotate the 3D view, and control the light source, you can enter the direct viewpoints of your men, to see life through their eyes (one character's mode goes into black and white for this).
Alternate Titles
- "地城守護者" -- Chinese spelling (traditional)
- "Dungeon Keeper: Evil is Good" -- Tag-lined title
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Trivia
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Jason Musgrave:
On a personal note, at the Software Etc. that I was working at when this came out, the manager felt the tagline of "Evil is Good" may offend some people (we were connected to a Barnes & Noble bookstore) and purposely placed the price tag over the word "Evil" on every box. The result was that the box would read; "Dungeon Keeper.... is Good".
Avatar
The arch-enemy of
Dungeon Keeper is the Avatar from the
Ultima line of games. In the official hint guide for the game, under the profiles for the Avatar "Lord of the Land", the graphic for him is the same used in the introduction of
Ultima Online. (The same visage was also used in
Ultima IX: Ascension).
Creatures
Each creature has a different style of sight in first-person view. For example the fly has a insect like hex shape, and the hellhound sees in black and white.
Development
Dungeon Keeper is probably one of the most anticipated games which Bullfrog has worked over three years for its development. It was first shown to the public in the spring of
1995 but was released just before the summer of 1997. Dungeon Keeper was also the last Bullfrog game
Peter Molyneux had worked on. He then left Bullfrog and founded its own company called Lionhead Studios(www.lionhead.co.uk)
Extras
In the CD-ROM of
Dungeon Keeper you can find some goodies in the goodies directory.
German version
In the German version all specific torture animations were replaced with the generic tent animation.
Monk
The chanting monks seem to sing "norske svin", which is Danish for "Norwegian bastards".
References
One of the most expensive spells in the game is the one that penetrates an opponent's reinforced walls, called Destroy Walls. When you cast the spell the advisor's voice said, "Penitenziagite." This sounds a little like "penetrate" but is in fact an extremely obscure reference to
Umberto Eco's novel,
The Name of the Rose. "Penitenziagite" was the rallying cry of a (real) heretical 14th-century band of monks who murdered wealthy churchmen on the grounds that Jesus had commanded poverty.
Soundtrack
All of the music for
Dungeon Keeper, including the opening movie sequence, are available on the game CD as Redbook Audio.
Awards
- GameStar (Germany)
- Issue 12/1999 - #42 in the "100 Most Important PC Games of the Nineties" ranking
- PC Gamer
- April 2000 - #47 in the "All-Time Top 50 Games" poll
Information also contributed by
Andrew Grasmeder,
Ernest Adams,
Indra was here,
Maw,
Jason Musgrave and
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