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   Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Eye of the Beholder - Sega CD SEGA CD $2.99   Eye of the Beholder SNES $1.68   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	DOS	Optimus (71)
Awesome for the time, still a great game today.	DOS	Gothicgene (83)
A decent AD&D dungeon crawl	DOS	pogalogen (14)
A champion RPG for it's time.	DOS	Andrew Morgan (2)
Dungeon Hacking at it's best...	DOS	Chris Martin (1116)
A great game, but I liked its sequel much better.	DOS	Tomer Gabel (4476)
Any game with Larry Elmore's art on its cover is a good game.	DOS	OlSkool_Gamer (101)
Wow!!!	DOS	lomikin (4)

The Press Says

Computer and Video Games (CVG)	DOS	May, 1991	96 out of 100	96
Computer and Video Games (CVG)	Amiga	May, 1991	95 out of 100	95
Amiga Points of View	Amiga	Dec, 2003	92 out of 100	92
CU Amiga	Amiga	May, 1991	86 out of 100	86
Abandonia	DOS	Mar 03, 2004	4 out of 5	80
Sega-16.com	SEGA CD	Apr 18, 2005	8 out of 10	80
GamePro	SEGA CD	Aug, 1994	4 out of 5	80
Power Play	DOS	May, 1991	79 out of 100	79
The Video Game Critic	SEGA CD	Aug 09, 2002	B	75
Video Games & Computer Entertainment	SEGA CD	Oct, 1994	7 out of 10	70

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Trivia

Eye of the Beholder was praised for its stylish cinematic opening sequence, which dazzled players and set the stage of the game to follow.

However, since the final game's size weighed in at 5 3.5" disks, SSI decided to cut the ending cinematic, figuring very few players would see it anyway, and it was not worth the extra cost of the sixth disk.

When EotB became a smash hit, MANY players who slogged it out to the end of the game were not amused when they were "rewarded" with a simple text message and unceremoniously dropped to DOS.

SSI soon realized their mistake, but the damage could not be undone. Many players assumed the game simply never had an ending, never suspecting it existed but was not included!

The Amiga version was later released with the final endgame graphic.