Exile: Escape from the Pit
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A 'classic' RPG, featuring level-based party advancement in various skills that define the character. Features turn-based combat, lots of enemies, a huge area to explore, and dozens if not hundreds of characters to talk to, with a text-entry method.
Exile is the name of a huge system of underground caverns, used by an oppressive surface empire as a place to toss the undesired, those who just "don't fit in" to the status quo that the empire loves to enforce. In addition to trying to stay alive, your party (recent arrivals in Exile) must scour the rocky lands and assist the people and king of Exile by fighting off rival armies, species, and an underground evil barely contained until now.
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Average score: 74% (based on 2 ratings)
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Average score: 3.7 out of 5 (based on 10 ratings with 1 reviews)
This is some shareware that you just have to try.
The Good
I downloaded this shareware game five years ago and played as far as I could (being a college student at the time, I couldn't really buy the game). For an RPG in 1995, there was a lot of detail in the game. Items, people, quests, there was just so much to see and do. I actually bought it a year or so ago and I still enjoy it (of course I have that whole retro gaming thing, so maybe I'm biased...).
This game lets you start a party from scratch (or use a predefined one, but thats no fun <g>). There are no classes to chooses from, so you can make any of your characters anything. Of course you might want to make a fighter guy, and a thief person, and other standard characters, but its completely up to you. Once your party is made, you are free to explore the world you have just emtered. This has to be one of the most non-linear games I have ever played.
Combat (you can never have an RPG without some of this) requires a little bit of planning. No grand strategies, but you have to put more thought into it than him bad, kill. Magic can shorten up combat considerably, and a little rest in the outdoors can replenish your mana without wasting time going back to town.
The Bad
Even for a game of its age, the graphics were pretty bad. Even after a graphics upgrade, it is still a little rudimentary. Also the sound comes in little snippets. These aren't big complaints, but you should know that you are not in for a Baldur's Gate kind of visual experience.
The Bottom Line
This is a fairly good game for $25. If you like open ended RPG's, you may want to try this one.
Windows 3.x · by Narf! (132) · 2000
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| Subject | By | Date |
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| Exile series freeware | MrFlibble (18361) | Jul 17, 2013 |
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Game added by George Shannon.
Macintosh added by Pat Cdr.
Additional contributors: lilliputian.
Game added January 20, 2000. Last modified June 5, 2024.