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This had so much potential....

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 27, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I pounced on this title the second it came out a couple of years back. I was soooo excited. There is a serious shortage of D&D related video games out there and, after playing the Baldur's Gate games, I had very high hopes for this one. I played this game for less than an hour before I returned it for significantly less store credit than what I had just paid for this waste of time. Yes, the game is visually stunning. But the developers should have spent as much time on game play as they did on making the game "pretty". The camera angles are the worst I have ever run in to (worse, even, than God of War) and when you are thrown into a hardcore fight right from the beginning (no character selection here) where you are forced to sneak and hide in order to survive, not being able to control where and what you're looking at is just stupid. And how in the world are you going to make a D&D game and skip right past one of the most fun things about D&D: character creation?!!? Obviously, you never truly create a character in the console games, but come on... you don't even get a choice. No assigning points to control the traits you'd like to excel at. No customization of what the character looks like. Nada! You wind up being able to control all of the characters, but this was as badly executed as the camera angles. Too much of a pain in the a** to be worthwhile. I usually have more patience for games since I know nothing is ever perfect, but damn. This was a waste of time and money. Shame on you for ruining a wonderful chance to make a killer RPG for a console.

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