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Incredible.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: July 21, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This title has spoiled me for the entire output of the gaming industry. It is far better than nearly every supposed "RPG" in existence. It contains such rarities as real drama, not the boring, hackneyed save-the-world-from-evil or save-your-twue-wuv-from-evil plots that pass for such in the industry; a real philosophical level worth thinking about without neat, clean answers; and an incredibly satisfying ending. Actually, until the ending Torment was only one of the three best games I'd ever played; afterward it was far and away the best. (I've been with this genre since Bard's Tale and Wasteland, or since adventure and rogue if you want to count them.) This game is a work of art which I presently despair of seeing matched.

One of the best CRPGs ever!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: July 18, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Finally a game worthy of the title "Role Playing Game"! Unlike many other CRPGs, which are really only hack and slash with barely a hint of a background story, Planescape Torment really let's you submerge yourself into the persona of the Nameless one. With a compelling story, choices which really affect the way you interact with the world, tons of texts worthy of a novel, believable characters and fights which don't dominate the game but are merely supplementary, Planescape Torment is one of the best RPGs ever!

You must buy this game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: March 20, 2000
Author: Amazon User

If you are at all interested in RPG games on the computer, then you must own this game.

The storyline is brilliant, the character development is stunning, the music and ambient sounds are breathtaking, and the spell effects are simply outstanding.

This game is so good, I am playing it for the 3rd time.

Trust me, you will NOT be disappointed with this game. You will even want to buy the novelization after you finish playing!

An excellent RPG.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: January 10, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I'm satisfied if the story line and characters are strong, and in this game both excel. Graphics may be dated but game players across the web typically rate this gem as top notch entertainment.

Another great game!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: March 15, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This is another great game from Interplay and it is very enjoyable to play (it's alot like Baldur's Gate to me) the only thing is it's another multi CD-Rom game so you have to change discs in the middle of the game. I think they should release a DVD version of this game also like they did with Baldur's Gate. Overall I would say it's definately worth the money. My only beef is it doesn't support multi-player which is what all good role playing games should do.

Oh. My. God

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: June 18, 2004
Author: Amazon User

The reviews in here speak for this game. Out of 147 reviews of Planescape: Torment, only seven had ratings under five stars. One of those was because they haven't received the game yet, one of them is because they are not aware of the fact that Black Isle released patches on the net to fix bugs in early versions, three because they are simply too impatient to allow the storyline to unfold in all its glory, and two who admitted that it wasn't their kind of game.
But I don't believe them. That's just ridiculous.
Fair enough, if you are a total Ad&D nerd that wants laborious character creation and endless menus, then this is not your game. In this game, your character is shaped by how you play the game, not vice versa. Go and play Baldur's Gate with all your other lonely friends.
This game is the absolute pinnacle of gaming perfection, from the graphics to the cutscenes, to the characters and the many locations wandering the planes takes you to.
And let's not forget about the storyline. My GOD, the storyline. I cannot describe in words the sheer rollercoaster of emotions your character takes you through in the quest to find yourself; the decisions you make and the impact they could have on the multiverse. Also, the man, the legend, Tony Jay, the "Most evil voice of all time" lends his superior talents to the voice of the final boss, an ever-present reminder of the evil that can occur in this strange world.

Anyone who does not agree that this game is sex in a box should have their head examined. Best. Game. Ever. 140 out of 147 reviewers cannot be wrong.

Best game I ever played

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 8
Date: March 05, 2000
Author: Amazon User

In addition to being a superb CRPG, this game is very different than other games - simply because the story is such a good story. If this was a book, I would say it is awesome - how many computer games do you know you could say that for?

Great RPG, but not for everyone

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 8
Date: June 07, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I'm a big fan of Baldur's Gate and the Fallouts, so naturally I went and bought the next series, Planescape Torment. What I was confronted with was a game rich in storyline and graphic detail, but on the playability end as compared to the other RPG's released by Interplay, I knew issues were at hand. The game runs slow sometimes even if you have a super PC and the patch is virtually a must if you want fully enjoy the game.

First and foremost, I am a huge fan of Bioware. I think they have done wonders for both PC RPG's and also bringing AD&D to the computer. But, After I was a few hours into the game, I was hit with the cold similarity that Planescape Torment was very easily compared to the Fallout series. It seemed to me strongly that the Planescape Torment setting was awfully close to the Fallout games. I'm not too much into conspiracies, but I'll put my money on it that this game was a result of a dropped project to make Fallout 3 using the Baldur's Gate Engine. The graphics, the screen font, the dark settings, they all fit Fallout. This was a bummer to me, and I almost felt like I was playing a thrown together project saved by a team of fans from the Planescape setting.

But, I can't let that ruin the game. It is a very intelligent game, and certainly not one for kids in terms of understanding and content. The dialogue and intrigue are very intense and do make you part of the game and your character, much more than almost any game I've played before. That is not an easy feat for a PC game.

My final analysis is that this may not be a game for fans of Baldur's Gate or Fallout, and with the later fans you will absolutely see what I'm saying when comparing Planescape to the post-apocalyse setting. That is where my fifth star dissapeared to. All in all, this is an excellent roleplaying game, but not for all RPG fans. This is a thinking game, not a combat game. A job well done once again at Bioware.

a true RPG: great story, great characters, cool locations

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: September 09, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I wasn't really excited about the game at first. But I found that the escape from the mortuary was just a tutorial: the real stuff was ahead. I got really emersed in the story and found myself talking to characters for hours on end, not because I wanted to earn some XP, but really because I was interested, I wanted to learn more of this strange world, I wanted to know about Sigil, the Planes, my lost memories, my destiny.
I didn't play the game for the combat. I had choosen to be a warrior, but I found myself assigning more and more points to wisdom and intelligence, to improve my dialog choices and regain more memories.
I played it for weeks on end, exploring every dialog option, trying everyting, just to find out more about the strange places I found myself.
After such a great game, I found the final showdown a little disappointing, but, as I sayd - its not all about combat.
It didn't stop me from playing it again a year afterwards.
This game isn't my second all-time favorite for nothing!
Get this game....

They are right to call this a novel

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: December 21, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game really is like a very good novel, and, as far as role-playing games go, it is thus only second to BG2, which, in much the same way, is like a very interesting kind of reality.

In case there actually is someone who does not yet know it: Torment is a game where death is (usually) a mere inconvenience, sometimes even a tool. The main character is, for some unknown reason, immortal, although he sometimes loses his memories and changes his personality between when he has temporarily died and then got up again. Naturally, this does not happen during the game (even if it does, that is one of the rare "game over" situations), but has just happened when it begins, so he starts out wondering why he is lying in a mortuary and who this person wondering it is anyway.

From there starts a long, atmospheric, philosophic story about how he tried to find out those things. Though this "Nameless One" is the character you play, and the others are just as much their own individuals as in BG (1 or 2), and you can choose his statistics, class, behaviour etc., he still feels kind of like the main character of a story who is not under you control. There are lots of choices and such, but the story still advances like in FF VII or something like that; you are supposed to follow it intensively, but always slightly from the outside. This is a big difference to the BG's, where you still follow the story but it definitely is *you* who is following the story and taking part of it, not some weird, scarred guy no-one would really want to be. But this is not a real flaw of any kind. The story is bloody fantastic, supported by suitably atmospheric - usually meaning gloomy - graphics and music.

Eh, and the other stuff. Like said, the graphics and music are good, and the latter is in fact too good to be called merely "good". Other sounds are quite, quite good as well. The interface works nicely enough. At first I found the battles tedious and unenjoyable, but maybe it just needed some practise, because when I quit playing for some time - I could not figure out what I had to do next - and played BG for some time before getting back to Torment, they had suddenly turned quite pleasing. The other characters that can join your party had almost BG2 - level personalities (I just cannot help making comparisons to that one, but then again, it is *the* best).

So, a very good game, unless you thought Diablo had too much role playing elements or, in other words, only want action.

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