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Two stars, and that's only for the graphics...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: August 15, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Come now, who here really thinks they put some time into designing this game? The game's story is as horrible as it is cliché and is being voice acted by people that sound too much like a student film class working on a mid-term project.

Combat consistis of clicking your mouse button in timed bursts or uning an asinine keybord interface to swing your weapon in three different strengths. Whee.

Magic spell creation is novel, but quickly become tedious and dangerous in the middle of combat when you're trying like a madman (or madwoman) to heal yourself, but can't get the runes lined-up in time.

And even the graphics, which are nice, are loaded with bugs. In most cases, whenever an enemy would drop an item, the background would spring 'holes' of black space around it and cause nemerous graphic flaws until it would finally crash without explination. Furthermore, some enemies would become 'stuck' in some void on your screen preventing you from being able to attack it!

Overall, a terrible clone attempt at Diablo that should make Eidos ashamed...and let's not even bring up Dikatana, okay?

Great playing for such a bad story

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: November 11, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game plays wonderfully. The movement, graphics and fighting are very well done. The problem is just that the games plotline was terriblly designed. I had so much money and so many potions by the end that there was no way that I could possibly lose. The game is so short it is hard to call it a real RPG. It only took me ten hours or so to beat. Each time you meet a new enemy the game becomes challangeing for about three or four minutes before you figure out how to beat that creauture. The magic is well done graphicly and the healing and invisibilty spells are somewhat usefull, but not nessesarry to winning. The offensive spells are just useless. They are hard to cast and don't cause enough damage to warent their use. If the people who created this game had taken just a little bit longer to make the game longer and more challengeing this game would really be worth having.

good action\rpg hybrid

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 11 / 14
Date: November 28, 1999
Author: Amazon User

Revenant is a good game that could have been so much more if cinematix\Eidos had held on to it for a couple more weeks. This game embodies the best blending of fighting and role-playing yet to be seen in an rpg, hopefully diablo 2 will include such challenging and creative fighting techniques and encounters along with fairly strong role-playing elements. Unfortunately, the game has some glaring weaknesses that reveal it's incompleteness. My hard drive was grinding constantly and the graphics stuttered and jumped indicating unoptimized code. Too often I would try to rush into battle to gain the initiative only to have a graphical glitch slow me down or stop me all together. Also, npc's hinted at joining my character in battle but this never materialized. Hopefully, an expansion pack will be released addressing these issues and providing a much bigger world to experience more of this scintillating rpg action.

Decent game

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 12, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is pretty decent. It's a little different than most Diablo clones, you can play it with a controller. You get combos as you level up. It's a little buggy, I don't think it jives with Windows XP. I reinstalled windows because while trying to get the video to work right, I corrupted stuff. It turns out all I had to do was click off the "slow gameplay" button in the options. It made the menus and the game stutter like crazy with it on. With it off the game ran a little too fast, but it was tolerable. Kinda crappy graphics, but its an interesting game.

SHORT

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: March 01, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This was a GREAT game the first 3 days i had it. The main problem is that it is WAY TOO SHORT. I mean you can finish it in a couple of days and then where are you -- out $40 and still bored stiff. On the plus side -- the diablo - like fights are great with the combo moves like mortal kombat.

Comes close

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: January 12, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Control is a lacking feature in this game. It alos seems to be a bit too linear in its play making it lack in the RPG category. All in all I found it to be enjoyable and I loved the Jerry Garcia herb dealer. Nicely done.

Solid game, worth every penny ....

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 14 / 14
Date: June 03, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I got a good deal on this game. I purchased it ... at a local retailer and the thought 'if it sucks i'm not out much' went through my mind. I brought it home and installed it not expecting much out of this game. Once I started playing though I was blown away. This is a great game in the spirit of Diablo 2 and Nox. You start out as a revenant, a resurrected spirit with no recollection of your past. You must fight an evil cult and rescue the king's daughter, at least I think he was a king, i didn't really pay much attention because the dialogue is annoying in this game.

Aside from the annoying dialogue, and it is very annoying, the rest of the game rocks. The way spells are cast is interesting and different from normal games where scrolls are memorized or written in a magic book. The melee combat is good because your character has 4 different attacks instead of the one slash attack in Diablo 2. Granted he can't learn a whirlwind attack or leap attack but who cares? That's not realistic anyway.

The graphics and sound are both very good. The only problem is sometimes I have difficulties picking up items off the ground, especially if they are hidden behind the leaves of a tree. Also, sometimes you will get stuck behind a rock or the edge of a fence line and it takes a bit to get unstuck, but you never remain there forever.

I also like the way I can see enemies on my map so if my health is very low and I have no food or potions I can avoid them, making my way back to town.

This game is worth as much as $36.95. I might have given it a few more dollars if it weren't for the annoying dialogue.

Fun the first time.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 9 / 11
Date: December 01, 1999
Author: Amazon User

It's one of the best action rpg mixes in a while, but I say rpg reluctantly because it has a singalur plotline and no replay value. The first time through however, it is one of the best games ever.

Short, easy, but surprisingly enjoyable!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: October 26, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Originally attracted by the box, which you've got to admit is one of the best-looking around, I'd been thinking of buying Revenant for ages but considered it vastly overpriced (unlike Black Isle games, which seem to drop in price by at least half when they've been out for a remarkably short while). Recent lower pricing (along with the long wait for the release of Baldur's Gate 2) saw me grabbing a copy, loading it up and setting off on a short, but immensely enjoyable quest. It turned out to be a great time filler.

In the single player mode, your character is Locke D'Averam, dead for 10,000 years but because of unique skills, brought back onto the mortal coil to rescue the kidnapped daughter of the head honcho of Misthaven, the main town on the island of Ahkuilon, by a mysterious magician with (surprise, surprise!) his own agenda. During his quest, aspects of Locke's past gradually reveal themselves and his visions start making sense by the end. Sounds like a poor man's "Planescape: Torment", you might think, but since nothing can compare to that epic, forget it and judge it on it's own merits.

Likened by many to Diablo, this game is superior in that it actually has a reasonably compelling storyline (though badly voice acted) and the combat system is not your average hack'n'slash - you learn new battle techniques from the master as you advance. The use of a game pad is strongly recommended, though I survived all the combat encounters by pounding the hell out of my keyboard while moving about with the mouse. The scenery is beautifully rendered (the lighting is a real feature), and animation of Locke and his enemies is superb, though a tad repetitious - like the giant spiders getting stuck on the sword and having to be removed with obvious difficulty (hilarious the first time), the death gurgles of the ninja guys got old very quickly.

This is the only game I've played lately where you can carry everything you find - there don't seem to be any weight limits and there are millions of slots, especially once you have a few pouches which you really need to negotiate the huge inventory you end up with (I had about 10 full suits of armour at the end - I was too scared to sell any in case I needed their special properties). Even though the armourer and weapon smith promise bigger and better equipment, you actually find the best stuff during the quest, though you need to buy some stuff to start off with. Unlike many other games, except at the very beginning, I always had enough cash to buy any potions, etc. that I needed. In fact, at the (rather abrupt) end, I had about 60 unused potions of various sorts, and about $100,000. Also, your character is usually strong enough and well enough equipped to survive most encounters pretty easily. I found the fact that he wasn't constantly being killed quite refreshing. None of the puzzles were too taxing, though I had to redo one level for the want of one vial.

Even though the price was reduced, it was still fractionally more than I paid for Planescape: Torment, or for that matter, Baldur's Gate, each of which provided rich and stimulating entertainment for a couple of months. I spent exactly a week getting to the end of Revenant, and since I'd been having such fun, I was totally unprepared for it. Remember how disappointing the end of Diablo was? Ditto for Revenant - the final encounter was quite easy for my impressively armoured, well-armed and richly provisioned character and the whole thing was quickly wrapped up in a movie sequence. It left me feeling the story was only half told and that the developers just suddenly decided to get it to some sort of conclusion and out in the shops, while they got on with something else. I wish they'd just gone on with the next chapter - despite any shortcomings mentioned above, I thoroughly enjoyed it! This is the game to play when you're half concentrating on something else - in my case, LIVE coverage of the Sydney Olympics.

Baldur's Gate meets Mortal Kombat

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 8
Date: December 10, 1999
Author: Amazon User

This is one of those games you stay up all night playing even though you have to work the next morning. Too bad it will only take you three nights to finish it.... There are a couple of video-related bugs that made the status screens unreadable - supposedly a patch is on the way. The bugs didn't really affect gameplay, though, and the gameplay is outstanding. Some of the combo attacks rival what you might find in a Mortal Kombat type of game. The RPG elements are rather lightweight, but if you're like me and get annoyed trying to keep tagalong NPC's alive through a game like Baldur's Gate you're really going to like this one! Not a great game by any means, but definately good for three bleary nights of fun!

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