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Eye of Beholder D&D GBA

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: February 20, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is too boring and not as good as the real board game. DONT BUY IT. You would have more fun buying the board games and actign them out.

For hardcore fans only

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: February 03, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Graphics below par
Sound below par

Gameplay is good
Nostalgic of the good ol' days when D&D games first came out on the 386

Overall a good game made mostly tailored for D&D fans.

For the love of God don't buy this game!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: June 26, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I've seen alot of crappy games come out for game boy, but this is positively the worst yet! I have never played the PC version of this game and I bet it is good in its own right, but unless you plan on burning money for the hell of it don't buy this game. The graphics suck bigtime and the levels are too easy!

Heres some advice for you people who plan on re-making old games: Give the game better graphics, different levels than the original, hidden levels and a player friendly interface.

This game does not include any of these things!

P.S. I only gave this game one star because Amazon wouldn't let me put zero stars!

Rating depends on the price, 4 stars for 5 dollar

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: May 12, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I am currently playing this game on gba. I know the original version (on amiga and pc), and based on the reviews here on amazon, people said it had a map and isometric battle; i decided to give it a try ( i paid $25 for it).

(1) there are minor bugs in the map system such as it went up-side-down (!) a few times (no i was not drunk, it WAS upside down) the cursor goes astray. Not a show stopper though.

(2) the essential game killer here is this: you can rest after EVERY combat, with no food / drink problems (in contrast to the 2nd edition version) so your party will always be maximally prepared (you can always save so you do this after each battle) with all the spells prepared, and you will NOT EVER be disturbed in your sleep - the bad guys simply wait for you to be slaugthered, giving indeed the game the very short life span of 8 hours.

(3) apart from level 1, the maps are very different (you can look it up via a simple internet search, it won't spoil the game) compare the original eotb maps with those of the gba also published; gba maps are too simple.

(4) the story line is weaker than that of the original: the teleportation puzzle of the dwarven/stone etc keys as i remember them is gone, and the rest is simple battle, which gets a little pointless, because all the rooms look all the same. Not a show stopper either.

(5) in battle you are given a random setup of your figures, and the figures can NOT move around each other. Which means every character must have bows in order to reach an enemy but those in front will lose a full round re-equipping. The setup of who goes in line # that is too complex and i always wind up having the figthers in the back. This really IS very frustrating.

(6) i know dnd 3rd as well as adnd, and what the dice do in this game in battle is just way too weird - far too often a miss with a fighter with a dwarven waraxe +1 on a simple skeleton. Far too often a fumble with a 3rd lvl mage with combat casting, trying to cast a magic missile (!);

(7) some spells are completely irrelevant. finding 2+ level in your spellbook is a pain in the a*s.

Nice but not the real thing, it's a nice to have, nothing more. My advice, rent it, because you WILL finish it in one free saturday (promise). to the makers: It's fine to change a game a bit, but it has obviously not been tested. in my opinion this type of marketing is a Shame!

Ah, nostalgia!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: April 10, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Okay, this game isn't very pretty, nor is it a long-time play. What it IS is a throwback to the old SSI, TSR Gold Box 5 1/4" Floppy disk computer RPGS. It's got the same great graphics, same great battle system, and same hokey music. If you're not old enough to remember the Gold Box series of games, or if you never played them, obviously this game is not for you. But if,like myself, you harken back to those hallowed days, then this game will give you the same naughtly little happy feeling in your toes.

MaxiMagicus

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: January 27, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I am a 38-year old GBA fan and RPG fan. I bought this game, plugged it into my GBA, saw the graphics and interface, stuffed it back into the box. Too much time passed and I couldn't return it, so I tossed it in the trash with no regrets!

Worst Adaptation of a PC game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: December 13, 2003
Author: Amazon User

You would think redoing a game eleven years later could be done well, but with this game they didn't really seem to care about what the game was like, or how much fun it would be to play. If you like old fashion dungeon crawls, go for the first release from 1990 for the PC. The combat is much better, and the maps are set up well. It's hard to find but well worth it.

Worst RPG ever!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 08, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I have to begin by saying that I'm a huge fan of both platform based RPG's and the more classic table top D&D. I can't begin to tell you how disappointed I was with this game! The only reason it warrants 1 star is the fact that the character creation is so spot on to the new 3rd Edition rules. It just goes downhill from there. Usually I'm a fan of dungeon crawls, but this was just too repetitive.

I didn't even bother finishing it before selling it :P

Boring

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: November 04, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I found it extremely boring...wandering around and then fighting.... yawn .... After playing GC Baldur's Gate and XBox D&D: Heroes this is really disappointing.
I played it 1 hour and I'm going to trade it in.

Fairly dissapointing.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: September 03, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Um... Yeah. I'm a huge D&D player, and I think this game stinks. There Is no in game music, (Trying to recreate the feel of a dungeon?) Basically most of the game is spent wandering around mindlessly, until combat, in which it's impossible to hit your enemys. around 80% of the time your charecter will end up getting slaughtered. Not worth the time or money. Get the real D&D books instead. Only buy this game if you wish to wander around and get slaughtered.

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