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One of the Great Games

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 12 / 13
Date: October 27, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I always wanted to give this game a try but never did purchase the game. It always had very good reviews and perked my interest as a WoT fan. Gamespy recently put it in their top 25 underrated games, it was in the top 10, so I tried to hunt down a copy. Atari still sells it directly from their site.

This is an awesome FPS game, one of the best I've played and I've played them all. Great story, and great graphics given the game's age. Better game then Half Life in my opinion.

Game play is awesome and very strategic. You need to conserve your resources and use them wisely and you are given many options for getting through the levels. The level design is another awesome aspect of the game, the levels are extemely well designed and beautiful.

I was surprised how good the AI was. There are quirks and expolitable situations but I don't remember playing a game recently that had AI as good as WoT. The enemies are very agressive.

For the price you can get the game for from Atari, its a steal.

I was almost surprised to see the few negative reviews here, but none of them really give an indepth review of the game. Of course its expected that some WoT fans would be disappointed but as a fan myself I feel Legend did the right thing. They did not try to adapt the existing books to the game, they merely used the world Jordan created and did a great job of it.

This is an FPS, through and through. Its not an RP game, though it does a great job in story telling. Piece of advice, keep CD2 in the drive while playing the game or you will miss the movies that explain much of the plot and add a lot of atmosphere. I noticed a few reviewers seemed to miss the thread of the story and most likely its because they missed the movies. You need to have QuickTime installed to see the movies, provided on the game's cd though its an old version. Movies ran fine with QT6 on my machine. You can also run a setup from CD2 and install the music and movies to your hard drive. (Yes, this means you can run the game without having the cd in the drive, this feature really dates the game.)

What can I say, I thoroughly enjoyed this game and I'm kicking myself for not having playing it in 1999/2000. On a P4 3ghz, ATI Radeon 9700 Pro on WinXP the game runs perfectly. The version available from Atari does not need any patching, they're already applied.

oh my.....

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 9 / 10
Date: January 29, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I have read lots about this game. Looked endlessly for it the various software/retail outlets I have frequented in several major cities. After much looking around I finally ordered from here. As I was eagerly anticipating the arrival of the game, I immediately opened and loaded it onto my hard drive. Graphics--A, very nice actually, coming from Diablo/Hellfire/Diablo 2, a nice step up. Tutorial--very helpful, interface different from what I am used to but not difficult at all. Gameplay--absolute garbage. Extremely linear "quest" system, with frequent dying, and frustration of not finding where to go and there being only ONE way to do things. Char you play is so weak that the challenge is to save early enough so as to be able to attempt play before being completely annilated, again. Once you progress through a few of these "quests", you get the idea that you should find items in a certain order so as to deal with the various "challenges" you face, i.e. frequent death. Read any of the web sites/forums dedicated to this game and you will find frequent "hey I am stuck" posts asking for help. I have wiped this garbage off my hard drive and I am extremely disappointed that I had to pay for this kind of "game" experience.

Great action game. Not for thinking gamers.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 13 / 18
Date: December 19, 1999
Author: Amazon User

This game was initally a let down. I was looking for the next generation of Tolkein type game: puzzles and logic mixed with sinister enemies and battles. Intead I found a world of amazing imagery and detail. The action is non-stop and the scenes were exactly as they were described in the books.

This is a Quake, or Doom, or Unreal type shoot'em up, but is superbly done and is much more detailed.

One thing to note is you must have lots of free space (500M MINIMUM! ) To run the game and more to run it effectivly.

A must buy for any who liked Unreal.

Beautiful game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 14 / 21
Date: November 16, 1999
Author: Amazon User

This game takes the unreal engine to new heights with pure beauty. It loosely follows the rules of Robert Jordan's series though the gameplay and fun more than make up for a few missing points. This is a must have for any fan of the series just for the enjoyment of bringing it to life and giving a person the chance to live in the world a bit and kill a few things.

A good game that could have been great...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 11 / 15
Date: March 11, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Let me start out by saying that I have never read any of the books, so I didn't have any expectations. The cutscenes do a fairly good job of explaining things to the "uninitiated," and I quickly found myself being drawn into the story. This game moves along very quickly and is unbelievably fun to play, despite being a bit short. Although I listed quite a few negative points, they are all relatively minor.

The pros: Indoor areas are absolutely gorgeous (rivals even Q3A), quality cinematics and music, all the spells are useful and have nifty effects, very challenging (a plus for us "elite gamers" :P)

The cons: Spell selection is cumbersome (an option to bind keys to spells would have been nice), too few character models, Direct3D is sluggish, multiplayer is laggy (even on a 100Mbps switched LAN! )

Bottom line: A sound buy for adventure game fans, although hardcore Robert Jordan fans will likely be disappointed. With a little tweaking to the Direct3D and multiplayer code, this game could easily have been 5 stars.

The game is all it was promised to be and more!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 11
Date: August 22, 2000
Author: Amazon User

It doesnt matter if you are a Wheel of Time aficianado or a no-reading game freak! The Wheel of Time game is for everyone who wants to play a great game based on one of the best book series ever. The single player game focuses around an Aes Sedai who is sent on a special mission by the white tower. You have 40 Ter'Angreal at your disposal and can use them also in the multiplayer game. Ill explain more about the multiplayer game later but for now its really fun and the single player game revolves around an Aes Sedai and you learn how a whitecloak (a magic hater) can stand to use a magic tool...and you learn about the hound an evil creature from shadar logoth and also about the Forsaken a super powerful magic user. Well I dont know about you guys but I sure eagerly awaited the Wheel of Time game and as I sit here writing in Seattle (im on vacation) I just cant help but think about the great multiplayer game as well as the advanced singleplayer game. The architecture is truly awesome in a game and the scope of the textures and Ter'Angreals is awesome. I can faithfully recommend this game to anyone who likes first person shooters with a little bit of strategy and roleplaying mixed in. Naturally the story line is set in the world of Jordan's Wheel of Time, but it does not follow the same story line because the game wouldave been over 50 discs just to include everything Jordan would want to make an accurate repersentation of the books, its not a parallel either but rather set some 500 years before the present books story line. The multiplayer game has two modes: Citadel and Arena. Citadel is a game where you set up your forces in your own fortress and play one of the 4 characters (Hound, Forsaken, White Cloak, Aes Sedai) and attempt to steal at least 2 other seals from the other characters so they can control whether or not to keep the dark one locked away in his seals or free him. The second type of multiplayer is arena is your standard deathmatch you against the world style where you attempt to destroy your other combatants using the 40 ter angreal at your disposal.

Not like the books, but good enough

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 9
Date: May 20, 2001
Author: Amazon User

The graphics are great. If you've read the books then you'll love walking the Ways, Shadar Logoth, and the White Tower.

The Fades are excellent in this. Everything in the WoT series is represented very well in the game, that which is represented anyway.

My complaints are these...

1.)You have no Warder 2.)You can't channel the True Source without help from an Angreal 3.)I had problems running this game on my DVD-ROM....I had to use my CD-RW drive instead...weird?

Lots of fun....wish it was an RPG...or online RPG!!!

Timeless...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 10
Date: August 10, 2003
Author: Amazon User

As of now, this game has been out about 3 years. This will lead a lot of people to believe it feels dated. Not the case. It , more so, feels like a classic. The atmosphere is very fitting of the layout of the book (s). Very intense fighting with a proper soundtrack flowing in the background. Nice particle effects for an early 2000 game. Overall, the atmosphere overtakes the graphics and music. That is what makes this timeless. You feel exactly what the author wanted you to feel .Immersed in his world. Very long program with incredible cutscenes. If you are not a fan of cutscenes do NOT get this. This baby is chock-full of very well crafted,and acted, cutscenes that add even more reasonance to the world you will never want to leave. I had no trouble getting this to swap from my old windows 98 system to my new windows xp system. That's a huge plus. I still have the honor of playing one of the top 5 pc games ever made. In my opinion. And, no ,MYST is not on my list.

Amazing Multiplayer Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: June 06, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This is a truely amazing first person shooter -- especially, but not solely, for Jordan fans. The various combinations of offensive and defensive weaponry (ter'angreals) allow for a mind-splitting variety of strategies and tactics in the Arena (deathmatch) and Citadel (capture the flag) play modes. (And I am generally NOT a fan of first person shooters). The graphics are also exceptional, if you have a powerful graphics card and a lot of RAM. I have barely scratched the surface of the single player game despite owning the title for over three months -- the multiplayer is just so good that I never get around to the singleplayer! There is also a very active online fan community -- with an array of clans you can try out for (see www.wotgame.com), which makes an enjoyable experience that much better. Stop dawdling -- click that button and buy this game!

Irresistable, a gamer's dream come true!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 11
Date: September 18, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Wheel of Time is THE best game i have ever seen. Loaded with stunning Unreal graphics this game really kicks. Single player is filled with brialliant life like levels, the multi player is an exiting addition with citadel and arena! There is always a challenge and you never get bored! You are constantly interacting with differnt players in deffernt servers all across the world. Robert Jordsn's world has been brought to life. A Must-Get-Game for wheel of time fans and gamers alike!

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