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5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 12
Date: January 08, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I played the demo before I played the game.. and let me tell you WHOA! I was impressed by the graphics, and it literally scared the geebies outta me. This game's awesome if you want your blood to pump!

Very Very Dissappointing :o(

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: May 17, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I have been reading through the books and when I found out that a game was to be released I was very excited. When I got the game however I was extremely dissappointed to find out that, with all the complexity of Jordan's world, the best they could come up with was a 1st person shooter. The books are so intricate and complex, and yet with this game there is no character interaction, nothing to figure out. On top of all this, the music was terrible. Instead of authentic stringed and woodwind instruments they get some bad rock band who throw in a fiddle every once in a while. I had to turn it off. As far as 1st person shooters go it was great, but when I think about the series and all they could have done, this was a terrible dissappointment.

So-So game

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 8
Date: January 30, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I'll start with all the negative stuff, to get it out of the way, then try to salvage it.

Single player sucks. Big time. I died several times on the easiest setting on the first level. I eventually gave in and used cheat codes, all the while wondering how anybody could get through it without them. The devices at your disposal, while handy, are too numerous at times. By the time you realize, "hey, now would be a nice opportunity to try out such-and-such-terangreal", you're pretty much a goner. But that might just be me. There are also several technicalities between the books and game that, while they don't really detract from game play, are still annoying to deal with.

Now that that's done with, i can say good job on the graphics, music, and movies. They are all very well done, and the movies are a blast to watch. I also enjoyed playing citadel mode on multiplayer. Running around, yelling things at people (who have the same game-related handycaps you do, unlike the enemies from single player), and eventually killing them is a hoot. This one thing almost makes it worth the money. I know it definitely provides replay value.

Cough Hack Gag***

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 20, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Ok, forget the game in style, play, and everything else. This is based on the WoT!!! and they made it an FPS!!! ????? This should have been made into a diablo style game at the minimum, and now that we have World of Warcraft, there is a much better comparison to what the game should have been based on. Most people are not going to find that they enjoyed the books, and therefore enjoyed the game. Its too... not like the books. Unlike the sucessful Jedi Knight Series, that we all loved as an FPS, (First person shooter) -because thats what you do in star wars blow stuff up and run around real fast using flash force powers- The WoT needs to be an RPG or an MMORPG. We want long game play, big plot, closely tied to the storyline. If your coming at this as an FPS to play enjoy. If your coming at this as a WoT game, run.

The Game Wouldn't Even Install

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: February 08, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I own a Compaq desktop, model 5686, & a HP Pavillion laptop, model ze5170. Both have Windows XP. I tried installing the game from 3 different CD Rom drives, 1 of which was my CD burner and the other a DVD/CD drive. None of them worked. The disk kept getting stuck on the Maps/Mission_10.wot file. I may have just gotten a dud, but I wouldn't try buying this game again unless I knew for sure that it worked on at least one computer that I own.

Certainly a big no-no for a Wot fan

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 7
Date: January 19, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Well, I consider myself a WOT fan. I waited for this game with as much anticipation as I'm currently waiting for the 9th book. Finally, after eons of visiting the internet page and watching those pretty screenshots I managed to buy it. But, let's say it in four words: it wasn't worth it.

Of course it helped me to visualise the world a little bit, but at the same time the story and gameplay weren't what I had been expecting for so long. First the choice of places you visit. I guess those places (Shadar Logoth, White Tower, Mnts. Of Mist, Blight and an off the beat Whitecloak fortress) are there due to the fact that converting the whole Tear or Caemlyn for us would be a great work, but still this is not what I had been expecting.

Then the fact that you only use ter'angreal during the game. Leaving out channeling surely was a wise decision (consider the sight of a roomful of sisters weaving their patterns), but leaving out the system of angreal was a stupid mistake. I certainly don't think that the dart-thingy in the game is worth naming a ter'angreal. Even when I try to convince myself that in those places I visited there really weren't any sa'angreal the idea of wasting about two tons of cuendillar just for killing off some of those evil trollocs or whitecloaks seems disgusting to me. And I won't start telling you about all the things Balefire can do and what it can't do...

Then the storyline. It is too simple for me. It has got the neither overwhelming grab of the books nor the virtues of a simple adventure. It shows us one of the greatest stories in Randland's history as a mere trail that the protagonist had to follow (again I will not start talking about those "puzzles" you have to solve). I guess that an RPG-or-something would have had a better story than this mere Unreal child has. Of course there are people who waited for another hack-and-slash game but I wasn't one of them.

The beginning is not a bad one (for you still don't know the rest of the crap that's coming) and there are some funny levels ("Dungeons of the Forsaken") and the movie before the last level *evil grin*. But the rest is certainly something I was not waiting for (the horrible scene just after the credits was the peak). My opinion is that worth keeping is only the second CD that you get `cause the story/movies and music (which is very good BTW) are on that one.

P.S. Does any of you who have played it already know, how the Portal Stone ended up in the WC's fortress's courtyard in the end?

awesome

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: December 23, 2002
Author: Amazon User

best game ever!

It takes a while to become really good though, but it's worth the effort.

sp mode is really good as well, play it in the dark and turn the sound up, you'll have a great time!

enjoy, [SoL]scavenger

Don't...just don't...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: August 05, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I started to read the Wheel of Time series before buying this game. After the first book, I went out and bought this from Gamestop I think and wish I wouldn't have spent the [money] on it. The only good thing I can say are the cinematics, which try to tell a good story. The only problem is that none of it seems to fit right in the WoT world. Whitecloaks using ter`angreal, attacks on the White Tower, ter`angreal being able to lose their charge...

As a game, it's maybe a bit better, until you try to hit the god-forsaken multiplayer section. The bloody multiplayer server setup is so complicated, I have yet to get it to run server and client at the same time. If you want a good story, get another Wheel of Time book. If you want a good game, get Unreal Tournament or NeverWinter Nights. ...

A challange, but still amazing

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: March 19, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game was awesome. The graphics are stunning as are the effects. It is very difficult, but very rewarding once you have beaten it.

Great FPS add a zest of Jordan, mix thoroughly, enjoy.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: May 24, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Great game on its own merit, i did enjoy some of the personifications of the characters from Jordan's novels, though some seemed a bit "blah". The multiplayer part of the game is truly awesome.

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