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Don't buy this for WoT. In fact, don't buy this at all.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 50 / 72
Date: November 30, 1999
Author: Amazon User

First of all, I'm a die-hard WoT fan, and was expecting MUCH more in terms of exploring the world of WoT. This didn't even come close to meeting those expectations.

Related to WoT by name only, this game is nothing more than another in a long line of shooters, with the clumsily implemented ter'angreal weapons. Come on! That's not Wheel of Time! It's Quake!

Wheel of Time STILL has tremendous potential to become an amazing game or series of games, but the implementation of such needs to be left to a software company that will bring something revolutionary to the table, such as Bungie Software.

There's nothing new in this game. If you disagree with me, I suggest trying the demo first. Then unlike me, you'll still have your $50 if you're disappointed.

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.

I have a few choice words about this game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 7
Date: November 18, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I think I got this as a Christmas or birthday present, anyway while they were giving directions, the game bugged and it was telling me to do a standing blast of magic or something, and my character started moving forward and it wouldn't stop. It sounds like my problem was unique, but even without this bug, I wasn't too impressed by this game. First of all, it would be better off following the book's plot, but from what I remember it was mostly campaigns (I didn't get very far, as I tried to return the gift only to have the people at Walmart say, "we're sorry but we don't return PC games"). I also don't remember having normal attacks, it was all ranged stuff, and combat system was a bit crummy. First-person mode is totally inapropriate for a story game, third person [like FFVII] would have been far more fitting.

Beware

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: May 15, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I was enjoying the game, but halfway through, it would "windows error" and not proceed to the next level. After much time with GT tech support, the best they could recommend was reloading the game and starting from scratch. Buyer beware.

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.

Garbage, at least single-player

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: May 01, 2000
Author: Amazon User

The visuals are fair, usually crude but occasionally inspired.

The gameplay is awful. A game with a theme like this should be about exploring (both levels and weapons), but the level design makes it impossible to explore, mostly due to the placement of enemies that you absolutely have to outrun. And you can't explore the weapons system because you never have the opportunity to try things out except during life-and-death struggles (although this may or may not have been a problem for people familiar with the novels, which I haven't read -- maybe the novels explain the weapons? ). The weapons system, with far too many weapons to use easily, is simply too clumsy to use.

The game should have been crafted into a tense, suspenseful, awe-inspiring adventure, like a sort of swords-and-sorcery Half-Life. Instead, it's a repetitive bore in which the designers committed a basic flaw of game level design: when it gets too dull, throw in an extremely-difficult-to-beat creature. That may be challenging, but it's not engaging, and since it wasn't engaging, I got bored and quit after a couple levels.

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.

What a piece of garbage.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 8
Date: January 21, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game utterly failed in the market for good reason. The graphics and sound are fine, but the gameplay completely sucks. Basically, there are three aspects of it that monopolize the entire Wheel of Time gaming experience:

1) Trying to select the right spell you want, by spinning your mousewheel or tapping a key over and over like a moron, usually while in combat and under fire. The game has 39 spells btw. Let me type that again: 39. You do the math on how much fun this is.

2) A maze/movement type puzzle around every corner. EVERY. CORNER. Take a step, hit a wall and try to figure out what inane "puzzle" the game designers had in mind for you to advance another few feet. Take another step, repeat. And repeat. And repeat. And repeat. The entire game is like this.

3) Dying. Your character is very weak, your strong weapons injure you about 80% of the time, and the enemies are very strong, both to kill and in their attacks. You will die. And die. And die. And die. In between every fun map puzzle, you can look forward to dying one or two times, sometimes several. Your save/load fingers will at least get a workout, if your shooter skillz don't.

I got this for a just a few bucks, and I feel cheated, more for my time and frustration levels trying to "play" it then anything else. I feel sorry for anyone who bought it when it first came out, expecting a good gaming experience to go with the WOT license. My two cents: this game is complete crap. Don't even waste the wear on your hard drive installing it, let alone any money buying it or time playing it.

A Nice Try, But No Dice

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 8 / 18
Date: November 11, 2003
Author: Amazon User

"Wheel of Time" by Atari is based off of Robert Jordan's ongoing (interminable) series by the same name. It is a FPS with both Single Player and Multiplayer modes.

As far as its actual graphics goes, they are pretty good for the time . Sound, also, was done reasonably well.

However, gameplay was horrible. While the missions themselves did make some vague amount of sense, the devil is in the details, and this is just one of the places the game failed. There were many instances where I was able to trick the computerized enemies (MOBs) into standing in places where I could hit it at my leisure and it would just stand there and take it. I also was able to use certain spells through walls when it made no sense for it to do so.

Another problem was the control system. Movement worked fine, and I never found myself stuck anywhere. But the selection of items (all "spells" in the game are derived from items which you collect and in some cases use up) for use, particularly in combat, is problematic to say the least.

The plot is in many cases highly dubious if one knows much about the series it is based from. In fact, it borders on absurd. Also, I found the ending to be highly anti-climatic, to say the least.

In all, this is a game that tried hard to be something great, but fell far short. Like the author of the series, it appears that SquareSoft bit off more than they could chew.

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. ...

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