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Pool of Radiance Review

Discussion in 'Game/SP News & Comments' started by NewsPro, Oct 31, 2001.

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    (Originally posted by Mollusken)

    GameOver has posted a review of Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor. An overall rating of 55% is given, on a game we should definitely avoid.

    Sometimes a game becomes known for all the wrong reasons. When Stormfront Studios created Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor, they probably had high hopes that it would bring back fond memories of the gold-box role-playing games (RPG’s) of the late 80’s and early 90’s (including the original Pool of Radiance), if not challenge BioWare for supremacy of today’s RPG’s. But now that the game has been out for a while, it’s much more likely that Pool of Radiance will be remembered for two things: that it shipped with an uninstall bug that could delete system registry files, and that people discovered the bug (and thus were already uninstalling the game) well within a week of its release. There’s a reason why people were uninstalling the game: it’s bad, and its myriad problems are obvious right from the word go...

    ...But long fights aren’t necessarily bad -- unless the game focuses on combat and dishes out hundreds upon hundreds of random or meaningless encounters, like Pool of Radiance does. Then long fights just drag the game down into a morass of slowness, where you’re thrilled to explore an area and find empty rooms rather than creatures waiting for you. Plus, there are only about 10 types of creatures in the game (with variations on each), so not only do you have to fight long, boring battles, you have to fight long, boring battles against the same things over and over! Oh, fun, fun, fun...


    Head over to GameOver for the rest.
     
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