" Despite this, The One expresses that Eye of the Beholder is on par with Dungeon Master and Chaos Strikes Back, but states that Eye of the Beholder is still "an essential purchase for followers of the AD&D series". The gameplay works wonderfully, conjuring up both the spirit and the atmosphere that you get from. Combat is also handled extremely well, the spells and 'ranged weapons' rules are all faithful to the original game. When two games look this similar, even their programmers would have trouble telling them apart." The One praises Eye of the Beholder's gameplay, stating that "in contrast to previous AD&D titles, there's more emphasis on puzzle-solving than combat – a refreshing change. The One gave the Amiga version of Eye of the Beholder an overall score of 92%, heavily comparing it to Dungeon Master, stating that "Comparisons to the classic – Dungeon Master – are inevitable. In 1993 Scorpia called the game "an impressive first effort that bodes well for the future". Other areas that needed work included the combat, plot, and NPC interaction nonetheless, she was hopeful that with such improvements "the Legend series will become one of the leaders in the CRPG field". Although also praising the graphics and audio, stating that they "really give you the feeling of being in an actual dungeon", she criticized the awkward spell user interface and the "outrageous" abrupt ending. Scorpia, another reviewer for the magazine, was less positive. The magazine stated that the game's VGA graphics and sound card audio finally gave IBM PC owners a Dungeon Master-like game. Dennis Owens of Computer Gaming World called it "a stunning, brilliantly graphic and agonizingly tricky" 3-D CRPG. It was #1 on the Software Publishers Association's list of top MS-DOS games for April 1991, the last SSI D&D game to reach the rank. The third game, however, was not developed by Westwood, which had been acquired by Virgin Interactive in 1992 and created the Lands of Lore series instead.Įye of the Beholder was reviewed in 1991 in Dragon #171 by Hartley, Patricia, and Kirk Lesser in "The Role of Computers" column, who gave it 5 out of 5 stars. The game has two sequels, Eye of the Beholder II: The Legend of Darkmoon, also released in 1991, and Eye of the Beholder III: Assault on Myth Drannor, released in 1993. In 2002, an adaptation of the same name was developed by Pronto Games for the Game Boy Advance. A port to the Atari Lynx handheld was developed by NuFX in 1993, but was not released. The Sega CD version features a soundtrack composed by Yuzo Koshiro and Motohiro Kawashima. in 1991, for the MS-DOS operating system and later ported to the Amiga, the Sega CD and the SNES. It was published by Strategic Simulations, Inc. Eye of the Beholder is a role-playing video game for personal computers and video game consoles developed by Westwood Associates.
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