Dynamix wasn't the only company to take their work on a particular license and create something brand new out of it...
Today on Ancient DOS Games, Gemini's taking a look at Lands of Lore: The Throne of Chaos, a first-person dungeon crawl developed by Westwood Studios, following in the wake of their work on the Eye of the Beholder series, and published through Virgin Games in 1993.
The game takes a LOT of inspiration from Westwood's previous work on the Eye of the Beholder games, but without the D&D license, they had to come up with their own races and monsters and stats and everything to provide their own take on how dungeon crawls could work. The result is better than Eye of the Beholder in some ways, such as by streamlining and simplifying the experience, but worse in others, such as by making the game far more grindy.
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Additional Information and Corrections:
* Here's a link to the page on GOG where you can purchase this game from, along with its sequel: [ Ссылка ]
* This review may've come across a little more negatively than I intended. Really, so long as you don't mind the incredible amount of grinding you're forced to do for virtually no reward, there's a decent game here.
* I'm not 100% certain if the Thomgog are rock-creatures or not; at least for as far as I got they never actually say what they're made of and the in-game graphics make it hard to tell. Given that the Huline have fur and the Dracoids have scales, it kinda makes sense that the Thomgog would be rocky.
* I thought for sure I tried right-clicking through the inventory and only having it move one item at a time, but I've since tested this again and right clicks scroll nine items at a time so... yeah, you can ignore my comment about the inventory being annoying to navigate. :P
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