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Planescape: Torment

Planescape: Torment

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Exellent! Awsome! AMAZING!
Review: I bought PLANESCAPE: TORMENT yesterday and I knew I would like it. It is very much like Microsoft's "Age Of Empires" and Westwood's "Command & Conquer" but twice as good

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Another universe... err... Multiverse!
Review: I finished this wonderful game yesterday, and now... now I sunk in a deep crisis! No game looks the same after you play Torment. This is by far the best adventure game I ever played (I'm a fun of the Planescape setting) and I'm afraid that no sequel has been planned... yet... If you enjoyed Baldur's Gate BUY IT NOW! If you didn't BUY IT ANYWAY! The money I paid this wonderful game were the best spent in videogames in my whole life... P.S. Excuse my poor English, I'm italian...

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: You must buy this game
Review: If you are at all interested in RPG games on the computer, then you must own this game.

The storyline is brilliant, the character development is stunning, the music and ambient sounds are breathtaking, and the spell effects are simply outstanding.

This game is so good, I am playing it for the 3rd time.

Trust me, you will NOT be disappointed with this game. You will even want to buy the novelization after you finish playing!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Awesome game, worthy of the title Planescape
Review: I found this to be an outstanding game. When I first saw the game I thought, oh no thier putting Dungeons and Dragons on the computer its doomed. But my friend bought the game and i must say i was impressed. I recommend this game to anyone fond of AD&D< or RPG/strategy.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Another great game!
Review: This is another great game from Interplay and it is very enjoyable to play (it's alot like Baldur's Gate to me) the only thing is it's another multi CD-Rom game so you have to change discs in the middle of the game. I think they should release a DVD version of this game also like they did with Baldur's Gate. Overall I would say it's definately worth the money. My only beef is it doesn't support multi-player which is what all good role playing games should do.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Best, deepest, most meaningful game ever
Review: Torment is the best computer game I have ever played. It feels wrong to call this 'just a game'. Computer games will become an important new art form in the coming century, and Torment gives us a delicious foretaste of what is to come.

Moral choices abound. The game takes note of what you say and do, and rates your morality and alignment accordingly. The game itself changes depending on how you play it: each action and choice closes some doors and opens others. Consider a point in the dialog where you are offered these choices. (1) Vow: "Tell me and I will not harm you" -- (2) Bluff: "Tell me or I'll break your neck" -- (3) Threat: "Tell me or I'll break your neck" -- (4) "Please tell me". This illustrates the sort of choice that gives expression to your moral character.

You feel like an actor in a play -- but one who can choose his own script. This brings you very close to your game character. When it was revealed that a past incarnation of my character had committed some evil, I personally felt heartbroken about it. This sort of immersion-into-character is not possible in a conventional novel.

The story is compelling and meaningful. It is supported by excellent writing. Some of the key dramatic scenes are still going through my head two months after completing the game. It is an ongoing source of delight to discuss and discover new interpretations of the story and characters.

The characters are deep and complex, and funny. You get the feeling more than in other games that they have their own agendas. Eventually some of their secrets are revealed and -- best of all -- you yourself, in the game, are the one who discovers those secrets.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Gabriel Knight3
Review: If you want a game with a excellent story plot with lots of twists and turns, This is is. But also be aware the puzzles and the solving of this game are about impossible without a hint book. This has to be the hardest game I have ever tried to play. I have played both G.K. 1 and 2, and they were a cake walk compared to this. But as I said the story plot is very intersting. I recommend this game if you don't mind getting the book too.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: One Awsome Game
Review: I purchased this resently purchsed this magnificent game and i would wholeheartledly recommend it to anyone who enjoys computer games. This game incorporates magnificent graphics, a facinating and very much alive universe, and an in depth story line that puts Baldur's Gate to shame. I feel that anybody, wheather they love RPGs or those that dont, would enjoy this newest masterpiece from the people at black isle.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A great but disturbing RPG
Review: This game is one of the best RPGs I've ever played. It ranks with Fallout 2, Bard's Tale, and Baldur's Gate as the best RPG ever created. But, be warned, this is not for children. Dead bodies that have been cut open for disection are common in the first part of the game, piles of body parts are found in another area, and the whole plot of the game is very mature. I would not recomend this game to anyone younger than 17.

Like any true RPG, the game is about choices, and in this game you face real choices nearly every 5 minutes, lie or tell the truth? Help someone or let them suffer their misfortune? You learn things about your own "character", some which reflect badly on you. You can try and make amends, or brazen it out. Other characters you meet react to you based in part on your actions and choices earlier in the game. Only the games Fallout and Fallout 2 have previously had this level of gameplay.

The characters that can join you are (mostly) wonderful. Dakkon, Anya, Falls from Grace, Nordom are all great companions with their own stories and (sometimes) with dialog between them. The funniest dialog occurs between Nordom and Falls from Grace (it sure seems like Nordom has a thing for the Succubus). For me, at least, Morte (the floating skull) didn't work as a character. It turns out that Morte knows just about everything you are trying to find out during the game. His reasons for not telling you things were not convincing.

Other things: combat is fun, but can go too quickly if you leave it on the default mode. Spell effects were kind of "over the top". Halting the game so they could play a cut-scene spells was iffy IMHO. I understand the designer's point, that magic should be "spectacular" but stil...

Bottom line: I was very concerned before the game was shipped that it would be too wierd to be enjoyable. It was bizzare but it was also facinating. Brilliant game design married to a deeply thoughtful plot puts this game into the super-star list of "games you must play".

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Best game I ever played
Review: In addition to being a superb CRPG, this game is very different than other games - simply because the story is such a good story. If this was a book, I would say it is awesome - how many computer games do you know you could say that for?


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