The Temple of Elemental Evil

Very faithful DnD adaptation, but the controls are uniintuitive and will fight you a lot of the time.

I'm so addicted to this game. A good ol classic game, just don't forget before you play install the CO8 first.

Out of the box this thing is a step into my DnD days, single player adventure that runs like the best of strategies. Start simple, start smart and move forward to the meat of the game, the game play.

Graphics are nice and inviting but unfortunately the overall experience is time consuming and frustrating. UI is not very helpful when doing choices; Wizard spells can be only used N times a day; can't define who is the main party socialiser and many small issues here and there are killing the fun. There is a lot of missing taking place in combat, making fights longer and hard It takes time, if you want to give it a go anyways. Default characters have dull voices so you main want to install the main mod and create your party from scratch. The mod on OSX requires to install JRE 1.7 inside Wine, then the mod, then setup Wine to run the mod "front-end" UI instead of the main app. Know that he mod made the game less stable for me though.

ToEE is by no means a bad game, but with very little story or character interaction. It is, in short, to Baldurs Gate what Fallout Tactics is to Fallout 1&2. A lot of (tactical) killing, but that's about it. I'd recommend skipping it and going for BG, BG2, Planescape:Torment & Arcanum first. Or Fallout 1&2, which are despite their postapocalyptic wasteland setting more like BG then ToEE. If you prefer story, the occasional alternative solution without killing, and interesting henchmen, that is.