Forgotten Realms: Demon Stone

Demon Stone is average. I like hack and slash games from time to time, so it can be a fun diversion for a while, but it really isn't anything you haven't seen before, especially if you've played The Two Towers or The Return of the King released a few years back. The most annoying thing about the game was the inability to skip FMV sequences, so if you died you had to sit through the same video over and over. If this has been patched then it should get a 4 rather than a 3, but how it stands it is nothing really special.

The gameplay is great, the characters are fun, the graphics are nice, the story is reasonably entertaining. What breaks this game for me is the checkpoint system. If a game requires you to redo things over and over and watch the same cutscenes over and over, all it does is just destroy any kind of fun it has to over. You can only save between levels. Within levels, there is checkpoints which are sparsely placed and thus require you do fight through the same sequences again and again. Also, all checkpoints are placed before cutscenes so you end up watching the same sequences over and over.

This is a fun button masher set in D&D's Forgotten Realms. I really enjoyed the cinematic feel to the game, and teh ability to switch between characters as the challenges demanded it is a great feature. As a role player and a long time fan of D&D, I enjoy playing this game when I want a little action.

This game is horrible. Don't waste your time or money. If you really want to play this then just find the worst fantasy movie that you can and watch it while you left click your mouse as fast as you can.

The best thing about this game for me is the combat and levels, which can be fun from time to time. But almost everything else has an average-ish "B" feeling. One of the most geeky and immersion-breaking details about this game is that the party members refer to each other by class name ("rogue", "warrior" etc...) It's like they aren't really the characters, but a bunch of people LARPing. :D This game looks better in screenshots than it really is. A weak console port as it is, the whole game has a pretty awful "low resolution" presentation all around. The characters look alright, but the menus and everything else, argh. Demon Stone really wouldn't have to be D&D in my opinion. "Feats" are just special abilities like any other game. The fact that all these general ideas and abilities are called Feats kinda makes them seem pretentious because it is a very straightforward hack'n'slash experience, without the usual D&D depth. For the price, it's not bad, but if you have other options, I really see no point in playing this game unless you absolutely want a FR/D&D environment.