Forgotten Realms: Demon Stone

Patrick Steward narrates the game in the english Version! This game has one of the most enganging openings of any game I've every played, it sucks you right in, and lever lets you go again. Difficulty is spot on between too hard and too easy. Even the grafics hold up somewaht decently. The biggest strength of this game is its excellent pacing. It's exactly the right length for the gameplay it has to offer, and there is just enough quite well written Story and Dialog in between the action to always keep you motivated. I can only recomend Demon Stone, this game has no mayor flaw, but a lot of strenghts. It's that one action game that has been missing from you life so far.

Giving it one extra star because it was my fault for being suckered into buying it the moment I saw it in the store. Story by Salvatore, Forgotten Realms...setting was nice but hardly any game at all. A complete cash grab by Atari, like those cookie cutter games from blockbuster movies that kept popping up back them. Atari was all about branding, they bought the brand from the corpse of the original Atari and they managed to get a license of D&D/FR from Wizards of the Coast... God damnit why couldn't they have some ambition.

Demon Stone is a hack-and-slash beat-em-up, and I quite like the system. It uses the same engine as the Lord of the Rings beat-em-ups, except this time with 3 D&D heroes fighting slaad, githyanki. and yuan-ti. Each hero has special abilities and roles to fill. The wizard is the sniper, the rogue is the insta-kill assassin, and the fighter is the tank that gets in the middle of all of it. You can switch between them at any time. The fact that all three characters play a bit differently adds a lot to the strategy. The hero AI generally does a good job, but they are slower to act than when you control them. This gives you incentive to switch to the role that's needed most at the time. There's a lot of action happening on the screen all at once. Sometimes you're fighting a couple baddies, other times there are entire throngs on the screen. The levels are often set pieces with a lot of chaos going on in the background. It makes you feel like part of something epic. If you're wondering if it stays true to the D&D license, it half does. There's no D20 rolling, no "miss" chances, no attacks of opportunity, or pretty much anything from the books. It's best to just let that go, considering the type of game it is. The story seems legit, and IMO is pretty good for D&D. I recommend Demon Stone to beat-em-up hack-and-slash fans, and to D&D fans with an open mind.

Not in the mechanics of D&D but set in the lore with a fun beat'em up style gameply similar to the LoTR games that came out with the movies.

Don't bother with this game. Poor controls and a less than interesting combat and character progression make this game among the worst I've played.