Dungeon Keeper™ 2

The good part + You can group minions easier + You can select tiles to dig and to build on easier The bad part - Comic-like graphics that miss out on the dark tone of the first part, models look clunky and worse than the pixelstuff of part one - Hotkey-layout and bindings are a backstep, missing out important functions that you could even bind in the first part. E.g. still no no hotkeys for spells (speed or possession) or not even the (often needed) functions (selling mode, query mode). - UI controls: E.g.There is no way to tab through the panels. In part 1 you could at least least jump to the expected panel with 1-5. Here you cant, quess why? Cause 1-5 is reserved for creature abilities. That was also true in part one, but there the hotkeys simply changed depending if you were in keeper-mode or possession-mode. Incomprehensible why such a basic thing got removed. - Documentation: Not the only part being removed, also the information panel for creatures is swapped out. While you could see the stats of different creatures in part one to estimate what they are good for, even when those stats were wrongly described, the second part does not offer such a thing. You can upgrade Spells. What for? The tooltip does not tell. - Watered down game mechanics: But for what do you need documentation when you take out the interesting mechanics anyway? Room efficiency is basically gone - you can build like a moron. There is no gain of walling the rooms in, having certain shapes of them or making sure that tiny imps don't run through the library as the studying warlock rewarded such behavior with fireballs. Instead of deepening such mechanics, they removed them. This is just an excerp of what is wrong with UI, controls or mechanics, ignoring the bad level building and missing difficulty all along. This sequel is the epitome of the still present trend to make games accessible for a big audience instead of teaching your it to learn and appreciate your game.

I disagree with some of the reviewers on here. I think DK2 was MUCH better than the first game. To this day it remains in my top 5 games ever played. I'm not going to waffle on about it, but only say that you MUST OWN THIS GAME!!!

Great game, but some fine tuning and bug/performance issues need to be fixed!

Thank you soo much GOG, i have been trying to get a version of dk2 running on my win7 system, using compatibility tools, vmwares, and what not, nothing worked! Unfortunately this version sometimes crashes when it's being played on 1024x768. on 800x600 it works perfectly! *Thumbsup*

So glad its here on gog! My old copy lost long ago. This game is funny, has great stratagey and very different. Its both easy to play and control your monsters, great detail and very good AI system. Just download it! If you never played it you dont know what your missing!