Dungeon Keeper™ 2

This is one of my favorite games of all-time, so it took roughly 4 seconds for me to add it to my collection. I've tried running DK2 before and the experience has been somewhat lacking. Buggy, audio disappearing, crashes. GOGs port is somewhat more stable, but still not quite good. Admittedly DK2 in it's original state is also somewhat tempestuous but still... For me, it will not run with hardware accelerated graphics. Which is fine, because the software mode looks quite good and runs fine. But it randomly crashes when I press escape, which is frustrating to say the least.

I love Dungeon Keeper 1 and have always regretted that I no longer could play it's sequal. Though not as great as it's predecessor it was fun to play. So when GOG put it into their catalogue I almost immediately bought it. It installed just fine, it's fun to play... Yet it crashes at random on Vista. Clicking on the tab for mission info, a cutscene loading, soundclips loading or just zooming in/out can trigger these crashes it seems. So I have mixed feelings about this GOG release: it's an awesome game to be sure, but the random crashing drops the score like nobody's business.

Dungeon Keeper was without a doubt, one of my favorite games, and despite its showing its teeth a bit, it's still a fantastically fun title that has aged more gracefully than I thought it would, especially with KeeperFX pulling it up. So naturally I was excited for Dungeon Keeper 2, there was a lot of things I was expecting to be improved, a lot of features that were being added that excited me, even though the graphics were a tad too goofy, bright, and characterless for me to really get into from the sparse previews I saw. Then it was released, and from the outset, Dungeon Keeper 2 disappointed me. For one thing, these levels are much more restrained than DK1's, they tend to be smaller, have less interesting architecture to them, and give you less freedom to layout your dungeon as you please. The game was profoundly buggy, poorly optimized, and went too heavy on the cartoonishness and excised much of the atmosphere that made the original DK1 such an immersive and unique experience. Even now, trying to give it a second chance (immediately after a reply of DK1) there's so much about its design that's just weak, the over emphasis on approaching missions just the right way, making the levels more about seemingly figuring out their "puzzle" rather than more conventionally battling an opponent using the game's mechanics to your best knowledge, and a number of other things, like the unappealing block 3D graphics, which, while professionally done, are utterly mediocre when it comes to the quality of their design aesthetic. Possessing your creatures is a constant necessity to destroy simple traps and move through the levels, and it's annoying, there's not enough Keeper vs. Keeper missions (easily the most fun part of DK1) and for the most part, the pathfinding is incredibly poor and the game is still very buggy. It works, it's decently fun, it's okay, it still does right a lot of what DK1 did right, but not a fraction as well. A decidedly lukewarm product.

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I absolutely loved this game back in the day and spent hours crafting the perfect dungeon. It may be a little dated now, but still fun. Hopefully the bugs can be worked out.