like MoM, it is flawed, not well balanced, and can be frustrating--yet is also very rewarding, great replayability, interesting/challenging, and just fun. Nothing else really like it that i have seen. some mods really expand gameplay further.
I found this brilliant, interesting, and a lot of fun. Helped because i enjoyed the book as a kid, but interesting otherwise as well. Balance was not great, it was sometimes hard to figure out what to do, I sometimes ran out of time, and the occasional and often optional fighting was flawed, but i found the exploration and multiple different ways to explore, accomplish goals, balance various health/food/money/time issues surprisingly fun. I found the quotes interesting to get the British perspective on India at the time, but my biggest issue is that they don't have any Indian perspectives; the people are fairly sterotypical and the whole thing is basically seen through British eyes--this is like the book, but really? If they mixed it with authentic Indian viewpoints on the occupation from the time, it would have been 5 stars for me.
Jeff Vogel is a legend in the indie community. He has been making indie RPG's since the early 1800's or so. This is by no means his best, but is a solid, fun game (RPG with some management added on) if you can get past the non-existent graphics and sound. P.S. To get it to work, the guaranteed way is to select the highest graphics setting you can show and then run it in a window.
DS is OK, DS2 better. But U5: Lazarus and U6 Project are AMAZING mods that recreate and significantly improve some of the most amazing but way too old games into an at least acceptably modernish way. You can spend hundreds of hours on these games without regretting it, and both are free if you own DS. Buy it, try out those amazing mods!!!
I paid $150 to get these six games and never regretted a penny. Awesome games, as long as you are willing to use a bit of imagination with graphics, etc.
I paid $25 for EVERY ONE of these games and didn't regret a single one. Getting ALL of them for <$20 is a steal. Don't miss some of the best old-style RPG's available! (and check out the exile/avernum series too!
originally unbelievably buggy. fan patches now fix it. one very disturbing and deeply unsatisfactory quest (half-ogres,) and unbalanced weaponry that is my only real negative on what is an incredible game.
