This game had some difficult character creation setups for magical powers & melee, wasn't the greastest turn based combat in gaming, in most cases your underpowered and are killed quickly, magic users have a wide varity of spells but they fail to do anything good on the battlefield, you'll need summon spells and charm spells to use units against each other because combat sucks, most spells fail or your skill isn't high enough to hit & do damage. The game had ok midi music for it time & reminded me alot of the old school Might & Magic series but was nowhere near as good when it comes to gameplay & story. All i used to do was save my game before pick pocketing shop keepers in towns to get money to buy equipment, which really doesn't help you get any advantage over enemies because they all have high skill while your chararcters fumble and fail to complete an action with success no matter how high you set skills at chararcter creation. Combat is painfully slow & boring!
This could of been a great game.. the first game was just awsome it had a top storyline. The second one Beast Within was ok but was more for GAY people considering the Alpha wolf guy is extremely gay and it goes on about Ludwigs love affairs with Women and Men.. This turned me off.. i did finish this game because i loved the First GB but it was a dissapointment... my big beefes about this game is the 2 main actors.. Gabriel and Grace.. gee you could of gotten someone cooler to play GAB since he is suppose to be a cool dude. And grace is just plain ugly GAB was always hitting on her in the first game! I did like this game because it carried over a few things from the first game to tie it in with the second. For a start GAB isn't a FAG his a womanizer .. this game kinda makes him out to be a little gay so it loses 2 stars for stuffing up a cool character.. Plus i like Tim Curry doing Gabs voice in the first game and was annoying not having his voice in the second one! This Version is alot more Serious then the first so if your expecting a good laugh like ya did in the first ya wont get it in the second.
