Dungeon Keeper is a game that represents an era of video-games, and it might be the finest of its type! This game gets a 100% recommendation if you enjoy: 1. Age of Empires (Any of them!) 2. Any of Bullfrog's other games, even Dungeon Keeper 2. 3. If you played War for the Overworld before playing this game, somehow. Or if you enjoy the idea of RTS gameplay, and want to get in to the genre. It's often put on sale, so if you don't want to play right away, then wait for one of those. Get it for just over a pound. Enough about that, let's talk about the game! This is the DOS version of it, other reviews will tell you how to make it high quality. The game is about building and maintaining a dungeon, and absolutely messing up the happy and joyful land. There are 20 main levels, 6 bonus levels and 15 Deeper Dungeons levels. Discounting the 5 "Tutorial" Levels, that leaves you with 36 fun levels that get gradually harder, especially Deeper Dungeons. Not like the tutorial levels are pushovers. The last 2 will certainly put a first time player on edge. Controls are simple. 90% of the game is the mouse, with plenty of hotkeys. I recommend rebinding them after you play the tutorials. The remaining 10% is rotating the camera and taking control of your lowly minions. Something that is simply fun to do now, but is impressive considering this game was made in 1997! Make sure to invert the camera though. Default is pulling the mouse down to look up. The tone of this game is part of why it aged so well. The narration and in game helper voice acting is done amazingly by Richard Ridings (Who also voices Daddy Pig from Peppa Pig). There's the soundtrack, which sounds heavy, like it really should. The humour never distracts from the dark tone. It's really hard to get the balance of horror elements and humour, but Dungeon Keeper has the golden ratio. I'm running out of space, so I need to wrap this up. I'd recommend the Nerd³ videos about this game, videos say more than I can here.
