Dungeon Keeper is an RTS (although for some reason Bullfrog started it as an RPG, then changed of mind) renowned for its uniqueness. First of all, here you aren't fighting for the cause of justice and goodness but on the contrary, you're the Evil Dungeon Keeper. Your role is to avoid heroes to conquer your dungeon while you manage all the economics within, breed new and terrifying creatures and submerge the land in horror an chaos. To do that, you're presented with a somewhat simple mechanic: you must dig up for gold, with that gold you have to build facilites, and those facilities will create more minions for your evil army. So, you have to keep an eye on rival Dungeon Keepers while maintaining invader heroes at bay all while you must control your own followers. Dungeon Keeper has plenty of what made Bullfrog some of the best game studios of all history. It is quite a refresh in the concept of RTS, well balanced gameplay, has a great atmosphere and above all: it's terribly fun. DK has also some of the best details you can imagine of: you can possess a creature and "be" it (for example you can be a Digger and infiltrate on enemy dungeons to reveal their secrets, or posses a powerful Dragon and run amok on the foes!), you can seduce Heroes and have them fight for your cause, the last King of the Land is a quite entertaining surprise and so on. On the techincals, Dungeon Keeper has fairly good 3D graphics that run smoothly then and now, quite good animations and a soundtrack quite combined with the general atmosphere of the game although very repetitive. The Advisor, as in every Bullfrog strategy based game, makes quite ironic remarks about you and your enemies performance. Dungeon Keeper had a sequel, Dungeon Keeper 2, which exploited in the concept without the magic of the first part although it is still a good strategy game. The original game came with a big photo of the development team (Horny the Horned Reaper included), a wallpaper of the game's map and some other assorted stuff apart from the main theme and a trailer. I almost forgot, Dungeon Keeper got an expansion pack named The Deeper Dungeons which was of interest only for the hardore players of the game. It also enjoyed a healthy online community which modded the game thoroughly. All in all, a great GOG acquisiton. I don't know whay you're going to do, I'm getting mine right now!
