Dungeon Keeper™ 2

Game seems to be working perfect under windows 7 for me except for the sound. Sound contributes a lot to the atmosphere of the game so it's sad that it doesn't work, but the game is still addicting nonetheless :-).

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Of all the games I have ever played one of my favorites of all time is DK2. I do like 1, but 2 is so much more fun on so many more levels. If you get this game and you like being the evil badass...then this is the game for you.

I loved this game back in the day, and I love it now. It's strategy with a twist. The "RPG" undertone to it is very thin, but it's a perfectly satisfying premise for building dungeons full of dastardly minions. As a rather old game - it is what it is: the graphics won't blow you away, and of course one can imagine ways to improve upon the gameplay (larger maps to build in, perhaps a system to draw in minions of a certain type beyond expanding their room type). But the graphics are still relatively attractive, and create the appropriate atmosphere. I am running the game with only minor issues on my Windows 7 machine. Lenovo x60 tablet with windows 7 home premum (x86). Game "runs fine" except for a video flaw where half the screen is "shadowed out". Switching to "safe mode", however, solves this issue for me, and it runs beautifully from there. I suspect this video issue is a hardware/driver incompatibility problem, and not windows 7 per se. At any rate, it's up and running and more than enjoyable.

Although DK2 is advertised as Vista compatible, it wasn't until I tried it in a vmware XP session that I could attempt to play the game. Without hardware acceleration, the graphics can be hard on the eyes, but this is a well documented and unavoidable problem.