The Temple of Elemental Evil Review at GamesFirst

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Games First have reviewed The Temple of Elemental Evil and given it an overall score of 4/5, despite quite a large number of problems with the game. Here's a clip:

In most elements of the gameplay, Elemental Evil covers up the complexity of its roots rather well. Arrows fly by their targets with a hit or miss, battleaxes fall without a single die roll being evident. This doesn’t hold true for character creation, and rightfully so. In a game such as this, creating and developing your character is half the fun. Killing the monster isn’t fun, getting that really big and expensive weapon so you can play with the monster like a cat does a mouse, then and obliterating the monster – that’s fun. In order to customize your character, you have to go through the options of choosing his alignment, his skills, his class, and race. Unfortunately, that means that if you’re unfamiliar with the D&D universe, the first half hour of so of the game, before any story takes place, before any fighting, you’ll enjoy it hunched over the starting pages of the manual, reading about every option on the list. So the slow part, the tedious part, the part that will have the average, non-RPG gamer out there on the fence giving up and walking away, hits you right up front. Once you get passed that, however, Elemental Evil lays out a stunning graphic adventure for you.

Read the full review at GamesFirst.