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A must-have, and a proud entrant into our Hall of Belated Fame. If you are a fan of Edgar Allen Poe, you'll tremendously enjoy this CD-ROM if you're not, this is one CD that will spark your interest in his works. With its fantastic game world, its lively history and its active fan community, The Dark Eye has developed. First released in 1984, the fantasy role-playing game was one of the first representatives of this genre in German-speaking countries. As if that's not creepy enough, the game also uses as a framing device an original story that is a very intriguing pastiche of Poe mythos.Gameplay involves clicking on various objects and people to trigger events to advance the story.ĭespite this limited click-and-watch, the game's haunting atmosphere and style (with unique claymation actors) make it a must-have for horror fans. The Dark Eye (TDE) is the most important and popular product line in the wide range of Ulisses games. The game uses three classic Poe stories: "The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Cask of Amantillado," and "Berenice." You go through each story twice - first as the victim, and again as the perpetrator. Intensive tactical combat and intriguing quests, embedded in a wonderfully detailed 3D graphic presentation — these are the cornerstones of the fantasy epic.One of the rare games based on literature that "get it" right, The Dark Eyeis not so much a "game" as an electronic novel in the same vein as Portal : it is a melange of Edgar Allen Poe's most famous stories, changing the characters' names to fit an overarching plot while preserving the contents. But the essential qualities and the depth of the original rules have not been compromised.

The developers have optimized the rulebook specially for the PC realization in order to make the game more accessible. Drakensang is the first PC game for over 10 years to be based on Germany's most successful and popular role-play system.ĭrakensang builds on the pen & paper rules as applied in version 4.0. Drakensang is a third-person party-based RPG based on the pen & paper role-play rules of The Dark Eye.