Absurdly-Spacious Sewer: The first game begins in Waterdeep's sewers.Absurdly High Level Cap: The third game lets your characters reach a maximum of level 20, but you will reach the end of the game around level 13-15 at most, even after defeating every non-respawning enemy.'80s Hair: The drow named Shindia Darkeyes has a frizzy head of hair.The trilogy is available on GOG.com as Forgotten Realms: The Archive Collection OneĮye of the Beholder provides examples of: Note that this remake diverges quite a lot from the original game, both in game mechanics and in that it adds sub-boss enemies. It was also ported to Mega CD, with music composed by Yuzo Koshiro. It was not made by the original developers, and is generally considered a massive disappointment.Ī spiritual successor, Lands of Lore, was created by Westwood in lieu of a third Eye of the Beholder after the split with SSI over creative differences.Ī remake of the first game was released for the Super Nintendo, and later for the Game Boy Advance. The third game ( Assault on Myth Drannor) sends the player into the ruined city of Myth Drannor. ![]() It offers more roleplaying content, and a more proper ending. The second ( The Legend of Darkmoon), generally thought to be the best of the series, involves the party checking out an ancient temple for Khelben "Blackstaff" Arunsun. It had an Absurdly-Spacious Sewer, not just one but two ruins of lost civilizations beneath Waterdeep, and an infamous ending, where the player was treated a window of text before dumping them back to DOS (the Amiga version, however, added a proper ending cutscene). The first game has them hired by the lords of Waterdeep to investigate an evil residing under the city. The games use a simplified version of the rules for Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd edition, in the Forgotten Realms campaign setting.Īll games are first-person, and feature an adventure party, between four to six members, going on quests and fighting evil. (Note: Westwood had nothing to do with it.Eye of the Beholder is a trilogy of RPGs developed in the early nineties, the first two by Westwood Studios that would later be known from games such as Command & Conquer, and the third one by Strategic Simulations Inc., that also published all three games. ![]() She later called the game "dreary" with a "letdown" of an ending, and "only for the hard-core EOB player. What started as a series with great promise has, alas, ended on a mediocre note". just doesn't stack up against the previous two games. Scorpia concluded that " Assault on Myth Drannor is a disappointment. She said that the graphics were inferior to the previous games', that "aurally, the game is a nightmare", and that the "big fight at the end is a letdown". Unfortunately, for several reasons, that isn't the case". Computer Gaming World 's Scorpia wrote that since the game "is the closeout of the EOB series, one would expect it to be on the spectacular side. GameSpy commented that " Eye of the Beholder III was a classic example of a company churning out a quick sequel to a good game and simply not giving it the love and care it really deserves". The Eye of the Beholder series overall, including the game's two predecessors, reached combined global sales above 350,000 units by 1996. SSI sold 50,664 copies of Eye of the Beholder III. Both games share the same enemy sprites, graphics, and sound effects. The game uses the AESOP engine which later used in Dungeon Hack. Westwood had been acquired by Virgin Interactive in 1992 and they created the Lands of Lore series instead. ![]() The explorable areas include the forest around the city, the mausoleum, and finally the city ruins including a mage guild and a temple.ĭespite employing an updated version of the engine, interesting and oft-unique NPC selection and welcome gameplay tweaks such as an 'All Attack' button and the ability to use polearms from second rank, it was not well received.Įye of the Beholder III: Assault on Myth Drannor was not developed by Westwood, the developer of Eye of the Beholder and The Legend of Darkmoon, but rather in-house by the publisher SSI. After the heroes accept the quest, the mysterious man teleports the heroes just outside Myth Drannor. The man then tells the heroes that they need to save Myth Drannor by getting an ancient artifact from the Lich known as the Codex. After that, a mysterious man enters the tavern and asks the heroes to save the ruined city, Myth Drannor, which is ruled by a Lich named Acwellan. Eye of the Beholder III: Assault on Myth Drannor is a 1993 role-playing video game and the sequel to Eye of the Beholder and Eye of the Beholder II: The Legend of Darkmoon.Īfter defeating Dran the heroes tell the patrons of a local tavern about their success over Dran Draggore and how it saved the town.
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