All of our PC turn-based role playing games were once missing something. They had that D&D feel, but were missing the excitement, adventure, and spontaneous nature of having a dungeon master and a bag of dice. Through The Temple of Elemental Evil, the master is back in full force. From riveting adventures, detailed graphics and user-friendly controls, The Temple of Elemental Evil is a must for both the D&D novice or expert.
The Temple of Elemental Evil combines the chaos of choose your own adventure, and PC role playing games, all while following classic D&D gameplay leading to awesome and adventuresome play. We being our adventures in the town of Hommlet, but how you design your party decides the rest of our story. Through your first adventures in the Moat House, your battles at Deklo Grove, to your struggles at Imesyd's Run, the adventure of Elemental Evil rarely lets up.
Choose between the traditional D&D classifications to form your party. Elemental Evil's application of the new 3.5 D&D rules, which add new feats, skills, class and racial enhancements speedup gameplay and enjoyability. And, don't forget to recruit additional henchmen along the way. For most D&D games, the play is rarely tedious or elementary.
What makes The Temple of Elemental Evil run so smoothly is the combination of real-time and turn-based gameplay. As in most role-playing PC games, the turn-based style can be tiresome to use in battles. With Elemental Evil, the turn-based and real-time gameplay runs smoothly together so that the adventure never lets up. The radial controls of your characters during battle make turn-based battles easy to run and hard to pass up.
Because Elemental Evil sets the new standard, there are still some minor bugs for Atari to work through. Because there is so much information that builds up during the adventures, save and load times increases largely throughout the adventure. Resting in some castles create minor glitches in battling modes. Also, if you revisit some battlefields where all creatures weren't killed, their new attacks can cause the game to freeze up. Seeing as Elemental Evil's standards are so high, these small bugs are bound to be easy-fixes.
