The possibility to increase the size of the player's party through the recruiting of NPCs was a tradition in all of the Eye of the Beholder series. This can be increased to a maximum of six characters, by resurrecting one or more skeletons from dead non-player characters ( NPCs), or finding NPCs that are found throughout the dungeons. The player controls four characters, initially, using a point-and-click interface to fight monsters. This was changed in the later released Amiga version, which featured an animated ending.Įye of the Beholder features a first-person perspective in a three-dimensional dungeon, very similar to the earlier Dungeon Master. Nothing else was mentioned in the ending and there were no accompanying graphics. Once the eponymous beholder is killed, the player would be treated to a small blue window describing that the beholder was killed and that the adventurers returned to the surface where they were treated as heroes.
The team descends further beneath the city, going through Dwarf and Drow clans, to Xanathar's lair, where the final confrontation takes place. The adventurers enter the city's sewer, but the entrance gets blocked by a collapse caused by Xanathar, the eponymous beholder. The lords of the city of Waterdeep hire a team of adventurers to investigate an evil coming from beneath the city.
EYE OF THE BEHOLDER 3 SETUP SERIES
The third game, however, was not developed by Westwood, which had been acquired by Virgin Interactive in 1992 and created the Lands of Lore series instead. The game has two sequels, Eye of the Beholder II: The Legend of Darkmoon, also released in 1991, and Eye of the Beholder III: Assault on Myth Drannor, released in 1993. In 2002, an adaptation of the same name was developed by Pronto Games for the Game Boy Advance. A port to the Atari Lynx handheld was developed by NuFX in 1993, but was not released. The Sega CD version features a soundtrack composed by Yuzo Koshiro and Motohiro Kawashima. in 1991, for the MS-DOS operating system and later ported to the Amiga, the Sega CD and the SNES. It was published by Strategic Simulations, Inc. With this game, the players are left less than satisfied.Eye of the Beholder is a role-playing video game for personal computers and video game consoles developed by Westwood Associates. If the game were better, the series as a whole would seem like a great job. The graphics are good and detailed and there is no music to mention, while the sound effect are basic and average. It seems like the game was in a hurry to finish and like the developers made a really sloppy job at it. The puzzles are not interesting and too easy. Sure, there are some new additions that were very welcome and useful, like the option for the player to meet other characters and add up to two of them to their party. This game is the third and last installment of the Eye of the Beholder trilogy and unfortunately the worst of them. It will definitely be loved by Golden Box RPG lovers, and even for less enthusiastic ones, I'm sure Eye of the Beholder 3 will prove a cool, beautiful graphically, game. But nonetheless, this third game concludes the series relatively well, and leaves little threads unexplored.
What might be a little underwhelming though, is the lesser quality story which, truth be told, is no longer at the same heights as it was in the second title or, for that matter, in the original Eye of the Beholder. What will surprise you is the art direction, which is very satisfying, very beautiful the areas in which you will be moving about are very beautiful, very well drawn, offering you an undeniable feeling of being there, and a fantasy feel that still holds its freshness, even today, after more than 20 years of the game's release. It's a very well produced game, overall, with a first person interface, in that Golden Box first person canon, yet with a lot more detail than other games. Deal with the lich! The last in the seriesĪssault on Myth Drannor, as Eye of the Beholder 3 is aptly subtitled is the RPG that concludes the series.
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