![]() Fight For Your RightĪlso of note is the excellent combat system (see boxout). Fortunately, this lack of a party atmosphere is eased slightly by a nice-looking isometric engine and a great soundtrack. They also get a bit stroppy when you try to sell their things. The NPCs you encounter in the game are a chatty bunch, right up until they join your party, at which point - save for a few perfunctory comments when entering new levels - they are silent. Your chosen alignment has a bearing on the characters you have access to, both in the initial party creation screen and later on in the game. You start the game with up to five characters, which you can either create yourself or choose from a respectable pre-prepared pool. Generally these villages are good for two things - experience points and bolstering your party numbers. Much of the early part of the game is spent toing and froing between houses, talking to NPCs and slowly accumulating experience points. To begin with you're provided with the usual collection of village quests in which you help out a bunch of useless squabbling locals who couldn't fight their way out of a wet paper bag. There are no big surprises here, and much of the game is taken up by a large dungeon crawl through the titular temple itself. ![]() In fact it doesn't have many locations, and the ones it does have could have been taken out of an identikit RPG 'village' or 'dungeon'. ![]() Troika Games has had a fare stab at emulating Bioware's winning recipe with The Temple Of Elemental Evil, which uses the new 3.5 edition rule set in a party-based adventure. Although Bioware might have taken a box of standard D&D Victoria sponge and somehow managed to turn it into a triple chocolate fudge cake with their hugely successful Baldur's Gate series, not all developers can bake up an RPG as well as these lads can. ![]() All the elements are there for a standard RPG adventure, it just requires the appropriate bindings to take it off the paper and on to the screen. The Dungeons & Dragon world has always provided a lot of shake'n'bake potential for creating computer games. ![]()
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