| Eye of the Beholder | |
|---|---|
| The logo for Eye of the Beholder. | |
| Developer(s) | Westwood Studios |
| Publisher(s) | Strategic Simulations, Inc. |
| Year introduced | 1990 |
| Genre(s) | Role-playing |
| Parent series | Dungeon Master, Forgotten Realms |
The Eye of the Beholder series started as a clone of the Dungeon Master series adding elements from Forgotten Realms, a Dungeons & Dragons setting.
The peculiarity of the Dungeon Master & Eye of the Beholder series is the "combat dance", a combination of tile-based movement and real-time action combat.
| Game title | Year | Computer versions |
Console ports |
Japan only |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eye of the Beholder | 1991 | MS-DOS, Amiga | SNES, Sega CD | PC-98 |
| Eye of the Beholder II: The Legend of Darkmoon | 1991 | MS-DOS, Amiga | - | PC-98, FM Towns |
| Eye of the Beholder III: Assault on Myth Drannor | 1992 | MS-DOS | - | PC-98 |
Note that the game Eye of the Beholder (GBA) for the Game Boy Advance is excluded from this series. In fact, instead of the "combat dance", said game features turn-based combat on a tactical map, making it a spiritual successor to the Gold Box games.
Legacy crossovers[edit | edit source]
The Eye of the Beholder trilogy started a lineage of Dungeons & Dragons games that begins with two graphical roguelikes and ends with two first-person shooters:
- Dungeon Hack: this graphical roguelike set in the Forgotten Realms is a crossover between Dungeon Master and NetHack (hence the title). It reuses the engine of Eye of the Beholder 3.
- Slayer: the spiritual sequel to Dungeon Hack is another D&D graphical roguelike, but with full three-dimensional graphics.
- DeathKeep: a crossover between the Slayer engine and Doom, it is a first-person shooter developed by the same team of Doom II.
- Descent to Undermountain: a crossover between D&D and Descent, it is a first-person shooter similar to DeathKeep.
Engines[edit | edit source]
The game engine of Eye of the Beholder 1 & 2 was later reused for Lands of Lore and the Legend of Kyrandia series. Eye of the Beholder 3 uses a different engine, that was reused just for Dungeon Hack. [1]
References[edit | edit source]
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