Planescape - Torment (PC)

I have been a fan of games that have used the Infinity engine for some time now. I started out on the original Fallout, before moving onto Baldur's Gate and, more recently, Icewind Dale and Neverwinter Nights. Many moons ago I played Planescape:Torment (known as PT from hereon in) and found it boring and pedestrian with a terrible combat system. My mistake was trying to play it as I had played the likes of Baldur's Gate, for PT is correctly regarded as one of the greatest ever Role Playing Games, coming from a time when the name actually meant something. The beauty of 2 dimensional games is that they tend not to age as badly as 3 dimensional. Whack ...  Read the complete review

Planescape:Torment is one of the best role playing games ever created for the PC. This is not so much due to the game engine - this is a pretty standard point and click RPG in the model of Baldur's Gate - but because it emphasises the story and character development over hacking and slashing creatures in dungeons. In practical terms, this emphasis means that conversations become important to directing the plot, not just moving along it. Character development of the Nameless One is quite freeform and the class and abilities you choose will have a big impact on how you can play the game. The planescape setting is also one of the most wonderful in ...  Read the complete review

I must have played maybe 30 RPGs or more over the years, however in these days of Guild wars, Neverwinter nights and Final Fantasy 139.0's, I can't help thinking back with a certain degree of wistfulness to a game released on PC years ago which still towers head and shoulders above it's much more flashy decendants. Why? Because it had a story that grew and branched out and was riveting in its complexity and depth. It had henchmen that were actually interesting, with stories of their own that were'nt simply links to fetch 'n carry quests. It had possibly the most trippy setting of the D&D Universe and it had a unique central character that could be any ...  Read the complete review

You like role-playing games, of course you do , what can be more fun than at the end of a stressful and boring day of work, you set about bludgeoning to death a series of bizarre monsters who have more points of articulation than a Swiss army knife. And so this is one of those opinions where I tell you how wonderful the product is, you read it, I get dooyoo miles and everyone is happy at the end of it ... hopefully. But enough about this introduction, onwards! Oh yeah and plot details are discussed so look away or turn off the computer and walk away. Well isn’t Black Isle just marvellous. Not only did they help produce the brilliant games ...  Read the complete review

Sadly I am a Dungeons and Dragons veteran. It's not something I'm proud of, but it is a hobby I can pursue without embarassing recrimination thanks to a software company known as Black Isle. These darling people are responsible for bringing the world of Role-Playing (RP) to the masses in the form of graphical adventure games for the PC. They started out with the superlative post-apocalyptic Fallout series (recently extended with the new Fallout Tactics game). They then moved into partnership with TSR (the makers of Dungeons and Dragons) to bring us the ubiquitously lauded Baldur's Gate. If you've heard of PC games you've heard of Baldur's Gate. ...  Read the complete review