Dead Good (Planescape - Torment (PC))

Member Name: Vast_Girth

Product:	Planescape - Torment (PC)
Date:	08/09/01 (33 review reads)
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Advantages: Original, Big, many many more

Disadvantages: none

I had bought this game when it came out last year, and as it has just been re-released on budget i thought i should write and tell everybody how fantastic it it.

This is an RPG adventure like no other you have ever played. It is set in Sigal, city of doors and it a million miles away from the normal RPG world of dwarfs, beards and kobolds. It is a world populated by bizarre creatures and landscapes. The best way to illustrate the nature of the world is to tell you that one of the entities you incounter is a pregnant alleyway (yes an alleyway).
You take the role of 'the nameless one' who find himself on a slab in a mortuary with no idea who he is or how he got there. The nameless one is immortal and everytime he is killed he wakes up with just a few extra scars. An adventure game in which you cant die? Well nearly, you can be erradicated by a few things such as being digested by something, etc.
The character development is fanatstic but a little limited, a thief, figher or mage being the only classes available. But because you are not learning new skills, you are remembering them (becasue of all your past lives) you can switch at will between the classes. By the end of the game you are incredibly powerful capable of astonishing attacks or truely awe inspiring spells.
The immortality aspect allows for some very clever plot devices, such as being able to locate your old eyeball to replace your current one or finding a ring inside your intestine that you put there for safe keeping.
The story itself is amazing, full of twists and turn and guarenteed to keep you interested right up to end.
You can have up to another 5 characters in your group out of a total of 7. This may seem small but it has allowed the developers to build up much rounder characters and the interaction between the group is great, with love, arguements, bitching and full scale fights braking out. If a character doesn't like the what you are doing he may deci
de to leave all together. e.g a good character would object to evil actions.
There is so much more to this game, with factions, which you can become a member of to gain quests and artifacts, the personalities of the characters you meet as well as the ones that can join your group, the great spell effects, similar to the elaborate spell efects in the Final Fantasy series, to its dark dark sense of humour. It made me laugh out loud a couple of time and any game with necrophilia jokes in the first 2 minutes gets my vote straught away.
Please bear in mind this is an adult game, and not suitable for young children.

This is the best RPG i have ever played, its original, full of surprises, and will suck you into the story and you wont want to end.
Now its out on budget you have no excuse. If you are in anyway interested in gaming and even if your not, Buy this game now.

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