Planets (Planescape - Torment (PC))

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Product:	Planescape - Torment (PC)
Date:	12/07/00 (5 review reads)
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Advantages: Fantastically gripping story and great playability

Disadvantages: Many hours lost to the PC again

Planescape Torment This game is based on the popular Planescape realms of fantasy role playing fame. In it, you take the lead as The "Nameless One", a character that awakens on a slab in a mortuary with no knowledge of who he is or how he got there. You can modify this character to soe extent, deciding whether he is a fighter, a thief or a mage so to speak. This will play a key role in how you play the game. What follows is a quest that takes you across the planes in search of your identity and leaves at all times wondering "what am I doing here?" The game has a very nice twist in that the main character is immmortal (odd for a game you know). This means you are free to die as often as you like and you will hop straight back up again in a safe place ready for more. The game features many interesting additions such as the ability to take additional characters with you to assist you with the game in various ways. These characters themselves can also be fighters, thieves and so on... What I liked about the game is its excellent story. The more you work your way through the game the more you reveal about yourself and your past. Discovering your past is a major part of finding your future and as you progress you will discover that you have lived countless lives. Each life with its own unique personality and each having a profound effect on the realm in which it existed. The game has everything, action, adventure, mystery, romance... you name it. I have only come across a game so complete once before and that was Baldurs Gate. If you liked BG, you will love this, the combat is very similar as with many other aspects of the games. Visually it is not terribly impressive in the character graphics but the spells more than make up for this. It is clear that a lot of work has gone into this and the quality bursts out everywhere. It would be easy for me to go on about this forever but I will simply say, Planescape Torment is a story, a story in which you have
control of the lead. However its not just a story, its agreat story and defiitely one not to be missed by anyone that calls themselves an RPG fan. Happy Planewalking!

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