Planescape - Torment (PC) Reviews

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 ...  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, ...  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 ...  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 ...  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. ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

Some computer games are very dull or very stupid. Some computer games are very dull AND very stupid. So when you stumble upon a computer game that is not only neither dull nor stupid, but actually very exciting and very clever, it is a cause for great celebration. And PLANESCAPE: TORMENT is just such a game. It is certainly the only PC game I have ...  Read the complete review

When I first saw this game for sale in the shops I was a bit hesitant as to whether or not to buy it, while I had liked baldur's gate I had never finished it and in fact got fairly bored with the game. Within minutes of playing Planescape: Torment however I really got drawn into the story, it was the best I had ever seen in any game for a ...  Read the complete review

Planescape needless to say is different from any other rpg. The humour is no way for some younger bg fans and is more in line with the stylings with fallout but then this is a black isle game as opposed to a bioware game. The first thing to notice is that everything is much bigger and frankly if you play this then go back to bg you'll wonder ...  Read the complete review

Conceptually stunning, visually astounding and generally amazing. Planescape takes us out of the usual hack and slash settings we find in the genre (Baldur's Gate for instance) and into a series of worlds where your greatest weapon isn't a sword +5 or anything like that, but your mind. The plot is complex and cohesive from beginning to ...  Read the complete review

RPGs are rapidly changing shape these days. With things moving into first-person and closer to the dreaded action/adventure game, it's easy to lose touch with what makes a *real* RPG. There have been very few true members of the genre appearing recently, as developers move into things which have a wider appeal for the general public. It looked ...  Read the complete review

Having played Baldurs Gate and Fallout 2 I eagerly awaited the release of Planescape Torment. Sadly, I was hugely disappointed in the game. No loads of monsters, no items to buy etc and not much in the way of battles etc. It was more like having a chat than playing an RPG to be brutally honest. You have to interminably talk to everyone you ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

"One of these days you'll wake up dead" said my mum, exsaparated with me daydreaming instead of doing the chores. And you know what? She was right. In Torment, you play a corpse that's just woken up on a mortuary slab. You know nothing about the world you live in, what you are doing dead, and even what your name is. ...  Read the complete review

I'm a veteran computer games player, and I have to say that its been a long time since a game managed to draw me in as much as Planescape Torment. In fact, aside from Half-Life, its the only CD-ROM-era game that I would rate up there with classics such as Elite and Ultima IV in terms of total immersion in a game's story world. Obviously, ...  Read the complete review

I bought this because I was so impressed with Baldurs Gate (BG) and both use the same game engine. For me Planescape was definitely the better of the two. In fact, soon as I’d finished it, I started playing again. If you bear in mind I’d only actually finished 2 games (Populous 2 and Baldurs Gate) before this in 18 years of computer ...  Read the complete review

I was eagerly awaiting the release of this game, after playing Fallout, Fallout 2 and then Bulders Gate (admittedly they were not produced by the same team but they were create by Black Isle Studios). Unfortunately the game did not live up to the standards of its forerunners. The game area is expansive and the graphical effects are ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

Planescape is quite a unique rpg game. Your character begins his journey as an undead who has lost all his memories. As you journey through the planescape world you slowly find out more about yourself and your 'destiny'. You'll meet strangers who will help you along the way and you can ask some to join you. There are three ...  Read the complete review

Imaginative, dark, exciting, thought-provoking, and wonderfully complex. Nope, nothing I say can do this game justice. I hesitate to say game, because its more akin to a compelling novel. You start as a character who doesn't know who he is or how he got there, and must through interacting with the many characters throughout the game ...  Read the complete review