This game from Gremlin Entertainment was a superb adaptation from the board game, Hero Quest. Having played the board game from the age of approximately four and a half years of age, I was very sceptical when I heard that a computer game had been made out of it. But the team at Gremlin entertainment (the people who released the game on P C) have made a masterful and epic DOS game.
It brings in to use all of the aspects that made the board game so addictive and lovable.
The dice rolling had masterful sound qualities as did the rest of the game. This added quite a lot to the game as playing in silence or with cheesy background music would taken away from the games beginnings and would simply bore your knickers off! ! ! But the sound effects involved with the discovering of traps and killing of enemies and as afore mentioned the dice rolling are both realistic and exciting.
It keeps the essence of the characters, the Barbarian (from the Greek word BarBar meaning non Greek speakers), the dwarf (who happened to be my personal favourite because how many heroes are 4 foot tall ? ? ?) the elf (who I do not personally
like as he is too woman like) and the wizard (who is even worse as he is a rubbish fighter and I love WAR!) and also the enemies that you have to fight for example, orcs, goblins, zombies, skeletons, mummies, femurs and *dramatic music* the gargoyle. I felt they were represented well in the game and they looked not dissimilar to how they do in the board game.
It was good to see how the view worked how you could only see a certain section of corridor before it turned a corner etc. As regards the movement sometimes whilst moving around in rooms you had to be careful because sometimes it moved over squares you didn’t want to move over and this could get really annoying when it meant that you fell into a pit trap.
The game, in essence, is simplistic to play (both the board game and the DOS version of the game) any body from the age of three upwards would be able to play it with interest and satisfaction, in saying that adults would love to pass their well earned rest time on this game too even though it may seem a little too basic for some people. Out of 10 I would give it 8.
