Demon Stone

by Atari

Product Features

• Select a party of three distinct characters to hack apart enemies, blow them up with magic or sneak through the shadows.
• Battle in 10 beautifully detailed levels from the world of the Forgotten Realms, from Gemspark Mine to the Jungles of Chult.
• Face off against incredible enemies, from D&D lore -- Bugbears, Trolls, Mind Flayers, Slaads, Yuan-Ti's and more.
• Tons of weapons and items to enhance a character's abilities- magic gauntlets, rings and cloaks.
• Purchase character Upgrades and create powerful warriors that can face any challenge.

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0002VQDV2
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: November 16, 2004
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #32,162 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Platform: PC

From the Manufacturer

Three renegade warriors, each with unique fighting abilities. All drawn together by an inexplicable force. After triggering a chain of catastrophic events, they must combine powers to survive a treacherous journey of fate and redemption.

Product Description

Forgotten Realms: Demon Stone delivers the feel of an action movie in an incredible role-playing experience. Its award-winning game engine combines with an incredible story written by best-selling fantasy author R.A. Salvatore. Journey to the mythic land of Faerun, where monsters and magic are real. You set out in a party of three, to right an ancient wrong and restore order to the world. Fulfill prophecies and build a legend as you fight to stop demons from destroying all that you know. Features voice talent by Patrick Stewart and Michael Clarke Duncan

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

22 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars an inadequate port of a mediocre xbox game, March 12, 2005

By 

Christopher G. Williams - See all my reviews
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= Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Demon Stone (CD-ROM)

I picked up this game for two reasons. First because it's a licensed D&D product, and I'm sorta obsessive that way. Second, because R.A. Salvatore's name was attached to it. This is one of those purchases I'm going to live to regret.

For starters, it's an obvious XBOX port. The PC version of the game even makes references to "push the black button" in game. I don't own a joypad for my PC, that's why I have an XBOX. If you try to play this game with a keyboard and mouse you're not going to enjoy it. Trust me.

The graphics are pretty good, and take advantage of my DirectX 9 compatible card, but even still it could be better. There are a few times where there was some pretty bad clipping going on.

Gameplay is incredibly linear, and the "immersive storyline" is a joke. I've played standup arcade games with greater depth. The character levelup occurs at the end of each "episode" and all 3 characters go up at the same rate. Levelling is handled by spending experience points to acquire skills, and the game barely adheres to D&D 3.5e rules (despite it's claims). Also, characters earn an absurd amount of gold between each level although it's unclear where they are getting it. You spend pretty much all of it on powerups when you go up a level.

This game in no way resembles an RPG, despite it's origins in the D&D ruleset (which they obviously ignored). There's no character development at all. Not even in the beginning of the game.

Also, I love R.A. Salvatore's writing, but none of it is apparent in this game.

I'll keep it because it has the D&D logo on it, and like I said I'm kinda funny that way, but I don't recommend you pay anywhere near full price for this game.

20 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Short but sweet, April 12, 2005

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Yu-jin Chia "Yu-Jin Chia" (Cupertino, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Demon Stone (CD-ROM)

If I could sum up Demon Stone in one sentence, it would be that this game is a Forgotten Realm's fan's dream come true. With a story by R.A. Salvatore, featuring some of the most spectacular locations on Faerun, and following an epic adventure with a colorful cast, the game is surely not lacking in quality. Though it's not much of an RPG, there are some RPG elements that should be at least vaguely familiar to D&D players. However, these details do little to get in the way of the main theme, which is pure, unadulterated action. The graphics and sound are second to none, and the production values in general are clearly top-notch.

The only real downsides to the game are its length (only 10 missions, albeit pretty difficult ones) and some moderately serious issues that occured as a result of the game's port from the PS2 to PC. I've played other ported games (namely FF VII and VIII) and so the somewhat awkward controls were no surprise. However, I think Demon Stone actually was better than the norm in that regard. The first glitch I noticed was a curious reference to the 'square button.' Hmm... there's an awful lot of them on this here keyboard, and I wonder which they're talking about. I also had no voices in the first cutscene and had to turn on subtitles to figure out what was going on. Additionally, one of the doors in Khelben's tower didn't open when it was supposed to, though a second play through (thankfully) resolved the issue. I did also see a few minor graphics glitches, and the menu screens are obviously still using sub-par console resolution. There is already a patch that addresses a few showstopper issues, which certainly couldn't have existed in the PS2 version.

The console pedigree shows through in the limited saves and check points. Those familiar with other PC action games might be a bit irritated by this, though the checkpoints are generally quite well placed. Nevertheless, you must finish a whole chapter to save the game and resume after quitting, which essentially means you have to do 1/10th of the game at a time.

Complaints about the conversion aside, I really couldn't find much to fault in Demon Stone. Seeing as how I don't own a PS2, all I really cared about was that someone actually took the time to put this excellent game on the PC. If you haven't played it, and are at all interested in action gaming or the Forgotten Realms campaign setting, then I heartily recommend you pick this up.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not the best game, April 9, 2005

By 

Emily H. (Minneapolis, MN) - See all my reviews

= Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Demon Stone (CD-ROM)

Okay if you like hack and slash without much of a storyline. Not okay if what you want is a real role-playing game like Baldur's Gate. I like R.A. Salvatore's novels also. I was expecting a bit more of a role-playing game as opposed to a strictly linear hack n' slash game. This is much like the LoTR movie-based game that came out at about the same time as the 3rd movie, IIRC.

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