Pool of Radiance (Jewel Case)

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Product Features

• Set in the Forgotten Realms of Dungeons & Dragons using new 3rd Edition rules
• Featuring new character classes and races, such as Barbarians, Monks, Paladins, and Half-Orcs
• Cast over 100 spells - both Sorcerer and Cleric, plus Orisons and Cantrips
• Create 4 characters of a 6-character party
• 3-D animated characters battle monsters in interactive environments

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0002X5PIW
• Item Weight: 5 ounces
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: October 17, 2003
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #12,175 in Video Games (See Bestsellers in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Product Description

Pool of Radiance: Ruins Of Myth Drannor brings you back to the classic role-playing adventure. The evil Pool Of Radiance has resurfaced, turning all who touch it into undead. You must create a party of six adventurers and explore the haunted elven ruins of Myth Drannor in order to stop the Pool's evil influence.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars true D&D dice play!, May 15, 2006

By	Pythagoras (Oceanside, NY) - See all my reviews

Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

I played this game very recently--after Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter Nights, IceWind Dale, Arcanum, etc. and after getting over the initial discomfort of the yester-year technology, I became totally immersed in it. It took a short time for me to get used to not being able to turn around. The game ranks very high on my list of favorites. I liked it much better than Icewind Dale--which became overly boring. I'm still reluctant to stop playing it eventhough I already beat it and am just roaming around doing nothing. It is role-playing in the truest form, which is almost impossible to find in computer games. You get penalized for backing up from an enemy, you can't just walk a million steps and take a thousand actions and have all day to take your turn. If you're really a role-player it's a must have!

The only negative is that it crashed often (you must save alot)--I was running it on XP with directX9.

2.0 out of 5 stars A solid premise poorly executed, November 24, 2009

By	Jesse Boyd (US) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars 

Pool of Radiance has all the makings of a great RPG at first. The graphics are nice, the quest seems long, the DnD system is there, the battles have an old school turn-based setup bound to be fun. Then it goes and gets itself killed in the details.

Most cripplingly, you cannot choose half of your character's abilities: feats and skills. This is an amazingly horrible idea, and for the life of me I cannot imagine why this decision was made. Character customization goes out the window any further than race, class(es), and stats. The game picks the rest for you. Might as well rewind 20 years to FIGHTER THIEF MAGE CLERIC, because that's all there is. Oh, good, the computer chose Skill Focus: Disable Device for my Rogue. Hooray.

This alone might be surmountable were it not for a sluggish and lousy control system that bogs down the actual battles to being just kinda tedious. Giving a single command requires several different categories of actions be perused just to cast one stupid little Magic Missile. It becomes tempting to make 4 Fighters just to speed the game play up by click click clicking.

The plot looked likable enough even if nothing special, but between the lack of character customization and sluggish battle system I just couldn't stay interested for more than a few hours. Pool of Radiance just has nothing going for it to counter its gaping flaws.

5 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars R.P.G. As it should be, January 14, 2006

By	scott a hartley "S.A.H." (Louisiana) - See all my reviews

Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

Pool Of Radiance is a perfect Role Playing Game. The users that have problems with it (and like games like Baulders Gate) are click festers. They do not want to think about what to do they just want to click and go. Role Playing games are meant to be turn based so that you can accurately control your party. In real life, and I have been in real life combat, a team does not just rush in and hack away. Each person makes decisions based on what they are confronted with and what the rest of the team is doing. If you just hack away you end up dead. I love to play the dice version of D&D and this is the closest thing I have ever seen to it on a computer. Temple of Elemental Evil is ok. but compared to the graphics of Pool it sucks as well.