Eye of the Beholder

SSI Strategic Simulations Inc. released Eye of the Beholder in the year 1991; it's an old fantasy rpg game, part of the Eye of the beholder series. Eye of the Beholder is abandonware, runs on DOS and can be played in single player mode. Eye of the Beholder is a licensed Dungeons & Dragons video game. It's available for download.

Rating: 4.17

(121 votes)

abandonware

Genre:

rpg / first person perspective

system:

DOS

released:

1991

publisher:

SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.

developer:

Westwood Studios

designers:

Joseph Bostic, Phillip W. Gorrow, Eydie Laramore, Paul S. Mudra

keywords:

fantasy, class-based, Dungeons & Dragons, dungeon crawl, party-based, auto mapping, false 3D

Downloads for Eye of the Beholder

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Trouble running this game? Check out the F.A.Q.

Screenshots

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Video

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Additional info

Facts, trivia and collector's notes are licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. These texts use material from this Wikipedia article.

Several remakes of the original game have been created as modules for Neverwinter Nights.

Two similar games, Legacy and The Quest, have been produced for the Pocket PC and Palm by another company, Redshift. These appear to use some identical wall textures and even map sections.

There were also two official sequels to Eye of the Beholder : Eye of the Beholder II - The Legend of Darkmoon and Eye of the Beholder III - Assault on Myth Drannor.

players: single player

input: keyboard, mouse

distribution: cd-rom

graphics: VGA

sound: Roland, Sound Blaster

Abandonware DOS views: 9621

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Eye of the beholder series

Other games in the Eye of the beholder series:

Collector's notes:

Eye of the Beholder Trilogy (1995, SSI) was a rerelease of all the three games for MS-DOS on CD-ROM. They also appeared later in Gamefest: Forgotten Realms Classics (2001, Interplay).

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