[PCGAME] The Temple of Elemental Evil

Zenon · May 19, 2003

I followed the Order link on the Atari Site to EBWorld. They have a ship date of 9/16/03:

http://www.ebgames.com/ebx/categories/products/product.asp?pf_id=235558

Welverin · May 19, 2003

Sept 16th is in Summer so they're still on track, but cutting it close.

Olgar Shiverstone · May 19, 2003

Too close

I hope the 16 September date is a "not later than" date so the retailers can be safe ... but with my luck that will be the final release date.

Welverin · May 20, 2003

It's all part of an evil plan on part of the industry t make us all go into gamer shock, sort of like ferret shock, what with Half-life 2 coming out in the same month.

DaveMage · Jun 5, 2003

I just received my PC Gamer in the mail yesterday. It had an "exclusive" report on ToEE (although I didn't see much in there that we haven't discussed here).

The chart at the front of the article had a release date of "Late 2003". In the body of the article the release was mentioned to be "in the Fall".

Olgar Shiverstone · Jun 6, 2003

If true: Boo. Hiss.

WizarDru · Jun 6, 2003

I believe that gamespy has a set of three screenshots from ToEE as part of an interview article they just put up. The shots look rather nice, with little avatar pics at the top, lined up in intiative order (PCs and monsters).

The graphics look nice, and one appears to be on the Fire Node, I'm guessing. It looks like the interface will be fairly clean, and supposedly will be using the 3.5 rules. The design team sounds pretty knowledgeable about D&D in general (enough to note the oddness of a giant having a 17 Charisma, for example) and claim to have broken out the original module and played through it for research purposes (as well as having played it back in the 80s).

Olgar Shiverstone · Jun 7, 2003

I'm a regular on both of the ToEE boards the Troika guys post on, and I have to vouch for the fact that they have a really good grasp of the game rules.

Tim Cain has made a point of only changing rules where he has to -- even when there are areas that might be handled differently in traditional CRPGs, he defers to the D&D ruleset whenever possible. He's noted that he knows fans will looks over the game with a microscope to find out what 3E (well, 3.5) rules they implemented wrong -- kind of like PJ did with Lord of the Rings.