Here are a few quotes from what gaming magazines and other people think of Descent to Undermountain.
gamespot: How could the company that produced Fallout also be responsible for one of the lousiest games to come down the pike?
wikipedia: Bugs, embarrassingly weak AI, the unappealing and shoddy nature of the graphics, and several other issues have lead to...
youtube: features DTU with a video with the beautiful title: "PC released worst game ever", including comments that contain words like: suckage, horrible, ripage, WTF, crappiness, incredible disappointment.
What is so funny about Descent to Undermountain? Well, I won't bore you with details, I can only tell you: YOU try to think about any bad thing that can happen when developing a game, and I promise you, that it is there in DTU! lol
For example, Interplay licensed the "Descent" Engine because of it's multiplayer capabilities. That was one of the first engines to support games over internet. Then DTU was hyped as the best multiplayer game ever! Needless to say, that multiplayer was ripped 1 week before the release.
But the descent engine was also well known for it's weakness to display organic living beeings, which was not uncommon for a space shooter with only vehicles and ships. But of course, Interplay had no space ships to display, only ... "organic beeings" like orcs trolls goblins etc.
Want more? Well, DTU has been developed by three different developement teams. The first programmers wrote 1 year on it, then Interplay was not satisfied and gave it into the hands of another group. Who, after a another year were forced to give it into yet again to another developement team. These had only one month to finish the game, but complained that they could not see any sense in the code and had to rewrite the entire game from scratch!
Some more reviews from other magazines:
PC-Player (germany): Descent to Undermountain is unattractive, confusing, plastered with graphical bugs and despite of it all, remarkably slow. Very well planned, but ruined by disastrous gameplay.
Computer games magazine: Ugh, enough already.
PC-Action: We got used to slow, pixelated and colorless graphics. Even linear paths, unlogical riddles and hardly comprehensible calculations in the background are common among RPGs today. But Descent to Undermountain tops them all! The combination of all those are beyond our comprehension...
Mobygames even claims: Descent to Undermountain was THE game that inspired laziness in the game industry.
But of course any given game cannot only have negative points. There must always be at least 1 positive to say about. And DtU has it: The uninstallation.
After removing this game from your harddrive, make sure you format it 5x with alternating patterns to make sure the game is gone. Then, unplug your harddrive and blow it up with 1 pound of dynamite. Pick up the small debris parts and throw them into the wastepaper basket. Use a blowpipe to melt the wastepaper basket at 2000° celsius...
|