Wheel of Time Demo Mirrors

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Personally I though it created a great atmosphere. The medieval themes are well implemented and the sound effects come through great with a3d.

The monster AI is good and keeps you thinking. (Those eyes looking at you from dark corners are neat.) As for the mist.. it was a challenge at first but eventually became just an annoyance, I could do without.

As for the graphics, it could have used a few more polys in some places. Some of the textures lacked depth. It performed as well as any other comprable game.

Overall, it\'s a good demo but not something I\'m going to pay $50 for in the store. Maybe when it gets down to $20 =)

I just played some WOT and it\'s pretty cool. I dunno what you guys are talkin\' about. The graphics are nice, Hexenish, and the gameplay is cool as well. It\'s more puzzley, so I guess AD&D fans or something would enjoy something like this. There\'s a lot of RPG elements in it as well - elemental defenses, for one. I dunno, I just like it :)

How about some REAL thoughts on the game? How about some
facts to back up these lame posts of \"this game blows ass!\"
and \"this game looks/plays like shit!\"

First off, the graphics are cool. It has this medevil/castle thing going. The enemies? Atleast they are something decent to kill, they have some pretty original monsters in here. Killer mist? Where else have you seen that? It fits in to the game well. The sounds are pretty spooky too. The single player experience is MUCH better than Quake/Quake2/more than likey Q3. Yes the multi sucks nut, but sometimes I like a single player experience as well. As far as performance? The game ran great in 800x600 details on high, on my
P2-350/128MbRAM/TNT/v2 SLI. I\'m on DSL so I wasn\'t even trippin\' on the download. Sorry for you modem users that were pissed when it wasn\'t the next game of the year. Something different from the same old \"let\'s shoot some stupid looking models in a borning yet pretty techno metal what ever you call it world.\" I\'ve been playing sence qtest, but the same game with better graphics 3x is getting kinda lame.
Yes I\'ll buy q3 and play the shit out of it, but i will spend more time on a game like this.

#52
your a lame ass and no
one gives a rats ass what you say
moron

you guys are brutal...

for anybody planning to download this demo- don\'t. IT\'s the most horrible shit I\'ve played since Unreal Tournament. Actually, it makes Unreal Tournament look fun. Also, the preformance is ass, and the graphics look like shit runover twice.

Recap: this game blows hard chunks of re-fried ass, up the monkey\'s anal cavities

Have had no problems installing. Game runs great. Running on a Matrox G400 w/ no problems in D3D. Hasn\'t held my attention for too long, ah well, back to Nocturne and DK2. btw, running on a P3 550, 128 megs of ram.

Just spent like 6 hours downloading this demo,and I have to say it was well worth the trouble. Play\'s great with the v2\'sli,and with the tnt2 ultra.Don\'t understand why some are having a bad time getting the demo to work satisfactory.

I have P2 233 64 ram V2 8mb .. shitty. but runs well, didn\'t notice any errors and it only slowed down occasionaly. The atmosphere was really good, i like the eyes in the shadows .. but the spells are crap. in the books the spells are huge and powerful, in the game crappy and shit. i guess they had to make it that way for the game, but still a dissapointment. i\'ll probably buy this game just coz it\'s WOT

#39
Apparently you like making things up. I\'ve only read one post (#6) which implied that they should have selected the q3a engine as opposed to the Unreal engine. No one has actually said that they should have used the Q3A engine. However, there is no denying that it DOES run like crap for TNT/D3d users and even some 3dfx/TNT2 users and the engine seems the best thing to blame.

Apparently some of you idiots are under the impression that the Q3 engine has been around for years. Get this: IT WASN\'T AROUND WHEN THIS PROJECT WAS STARTED! Saying they should have used the Q3 engine for WoT is incredibly stupid.

i think the graphics are decent.. nothing beyond anything i have seen before. i like the lighting in shador logoth. it ran fast on my tnt2 with p2-450 after i got that d3d fix.. runs faster than on my voodoo2 im pretty sure... at 1024x768 aand everything turned up its still smooth. Problem is that its boring.. really the spells don\'t really have any punch too them, and those that do are just plain boring (like the seeker that is nothing more than a heat seaking bfg ball) the effects are nice, but i wont be playing this one much

I changed to 32-bit and yup it does look at LOT better now. Looks like Unreal should look instead of the grainy galore i was playing before. However im now running even slower than before, heh :( . I agree the textures are very nice in someplaces, but theres no point in me trying to experience the game when it runs slower at 640x480-16bit than Quake3 does at 800x600-32bit everything turned on. If performance isnt improved considerable, i\'ll just wait for the next single player fps that comes out. Probably SOF, or maaaybe Daikatana heh.

I\'m going to defend Mr. Worch\'s game... the palette is grayish, but it IS medieval architecture.

Ha! I wish people said that about Quake, back when it came out. Some Unreal fans still complain that Quake3 doesn\'t have enough colors.

I\'m going to defend Mr. Worch\'s game... the palette is grayish, but it IS medieval architecture. Said architecture is really well-done in Wheel of Time.

I enjoy this game... nice level design, lots of visual goodness, and the spell mechanics are interesting. I must confess that I\'d still probably take UT over this, but that\'s more a matter of personal preference over any technical aspects.

If the textures look all washed out and you\'re using a TNT try setting your Windows desktop to 32bit before playing. TNTs don\'t support palletized textures, UT has the same problems...

I\'ll agree with everything skid (#29) said, and just add 1 more positive and negative thing. The first room on the intro map was beautiful because of some good textures, but that went downhill fast. I also liked the way the monsters stare at you from the dark... I\'ll leave it at that for those who haven\'t played. But god damn is that game slow once you start actually playing it (don\'t be fooled by the opening level). And what\'s really stupid is if you lower the resolution and use \'F2\' to get info on the items you pick up, it actually switches back to 640x480 just to show you the little help screen and then switches back (the help screen holds about 1 sentance worth of info, just dump it to the console for christ\'s sake). And you think with any other engine that thats something you could deal with, but not in this game... it takes literally 5 minutes for it to \'precache\' for both the help screen and then going back into the game. I am not joking if I needed to know what\'s going on with a weapon it was a good opportunity to go get another bowl of cereal and check whats on TV or take the dog out or something.

77 Megs downloaded in 30 minutes, played for 15, and deleted. Woo.

I wish the Childeren of the Light were more like the monks in Blood :)

CROUDOX CROU! :)

-ZeBFFd00d

I didnt really find it to be good looking either.
Its probably just because it uses a \"made for glide\" engine, and im running on a tnt. but its looks so bland, even with everything turned on upto the highest setting.

For example, take the deathmatch portal room in the start map. I\'ve got detail texturing on and everything, and it still looks like total crap. The bridge pulsates if you look down on it, and all the textures just seem to be a bland shade of grey. It wouldnt matter that much if it was a detailed room, but its extremely low-poly as well. Ends up looking like something made out of grey blocks.

I couldnt find any atmosphere in it, which was a surprise. I was expecting it to be loaded with that, considering its using the unreal engine in a fantasy setting. perhaps it was the lack of music, or crappy graphics, or just my system (cele-450, 128megs, tnt) because it struttered even on the lowest graphical settings. or maybe it was boring sliding monsters who basically had one attack. (run after the player clawing until it dies, or shes dies). The clouds were the best, most orignal part in the demo. Really liked those.

Im not biased against it or anything, i really really wanted to like it. Havent played a good single player game since SystemShock2, and this looked very interesting. I really love fantasy/medevil settings but the demo simply sucked. As it stands right now, i liked the single player game in Unreal a LOT more than this demo.

#26: What are you talking about, in mutilplayer games you have a LOT more stuff going on, players running around, shooting going on, etc. WoT is not nearly as \"busy\" as a Quake3 game.

The engine they used is inferior, but after all this game was supposed to come out shortly after Unreal, there\'s no way they could have planned on using the Unreal engine back then.

yes, this game SUCKS, it neeeds sooooooooo much more work

This game reminds me of Mortyr: highly overhyped, awesome screenshots, but no substance.

By the way, Unreal fanatics who hated Quake\'s \"all brown\" color scheme must be enraged over WoT. It\'s all gray!