Menzoberranzan (video game)

Menzoberranzan
Cover art of Menzoberranzan
Developer(s)	DreamForge Intertainment
Publisher(s)	Strategic Simulations, Inc.
Platform(s)	DOS
Release date(s)	NA 1994 EU 1994
Genre(s)	Role-playing
Mode(s)	Single-player

Menzoberranzan (1994) is the title of a PC game created by SSI and DreamForge Intertainment and uses the same game engine as SSI's previous game Ravenloft: Strahd's Possession (1994). It is set in the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting Forgotten Realms. Menzoberranzan, an underground city populated by the Drow, had been introduced in the game materials two years earlier in December 1992 in a three-book box set called Menzoberranzan: The Famed City of the Drow by Ed Greenwood, Salvatore, and Douglas Niles.^[1]

It has elements of Ultima Underworld (3d world and real-time action) and its game concept is somewhat similar to Westwood’s Eye of the Beholder series.^{[citation needed]}

The game also features Drizzt Do'Urden as one of the main characters.

Ian Cole from the now defunct Quandaryland website awarded the game 3.5 stars out 5. He was critical of the slowness of the game compared to Ravenloft and that "too many places were empty — just nothing". He praises that this was not a typical hack and slash game with a lot of character's statistics and puzzle solving.^[2]

References

1. ^ Salvatore, R. A.; Ed Greenwood, Douglas Niles (1992). Menzoberranzan: The Famed City of the Drow, Revealed At Last!. TSR Inc.. ISBN 1-5607-6460-0. 
2. ^ Cole, Ian (February 1995). "Menzoberranzan". quandaryland.com. http://web.archive.org/web/20040305043839/http://www.quandaryland.com/jsp/dispArticle.jsp?index=47. Retrieved 18 April 2008. 

External links

• Menzoberranzan at MobyGames