Saturday, December 18, 2004

Scourge of Worlds DVD Review

Scourge of Worlds is a Dungeons & Dragons Adventure DVD where you get to pick the outcome of the animated film. It appears to be a joint venture of Rhino, Hasbro and Wizard of the Coast.

Supposedly there are 990 stories on the one disk, but ultimately only 4 different outcomes. It takes about an hour and a half to get through this adventure since you are constantly being asked where you want to go or what you want to do.

The animation is similar to early computer games, in otherwords not the lastest and greatest cgi.

True D&D fans should enjoy it, especially the fact that everytime you watch it you will experience a different fantasy and be confronted by angels, wraiths, druids, orcs and demonic beholders.

Your goal is to save the world. The stories revolve around three heroes -- Regdar a human warrior, Lidda a rogue halfling, and Mialee an elf wizard who set out on their quest to recover a stolen map and its thief. This map leads toan ultimate weapon created by an ancient race of mages who made it to destroy their enemies and end all wars. This weapon, the Aryx Orthian or Scourge of Worlds must not fall into the wrong hands and there are those out to stop them at all costs.

My first attempt at watching [or is that playing] this DVD everyone ended up dead and the Scourge of Worlds was recovered by an evil enemy. Upon rewatching it I did indeed have a completely different experience as I made different choices for the characters.

The website has more information on the film and characters, plus some nice screen shots to take a look at.

http://www.scourgeofworlds.com/