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Scourge of Worlds - A Dungeons & Dragons Adventure | 
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| Director: Dan Krech
Actors: Dan Hay, Lester Rosenthal, Anna Deas, Caroline Lesley, Jack Brown
Studio: Rhino Theatrical
Category: DVD
List Price: $24.95
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Rating:  48 reviews
Sales Rank: 33867
Format: Animated, Color, DVD, NTSC
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Unrated
Region: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Running Time: 90 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.6 x 0.6
MPN: 603497013029
ISBN: 1566059704
UPC: 603497013029
EAN: 9781566059701
ASIN: B00009KU8L
Theatrical Release Date: June 10, 2003
Release Date: June 10, 2003
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Studio: Wea-des Moines Video Release Date: 06/10/2003 Run time: 90 minutes Rating: Nr
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Scourge of Worlds: A Dungeons and Dragons Adventure is not a film sequel to Dungeons and Dragons (2000), but the DVD equivalent of an interactive role-playing novel. There are over 900 short digitally animated sequences, leading every so often to a choice to be made with the remote control, resulting after about 90 minutes in one of four possible endings. Just as the original D&D was inspired by The Lord of the Rings, the scenarios here are Tolkien rehashed: a newly arisen darkness is seeking an ancient ultimate weapon, against which stand a human warrior, Regdar; a halfling, Lidda; and an elven wizard, Mialee. The CGI is closer to Roughnecks: The Starship Troopers Chronicles than the pseudo-realism of Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, the electronic score is tiresome and the contemporary voice acting, using such expressions as "heads up" and "…or something," is laughable. What of the interactive element? Essentially it offers two equally uninteresting paths at the end of every major scene--uninteresting because it's impossible to care what happens to the marionette-like stereotypes no matter what they do. While the adventure does offer plenty of well-choreographed cartoon-style action, interacting with Scourge of Worlds is ultimately about as much fun as watching someone else play a computer game--and that's just the first time through. --Gary S. Dalkin
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 Phenomenal Product! July 20, 2010
Fugue
Arrived in timely fashion. Excellent condition. Wonderful experience. Overall this was a very good transaction.
 Intriguing Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Concept August 14, 2009
Ana Mardoll (United States)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Scourge of Worlds / B00009KU8L
I've always been a fan of "Choose-Your-Own-Adventure" style novels, and sometimes it seems a bit of a waste of potential that we don't have more movies operating under the same kind of concept. I mean, considering how often I yell helpful suggestions to the people on the TV screen (particularly during horror movies!), it seems a shame that more movies don't offer the ability for the viewer to control the outcome of the story. Of course, you could say that's what video games are for, especially in the wake of games with epic storylines and beautiful cinematics, a la Final Fantasy X. All of which makes "Scourge of Worlds" a bit tricky to classify. Is it a movie that looks and feels like a video game, or is it a video game composed entirely of cutscenes?
Because I wasn't sure what to expect and had braced myself for the worst, I was actually surprised at how relatively good "Scourge" is. The graphics are a little archaic at this point - no worse than the graphics of, say, Morrowind or Everquest I, but not as sharp and well-defined as, say, Guild Wars. The pathing is surprisingly well-paced - the choices are separated by about 10 minutes of screentime, meaning that the viewer isn't swamped with too many choices, nor bored with not enough.
Probably the biggest failing of "Scourge" is the characterization of the players. I almost would have preferred to have the words "Lawful Good" flash under the elven mage a few times, rather than have her keep repeating stilted dialogue about what the "right" thing to do is. Similarly, the thief character manages to squeeze in three or four references to "getting paid" in the first five minutes or so - it just feels repetitive and sloppy, like a quick and dirty attempt at characterization before the action. Which is fine, but since this is a D&D game/movie, I wish they'd just cut the cheesy characterization and flashed up a character sheet.
I'm being unfair, perhaps, to expect good dialogue and characterization out of this. But with the other video game elements stripped away, there's not much else here to hold the viewer besides the novelty. Hardcore gamers will enjoy going through this a few times for the novelty of it all, and I think children would enjoy the "choose your path" functionality quite a bit, but there's not a whole lot here to keep you coming back for more after the first few times. I recommend trying it out, just because it's so unusual and fun, and appreciating the spirit behind the effort and try not to look too closely at the blemishes.
Not bad recreation of an old D&D Endless Adventure Story March 31, 2009
J. Jones (North Carolina, USA)
Scourge of Worlds (Special Collector's Edition)
This Scourge of Worlds (Special Collector's Edition) is worth getting over the Basic Edition because it allows a few more different endings, and the endings have real bad things happening to main villain of the story (like being eaten by a Beholder for example?)and thus offers a more satisfying ending. Worth getting if you enjoyed the old D&D Endless Adventure Books as I did as a boy and it gave me a way to share it with my children. Worth getting.
Best Dungeons & Dragons Movie So Far March 29, 2009
Robert Blank (Pocatello, ID)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Okay so the D&D franchise has spawned some real stinkers. You have to really try to not hate them: D&D the Movie, Wrath of the Dragon God, Dragonlance. They're all really pretty awful.
This one though, is actually really good. I mean actually good, good. The name and concept are not only interesting and cool, but tie into the official lore of the Greyhawk campaign setting, involving relics of the war between the Baklunish and Suel civilizations, a cleric of Pholtus, and the signature characters who you never really get to see more than art from in the books. They do a good job fleshing them out, and you really get to enjoy their relationships. Lidda, particularly, is awesome.
The look of the movie is interesting. You can tell they made it under a tight budget--but rather than go small they stretched their resources to really do some bold things. The characters are stiff and some of the faces are pretty primative, but there's an edgy look to the design that I really like, full of cracked flats jutting through with bony spikes and weird architecture that looks like the bones of some great dead demon.
The look of the animation is reminicent of the cinematics from the original Fallout game, or from Planescape Torment, with the same kind of quirky style that transends the primative puppet-like look.
And unlike what I'd expected from a choose-your-own-adventure DVD, the choices matter. You can play the movie through several times and discover a really fun new nugget of information you hadn't seen before, or a few new exchanges between characters, or a totally new fight scene. Plus there's really a sense of uncertainty (which you totally don't get in other storytelling media) where you just don't know if the protagonists are going to make it, or if something really horrible is going to happen.
Both are totally possible.
Anyway, if you're looking to find a movie to get a jump into Dungeons and Dragons with--this is a great place to start.
Scourge of Worlds February 21, 2009
Joe M. Spears
The animation is kind of crappy, but all in all it is a fun little game. For DnD fans and fans of the old school choose your path books
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