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Planescape: Torment | 
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| From: Black Isle Studios
Category: Video Games
List Price: $79.95
Buy New: $34.48
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Seller: Little Batty Entertainment
Rating:  196 reviews
Sales Rank: 2141
Platforms: Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows 95
Genre: role_playing_games
ESRB: Teen
Media: CD-ROM
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Age: 12 - 20 years
Operating System: Windows 95
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5 x 0.6
MPN: 939536
Model: C95-862-0
UPC: 040421001651
EAN: 0040421001651
ASIN: B00002EPZ2
Release Date: December 14, 1999
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Amazon.com Review
In Planescape: Torment, you play a nameless, scarred, immortal on a quest to discover his past, his identity, and his role in the conflict over the nature of reality. The brilliant role-playing and adventure game focuses on the "Planescape" campaign setting of the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons game, and combines the best elements of Interplay's phenomenally successful Baldur's Gate with an enthralling story line, well-written dialogue, and beautiful artwork and graphics. In an inspired choice, Black Isle Studios, the developer of Planescape: Torment, has chosen to provide the player, at least initially, with as little details about the story as possible. After viewing a mysterious introductory movie, players guide The Nameless One on a journey through the bleak city of Sigil and its underground catacombs. The story leads from there to the bizarre realities of alternate planes of existence, where belief and thought determine the laws of physics. Through dialogue with hundreds of nonplayer characters, puzzle solving, and point-and-click combat, The Nameless One discovers clues about his identity and the circumstances surrounding his condition. Gamers overwhelmed by detailed role-playing games will find Planescape: Torment easier to grasp; players can freely switch between three different character classes (Fighter, Mage, Thief) for The Nameless One as the game progresses, and learning the combat and magic system--with a simple point-and-click interface--takes only a few minutes. Literally hundreds of weapons, items, spells, and "tattoos" can be collected and affixed to The Nameless One or any of the several party members acquired during the course of the game. If you're a fan of role-playing or adventure games, Planescape: Torment's engrossing world creates a must-have gaming experience. --Doug Radcliffe Pros: - Fascinating, unique setting
- Engrossing story
- Rich graphics and spell effects
- Intriguing dialogue
Cons: - Zoomed-in perspective tends to limit combat to close range
- Long load times
Amazon.com Product Description
Explore Sigil, the City of Doors. The doors serve as the town's gateway to everything and everywhere that matters. Step through one door and enter the halls of Ysgard, or turn down a particular alley and discover the Abyss. There are more gateways in Sigil than can be imagined. But there's a lot more out there than just Sigil. Get outside the city and there's the planes themselves: the throne of the gods, the battleground of the eternal Blood War, and home to more horrors and wonders than ever existed on any prime world. There's enough crusades, exploits, treasures, and mysteries to keep a band of adventurers busy for centuries to come. All it takes is the right door, so step right through.
Product Description
Advanced Dungeons & DragonsProduct InformationThe Planescape "multiverse" is the settingfor the game - but setting is actually a misnomer... the Planescape multiverseis actually composed of a series of "planes" (other dimensions) thatrotate around a central city Sigil like spokes on a wheel.The city of Sigil is the central fixture of the Planescape multiverse. Alsocalled the "Cage" or the "City of Doors" it's unique inthat scattered throughout its labyrinth of streets are portals (some hiddensome obvious) that lead to anywhere in existence provided you hold the properkey. It is neutral ground and watering hole for races and creatures from acrossthe multiverse all under the watchful eye of the Lady of Pain the enigmaticruler of the city.The world of Planescape is a more adult hard-core fantasy setting comparedto other AD&D worlds. The architecture the people the creatures --everything has an edge to it. Belief emotions faith and other abstractconcepts actually make their presence felt in reality. In the Planescapemultiverse belief has the power to reshape worlds kill and resurrect beingsand change the laws of physics.Product Highlights Charactercreation is just the beginning - throughout the game your character adapts tofit your own personal gaming style. ThePlanescape universe is a setting you've NEVER experienced before filled withsharp-edged visuals bizarre adversaries and strange magics. Encounterinventory items with personalities. Manage an unpredictable party of thestrangest allies to walk the faces of alternate planes. Youcan regenerate speak with the dead and have magical immunities. You're a powerto be RECKONED with. Unfortunately so is everyone else.The Planescape multiverse is a setting like you'veNEVER experienced before. It gouges you with sharp-edged visuals bizarreadversaries that can murder you with an idea and strange magics that unravelcommon conceptions about physics and
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Excellent May 11, 2010
RJ
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I played this for a long, long time way back on the original version I purchased when it came out. I don't know what became of that original copy, but I was overjoyed to find this republished here on amazon.com. There are places in this game that stick in my memory - the dead city buried under Ragpicker's Square, Curst, and the Fortress of Regrets. The wonderful city of Sigil that seemed to possess so many dark corners and odd inhabitants from all corners of the multiverse. There was something vastly different about this game, something that set it apart from the wonderful BGII and other games of the day. There is even something that sets it apart from the games of today, such as Dragon Age and Oblivion. Granted, the graphics are aged, but still catch the eye. They possess an art style that still makes them intriguing. The depth of ideas, philosophy and wonderful fictional history floating within the text conversations that frequent the game is what sets it above most of the RPGs of years gone and even the ones of today. Upon playing it again, I am enjoying it immensely, but find myself in a way rather sad. This game was a pinnacle from back in the day, back when you spent hours delving into conversations and puzzles trying to find the next step to solve the riddle of a man, your immortal protagonist that ever struggles to find his scattered memories. However most of what is produced today doesn't seem to come close. I found I greatly enjoyed Fallout 3, a wonderful example of depth with improved graphics. But discouraged with the linear fare typical with many console/PC games, such as Dragon Age, Mass Effect, and the latest FF offerings. It would be absolutely killer if someone revisited Planescape with something akin to Fallout 3. Alas, it will probably never happen. If you like RPGs however, I highly recommend you snag a copy of this gem while it is still available. One of the finest examples of the genre out there.
Possiblythe best storyline of any RPG February 28, 2010
cchn (Boston)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
First of all, let me state that I'm a person who generally plays RPGs for their story and general atmosphere, rather than the detailed mechanics of gameplay. In that regard, Planescape: Torment (PST) indisputably has the greatest storyline and novelty of all the RPG's I've ever played (point of reference: it trumps even my previous favourite, Final Fantasy Tactics). The world of Sigil and the other "Outer Planes" of the Planescape/DnD cosmology are depicted in a grotesque yet beautifully manner, great efforts are made to avoid standard Fantasy genre cliches (eg. you aren't out to save the world, there are nearly NO swords in the game, no elves, no dwarves etc). Given the trends of modern RPGs, I fear we shall never see a masterpiece like PST again.
To be fair, the game is probably not for everyone. The gameplay is somewhat slow (to make things worse, I think the game borrows the Final Fantasy tradition of long cut scenes for magic attacks, so casting high-level spells is a bit like getting teeth pulled). There's a lot of reading and exploration. There's an absurd number of sidequests, many of which are relevant to the story, but equally many of which are sort of superfluous.
In short, although PST is based on the same software engine as the Baldur's Gate series, the gameplay is complete different. Although Baldur's Gate series is much lauded for it's strong storyline (although I thought the second game in the series had a number of gaping holes in the plot), the focus of the game is still mostly on exciting battles and dungeon crawls. That is not so in PST: the story is truly the main focus of the game and there's only a handful of absolutely necessary battles.
In fact, don't think of PST as traditional computer RPG. It's more a cross of a cross between that and an interactive novel (THAT'S how much writing there is).
WARNING TO GOGAMER BUYERS: February 26, 2010
Nicholas Smith
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
First off, I'd like to say that Planescape: Torment is possibly the greatest CRPG of all time and if it isn't in your collection then something is mentally wrong with you. Now onto my point of concern. I purchased a copy of this from GoGamer and on their Amazon store, they mentioned that this was:
"*** This is Original & Full U.S. BIG BOX 4-CD Version! ** NOT the Dual Jewel Case 2-CDs**"
When I received the item in the mail, it was an import DVD-Rom version and NOT the US 4 CD-Rom original. I've sent an email to GoGamer asking them about this (not complaining) so I'm not exactly sure of the reasoning yet but it serves as a warning to the rest of you. THE COPY YOU WILL GET IS THE IMPORTED DVD-ROM VERSION AND NOT THE ORIGINAL US 4 CD-ROM VERSION. If you're just buying it to play it on a newer computer, then I couldn't encourage the purchase enough. However, if you're purchasing it to play on an older computer that only has a CD-Rom drive or for collectors purposes, I'd advise you to think about it before you make the purchase.
Happy shopping,
Bustaballs.
The BEST old shcool role-playing computer game of all time February 25, 2010
Adam Gish (Minnesota)
I try to play this game once a year. It's just so BIG! It has such an awesome plot, characters, artwork, setting, and the AD&D rules are kinda neat. I highly recommend this game to anyone who's getting sick of all these new role-playing games that can't stand up to the classics!
Torment, a Classic! in my humble opinion February 9, 2010
omi (United States)
One of the best games I have ever played. I love all of the Baldur's Gate games and this one ranks right there with it but perhaps better in my opinion. OK graphics is not all that but the story line (which I rate a 10) is fantastic plus the Music is wonderful. If you like Baldur's Gate you will enjoy this one for sure.
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