![]() Consequently, they embark on a quest to re-imprison Ygorl and Sereka. Each is there with his or her own agenda, though upon entering the secret chamber that houses the Demon Stone and accidentally freeing the evil antagonists, the three find that their fates are intertwined. ![]() Now jump to the present, where three individual adventurers-Rannek the fighter, Illius the sorcerer, and Zhai the rogue-find themselves allied on a battlefield rife with orcs. ![]() The story begins years ago, when Slaad Lord Ygorl and the Githyanki General Sereka, the malevolent leaders of two powerful, destructive armies that have been fighting over the right to pillage the world of Faerûn, find themselves imprisoned in a mystical Demon Stone by a clever wizard named Blackstaff. Now Playing: Forgotten Realms: Demon Stone Video ReviewĪ party of heroic characters that goes out on grand quests is the very bedrock of the Dungeons & Dragons experience-and, really, of all its high-fantasy ilk-and Demon Stone delivers this staple on multiple levels. Having already brought Tolkien to the game-playing masses, Stormfront has given D&D the action treatment.īy clicking 'enter', you agree to GameSpot's Forgotten Realms: Demon Stone is an evolutionary step above what Stormfront did with The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, and players who appreciate that brand of brute-force, hack-and-slash gameplay should find in it a great-looking and enjoyable, if somewhat familiar, experience. A couple of years ago, Northern California-based developer Stormfront Studios established an accessible, enjoyable formula for melding the high-fantasy feel with visceral action in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, and now it brings the same to the Dungeons & Dragons world. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and the Dungeons & Dragons universes-the former of which stays grounded thanks to a Victorian travelogue-level of mundane detail, and the latter of which benefits from a voluminous world and detailed mythos. Within the dominion of high fantasy, there are two staples upon which you can always rely.
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