Remember Ultima? Tile-built worlds? Isometric view angles? Turn-based combat? Having the option to abandon your computer at will without hitting pause to prevent holy pandemonium from breaking loose?
Miss that? If so, you'll want to give Eschalon: Book One a try. It's a role-playing game (RPG) done up old-style, but rendered in clean, high-res lines and inviting hues that make it visually superior to most of its bygone predecessors. Like stats? It's got 'em. Loot? Scattered everywhere. Pick a class, a name, your attributes, and you're off to wrestle with oodles of enemies, plot twists, and your own missing memories.
Eschalon's world may not quite be Ultima-sized, but it's big enough, with a story that doesn't hold your hand or force you to tackle missions single-file. Give it a look if you miss this sort of thing, and know that it's called "book one" because it's the first in a planned trilogy. Plenty more to come, in other words. And why not? Like bell bottoms, sideburns, and platform shoes, there's no reason old school RPGs like this can't make a comeback.
Download Eschalon: Book One (Price: $27.95; Scope-limited demo)
--Matt Peckham
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Play tile-based jigsaw puzzles and create your own games
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3 | May 2008 | |
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Play tile-based logic puzzles and create your own games
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6 | May 2008 | |
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Are you ready for some real action? Try to repulse an assault of helicopters!
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2 | Shareware | May 2008 |
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Shoot the bouncing balls to destroy them all.
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11 | May 2008 | |
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Fun and fast moving card game based on the internationally popular Casino game
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288 | Shareware | May 2008 |
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Solve crosswords, anagrams, word-based puzzles, nonograms and sudokus
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147 | Shareware | May 2008 |
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An 12th coloring book program filled with 50 pages of airplanes.
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Shareware | May 2008 | |
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Puzzlefun for the whole family with different gamemodes, level and scores
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Shareware | May 2008 | |
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Navigate your mouse through 50 crazy mazes while eating food and avoiding cats.
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15 | Shareware | May 2008 |
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Most popular poker variants: Texas Holdem, Omaha, Draw Poker.
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94 | Shareware | May 2008 |
