Eragon

List Price: $19.99 Discount Price: $0.51

Features:

• Live the Adventure. Experience the authentic Eragon universe in the official game of the 20th Century Fox Film.
• Fulfill your destiny as a Rider. With your dragon ally, experience breathless dragon flight and unleash devastating dragon summon attacks.
• Your foes will crumble under the weight of your thunderous magic attacks, powerful melee combos and ruinous finishing moves
• Unlikely allies will aid you. A second player can join at any time for true drop-in co-op play with special team attack bonuses.

Accessories:
Eragon (Prima Official Game Guide)	PC Gamer (1-year)

Customer Reviews:

Eragon Game is just an ad [Posted on 2007-01-09]
This game is so boring. I guess I should've waited to see the movie because I might have been more entertained. I wish I had saved my money.

Do not buy this game! [Posted on 2007-01-10]
Eragon does not work with AOL Security Center or Virus Suite. Tech suport for this game is incredibly poor. They take more than a week to respond and when they do respond they give generic answers. Absolutely no help and no response to specific problems. I should have read the reviews before buying. Too bad, thought since I could get my teenaged boy to read the books maybe we could play a game as a family activity. All our other games and software work with the virus protection we have and I'm not going to go unprotected for one game.

DON'T THROW YOUR MONEY AWAY!!!!!!!!!!!!! [Posted on 2007-01-29]
This game pretty much sucks. It doesn't follow the plot of the movie or the book, the dialouge is awful, and the movies before each level are just plain stupid.

First of all I'd like to say that I loved the book, but the movie is awful. In the game you pretty much run around killing people, so it gets old fast. There is almost no plot to the game, which make it pretty boring. They could of done alot better with this game if they had actually done the stuff that happened in the book.


The next bad thing about this game is the dialouge. In the second level (Carvahall) Urgals and soldiers are attacking the village, which doesn't happen in the book OR the movie, and are slaughtering everyone, yet no one is screaming. I'm serious!!! Huge monsters are attacking and killing people, but they're totally silent!! Also, soldiers say random things all the time, like one time I pushed a guy off a cliff and as he was falling he said, "I regret nothing!" Which is a pretty stupid thing to say if your falling to your death. I would be sceaming histericly.


The movies before each level are also pretty pathetic. Sometimes there's writing in the background, and sometimes the characters turn into drawings.

So, if I were you, I would buy Lord of The Rings Return of the King instead of this. It's older but it's WAAAAAAAY better. See ya!

You get what you pay for [Posted on 2007-03-18]
When I read the product description, I didn't expect another "Ultima X", and so I am satisfied with both the graphics and the action. One good point is that the first part starts out with what is basically a tutorial (instead of having to memorize part of a manual), and there are other screen tutorials throughout various phases. A previous reviewer is right that it's much easier to play with a gamepad rather than a joystick(much less a keyboard). Bottom line: pure action, little plot, good graphics.

Good...for the most part. [Posted on 2007-05-28]
It is true that the camera angles can be a little weird at some times, but it is relativly easy to get around. If it seems that your character is stuck in an area that is imposible to get out of, most of the time you can jump around and find a hidden ledge or doorway. Another thing that can be a problem is the controls. From reading other reviews on this game, I see that other people also found the controls awkward and clumsy. I do not have a game pad for this game, so I stick to the keyboard controls which at first take some getting used to. The controls do seem as if they were made for a console like the Xbox, but after a few deaths due to pressing the wrong button, a player will get a hang of the controls. The magic system in the game is, in my opinion, fantastic. By holding the space bar and pressing a certain action button, Eragon can toss enemies off of edges, catch enemies on fire, shoot an explosive magic arrow, move or break obstacles, and throw spears at enemies. Along with the magic system comes a combat system which again, in my opinion, is really good. Using combinations of attacks, a player can do various manuevers to kill opponents in sometimes very violent ways. By stunning an enemy, a player can perform a variety of different grapples such as spinning and throwing an enemy, holding an enemies arms and launching them with a kick, and an arsenal of versatile moves. Finishing the story mode itself is not where the most fun is. The greatest fun comes when you have a friend or family member play with you. Having a human at Eragon's side instead of an artificial intelligence computer brings surprising entertainment and satisfaction. It is exciting when you go back on a level when you finally thought you had seen everything of the game and find that there is still yet another sword technique to be learned. In conclusion, the game Eragon has a few faults, but they are out weighed heavily by the amazing combat and magic system. This is a great game for a young and relatively new gamer.

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