Product Description

This is the latest title to join "Fighting Fantasy's" brand-new look! The multi-million selling gamebook series is back with a hugely popular revamped, updated package, a brilliant new interactive website and the monsters, dungeons and peril to capture a whole new generation of imaginations. The legions of Chaos are poised to descend on Allansia. In a unique twist, YOU are the fearsome Creature of Havoc. Yet only by mastering your bestial nature and overcoming the forces of evil do you have any hope of discovering who you really are.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1847396 in Books
• Published on: 2010-02-04
• Binding: Paperback
• 320 pages

Funday Times
"Relaunched and as gripping as ever, fans of role-playing adventures will lap [these books] up."

PTA magazine
"Bound to appeal to fans of the fantasy worlds of Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings."

Venue
"A fantastic time guaranteed for all with authors Ian Livingstone and Steve Jackson."

Customer Reviews

A definitive classic, with a twist.
I remember when this book first came out. In fact, I have a copy of the first edition still knocking about in the attic somewhere.

The structure of this book is really what makes it unique. It casts the reader into the role of the main character, and allows them to make the decisions. Although nowhere near as versitile as D&D (you can only select to follow the paths that the author has written), it is still packed full of surprises.

What really makes this book unique in the series is that, unlike any other, it casts the reader as the monster, struggling to rediscover who they are. A lot of it depends on luck, as you struggle against your instincts.

Why only three stars? Well, in truth, if I remember the previous edition correctly, this book has one error in it's numerical system (all paragraphs are numbered, to allow you to flick back and forth) that left this book unable to be completed without cheating. Now, this MAY have been corrected, but given that it survived fifteen years already without being fixed I have my doubts.

And the second? Well, that point is lost to the simple fact that even the Fighting Fantasy series on a whole couldn't quite beat other choose-your-adventure books. I do admit that they were far better than most others in the field, and I have a sentimental attatchment because they were the first that I enjoyed. But quite basically, the writing skills cannot hold a torch to Joe Dever's Lone Wolf series. Let's hope they decide to reprint those ones too someday.

The sad fact is, we can hope that with the reprint, it may attract a new audience. But the truth is, it won't. Children today are not capable of looking at these books in the same light as people of my generation did. Yes, I sound so old here when I say that (I'm not even 30 yet, honest), but the simple fact is that the book form of entertainment was really a product of it's times. Stuck halfway between Dungeons and Dragons, and the rise of computer games, these served as the perfect bridge to entertain a generation of children. Nowadays, however, there's really no point in these books. Not when kids can just load up a game of Baldur's Gate or something equally dreary. Something that doesn't involve use of the imagination.

The only people that this book is going to appeal to are those like me who will want to catch the collector's 'milenium edition' reprint and perhaps relive the old magic again. And here's to us, many happy memories.

Very Good, Very Hard
I cant say i agree when reviewers have said that these books, wont appeal to the now generation, however im one of them and i love them. After bringing one to school, many people also loved them and a few bought some. To the review. This book is a great experience, not really a read because its differnt each time and varies in greatly on how lucky you are in the game. It is, however, in my opinion, far to hard, you have to decode speach in the game, and the surroundings are to maze like for my likeing, however for the more experenced player its a barral of fun. Fighting fantasy is the best when it comes to choose your own adventure books. If your new to it i suggest you buy the first eight in a box set and begin with something like return to firetop mountain or deathtrap dungeon. Youll get hours of fun, and they are replayable becouse of many death endings and one final good ending. And all a a resonalble price. i do suggest you buy the box set however, then continue to add singles if you like them. 4.5 stars.

A fantastic Fighting Fantasy game book
This game book is really hard, complex and epic as far as most Fighting Fantasy books go, but it's definitely worth buying and reading. In fact, it's really good and will impress any fan of the series!

Creature of Havoc treats the player as an adult and doesn't offer any easy paths through to the goal. It's truly bizarre too! The reader starts off as an uncontrollable beast, an unidentifiable monster that acts on its animalistic instincts to survive alone! Your destiny guides you to find and confront an evil sorcerer called Marr!

I won't reveal anymore of the story, I don't want to give too much away, but Steve Jackson really excels himself here. This book takes us through multiple and interesting environments in the main character's huge quest to discover the origins and the truth of its existence!

You get to travel from place to place in the game and meet different characters who can help or hinder you. But beware; the world is a dangerous, cruel and unforgiving place. You have to be on your wits to survive in this game book as it's very cunning and quite lethal!

At 460 references long, there's plenty of scope to explore the subterranean dungeons, plains, towns and forests in the story. The author has a great love of placing artefacts that reveal hidden treasures and doorways that can only be accessed by adding or subtracting to the reference numbers. This clever ploy makes it much, much harder for the reader to cheat!

This is a great Fighting Fantasy game book; I was really impressed by it when I first read it! It's stunningly original, well written and illustrated. It's cunningly difficult, frequently lethal, and will keep a determined player coming back for more.

Your character even has to learn to understand language as you start as an unthinking monster. This is brilliantly done by encoding normal spoken language so you can't understand or benefit from it. If you discover a way to comprehend language, you'll go much further!

Remember, determination, persistence and curiosity are the most important qualities to have when you tackled this book. You'll die many times before you get to the end successfully! I did, before I managed to complete it!

In my opinion, it's the best one written in the whole series. (...)