Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6001 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Atari
• Released on: 2005-11-04
• Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
• Platforms: Windows Me, Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows XP
• Number of items: 1

Manufacturer's Description
Dragonshard is a real-time strategy experience based in the mystical world of Eberron, the acclaimed new Dungeons & Dragons realm. Within this wholly imaginative setting lives an inventive gameplay fusion: dramatic RTS play is affected by the risks and rewards of a thrilling RPG-styled underworld.

As players direct troops over the land, they also plunge smaller, hero-led parties below ground to an RPG-modeled world of beasts, battles, and bounty. Experience and items gained in this underworld result in great powers and abilities above ground.

Using magic, weaponry, and skilled maneuvers, players command armies from varying races to control, protect--or destroy--the powerful Heart of Siberys. Obtaining this omnipotent artifact will unleash its full forces, good or evil, upon the entire world.

Customer Reviews

A good idea, but a dissapointing execution
This game has a lot of good ideas. Having the 2 maps to gather gold and allow for subteranian attacks. Simplifying right down to basics, you build a building which can build and upgrade 1 creature. I also like the idea of having experience, earned by killing enemies, into a pooled resourse to spend.

This should make it a good game, but it feels more like a Beta test. Almost as if there was another stage of production to go through when they released it.

It was a good attempt as a first outing into RTS, but with other titles out there it seems a bit lacking.

Not bad, just very disappointing.
This game can be summed up in ne word: disappointing. It tries to be different, and to some extent it is, it provides 2 differnt play areas in the worlds above and below, but instead of adding to the strategy experience this detracts from it. The AI is very tame, probably to prevent the player having to switch constantly between the 2 worlds.

The base building around fixed points is a throwback to older RTS games and is not a good move. And the strategy generally falls back on the build as many units, upgrade them and rush.

As for the setting, well what can I say, Eberron is a briliant world, a magic-technology mix with vast potential for adventure and character, shame they didn't manage to capture any of it in the game.

To summarise: A half decent game that offers a slight variation on the norm but fails to deliver its promise. Try Warcraft II for a better fantasy RTS.

Nice game...but nothing new
Dragonshard is a nice enough Fantasy RTS game, and in single player mode it is very enjoyable. You can choose one of two factions fighting out The Dragonshard and there is a third mysterious CPU controlled faction that appears in the later missions...

If you have played Spellforce then this type of game is instantly recognisable, however there is no real roleplay element to the game at all. You can level your forces, and this gives them greater power, but you have to do it on every map as on each new map they start at level 1. The main character you control also doesn't level up, but you can gain persistent weapons for them at least.

A big thing is made on the box about the "Entering the dungeons" part of the game - well it's basically like the "Above the ground" part but with different textures...

The single player campaings are also quite short so unless you will be playing it online/lan then it has very limited replay value, and to be honest there wasn't much difference playing as the human faction or as the lizard faction!

I enjoyed it whilst it lasted, but it didn't last long enough for me.

7/10 rounded upto 4 stars.