Product Description

• Explore a Dungeon Teeming with Adventure - Travel through a Dwarven citadel`s twelve massive levels, each riddled with evil forces and ancient treasure.
• Put your Best RPG Strategies to the Test - Solve devious puzzles, overcome deadly traps, and battle massive forces of foul beasts.
• Master Unique Weapons and Items - Wield extraordinary weapons including a sentient wand, a powerful warhammer, and magic swords. Use the DS Touch Screen to cast spells and make use of magic potions, enchanted rings, and dragonscale armor.
• Unravel an Award-Winning Storyline - With over ten hours of handheld gaming, escape to a place of adventure, mystery, and sorcery with Orcs & Elves, the new first-person adventure from id Software and Fountainhead Entertainment.
   

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #8070 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Electronic Arts
• Released on: 2007-11-16
• Rating: To Be Announced
• Platform: Nintendo DS

Customer Reviews

Surprisingly immersive
Yes it is easy on the "Normal" setting but there are 2 harder levels if you want the challenge - basically you get more monsters.
My main gripe is that there isn't much strategy required for battles, you basically keep whacking or zapping until you win, which you will, esp if you save regularly and can restart on the odd occasion you decide to preserve your potions.
Otherwise this is a basic dungeon crawl in the aforementioned eye of the beholder vein, but you find yourself wanting to complete each level, find all the secrets and kill all the available monsters to get the extra HP.
And before you know it you've finished.
Yes it's too short, too easy, but fine fun whilst you're at it...and you can get it a lot cheaper in second hand shops than amazon are selling it for.

Classic dungeon crawling
As technology and the world of videogames advances through its years, so do my expectations. I want it big. I want it elaborate. I want it to blow my mind with all sorts of visual effects and stuff to do! So despite my initial disappointmnet when I first loaded up "Orcs & Elves" I was eventually won over with its' surprisingly successful mix of contemporary ideas mixed in with back-to-the-basics game design of the classic dungeon hacker. Its no-nonsense presentation creates a quickly-paced, action-packed game that's full of energy. Even though its simplified gameplay, (just like its mobile phone counterpart which it's so clearly based on!)the design works on the Nintendo DS.

Put Orcs & Elves on the same level as any other role-playing game and you might find yourself disappointed. You can't select your character's class, or name him, but what the game lacks in story and customisation, it makes up for in a game design that gets straight to the point. You're thrust into got a sword for up-close combat and a wand to blast those far away targets. Movement is entirely grid-based: every step forward, left, right or backward, as well as every rotation is in 90 degree increments. It's also turn-based, which is really Orcs & Elves' biggest hook. Each move is a "turn." If there are other creatures in the general vicinity, they'll take their "turn" after you take yours. Specific creatures can make two turns to your one, moving one slot and attacking - but for the most part and with a few exceptions both the player and the creatures are on the same playing field, so to speak.

The games a lot of fun, but make no mistake: it can get a tad repetitive. The action is what it is right from the start, and other than the collection of different items and the occasional "push the rock" and "leap around the geysers" puzzles, the play never changes. The creature designs are constantly being recycled: a red rat in an earlier dungeon will be a "different" gold rat in a later dungeon.
Thankfully the game's been designed for the on-the-go mentality. Save anywhere? And in three different slots? And all the maps will rememeber every notch that's been traversed? Yes please!

With Orcs & Elves, do not expect a role-playing game with the production levels of a Final Fantasy or a Mass Effect. It's a mobile phone game brought to the Nintendo DS, but don't call it a port: the game looks and plays so much better than any version already on the market. The game's back-to-the-basics approach goes against the grain that probably wouldn't work on any other system but a portable one...and it indeed does work on the Nintendo DS. Even with its limitations, Orcs & Elves' fast-paced, turn-based style is a refreshing change of pace from the evolved role-playing game design, and deserves a playthrough even if you love the epic presentation of those other RPGs

Very addictive RPG action game
When I first started playing I thought it would not be that good but once you get into this dungeon and dragons type game it quickly becomes very addictive and difficult to put down.