Dungeons & Dragons Tactics Interview

Eurogamer has conducted an interview with Atari producer Lawrence Liberty about Kuju Entertainment’s upcoming turn-based PSP RPG, Dungeons & Dragons Tactics.

Q: Do you feel the increase in technology and craving for more cinematic and engaging battles have rendered turn-based combat obsolete?

A: There are certain time-tested game mechanics that I don’t see going away, and grid-based strategic combat is one of those (chess, anyone?). As long as the pen and paper version of D&D plays the way it does, the most authentic way to handle combat in a D&D computer game is turn-based. That is not to say this is the only way to go, but I think the niche will continue to have relevance.