Dungeons & Dragons Tactics Reviews

Two more reviews of Atari and Kuju Entertainment’s Dungeons & Dragons Tactics hit the web over the weekend. The first is at RPGFan with an overall score of 78%:

D&D Tactics is a fun game that kept me picking up my PSP to play; sometimes even though I should have been doing something else. One playthrough will take between 40-45 hours (assuming you turn on Chess Mode otherwise, the animations will add many more hours), but if you’re interested in seeing the other plotline, you can always play again. With 6 characters in your party and 13 character classes, you could play through twice with completely different parties and still leave a class out. Some hardcore D&D fans will be disappointed by the things left out of the 3.5 ruleset, but any tactical RPG fan who doesn’t know about what’s been left out or doesn’t care will enjoy Dungeons & Dragons Tactics.

While the other is at PALGN with an overall score of 5.5/10:

Dungeons & Dragons: Tactics is an impressive feat from the perspective of how much has been fitted into the game. Unfortunately, the design of the gameplay has somewhat suffered. Firstly, the game is way too slowly paced to play as a portable title. Secondly, it is pretty much out of reach and interest range of anyone who isn’t a fan of D&D. Even fans might not be too pleased, as despite the attention to detail, there are still a lot of things that are either not there or get in the way. So while the use of the license has been pretty good, that really hasn’t translated into a good portable game.