The CRPG Book Review

The folks over at RPG Watch recently had a chance to check out Felipe Pepe’s CRPG Book that contains reviews and screenshots for over 400 RPGs. As a result we can now read their highly positive review that encourages anyone interested in CRPGs to pick up a copy for themselves. Here’s a couple of sample paragraphs:

Each review is accompanied with several screen-shots, notes about the games development history, occasional comments from the developer and where appropriate notes on updates, sequels and transitions to other platforms. The amount of detail is extraordinary and I learned many new things about games I have played and re-played several times and never knew. Everyone will learn something from the pages of this book even when you thought you already knew everything there was to know about a certain favourite game. It’s always interesting too to read someone rave about a game you disliked, or criticise a game you love. Reminds me of the forums I’ve frequented and moderated over the years.

One thing which amazed me as I poured over and devoured each page was the incredible number of games produced over this period of time. Not only have I been playing CRPG’s for over 30 years, but I have been actively involved in several gaming forums and been a beta games tester and game reviewer for much of that time. However, there were probably a couple of hundred games included which I had never heard of. Though from the comments about poor sales for many of them, I assume not many other people heard about them either.