Temple of Elemental Evil Guides & News

Temple of Elemental Evil

6.6/10

ByVal Hull
OnOctober 3, 2003

The Temple of Elemental Evil Review

For all its cool ideas, excellent combat system, detailed character development via feats and skills, and fine graphics, The Temple of Elemental Evil is simply too raw and buggy to be considered a decent, not to mention good, RPG. Especially if you consider all its FedX quests and minimalist roleplaying. If the idea of playing through a classic D&D adventure in a neat digital engine excites you, then you should at least wait for some patches before picking this one up.

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Val Hull
December 20, 2021

The Temple of Elemental Evil – Matt Chat

Matt Barton spends close to four hours with Troika’s The Temple of Elemental Evil in the latest episode of Matt Chat. And seeing how to this day, this game offers one of the most competent adaptations of D&D’s combat system,…

Val Hull
July 28, 2020

GOG – Grand RPG Sale Live

If you’re interested in buying some RPGs while also saving a bit of cash, you can now participate in GOG’s Grand RPG Sale. Featuring a great deal of classics, as well as some new additions to GOG’s catalog like Gato…

Val Hull
December 9, 2019

George Ziets Interview, Part 5 – Matt Chat

The fifth and final installment of Matt Barton’s extensive chat with George Ziets covers plenty of interesting topics, including the development of inXile Entertainment’s Torment: Tides of Numenera, the intricacies of corwdfunding, innovation in the role-playing genre, underutilized RPG settings,…

Val Hull
February 5, 2018

Leonard Boyarsky Interview, Part 3 – Matt Chat

In the third and final installment of his chat with Matt Barton, Leonard Boyarsky talks about his days at Troika Games and all the issues Arcanum, Vampire: Bloodlines, and The Temple of Elemental Evil had to overcome in order to…

Val Hull
December 16, 2017

Leonard Boyarsky Interview – Vampire, Diablo, and What’s Next for Obsidian

Leonard Boyarsky, the veteran RPG developer who started at Interplay, co-founded Troika Games, spent a decade at Blizzard Entertainment, and is now working at Obsidian on a mystery-shrouded RPG Project Indiana took some time to talk to PCGamesN about his…

BuckGB
June 25, 2017

Why The Temple of Elemental Evil is the Most D&D Game Ever Made

Although they admit that it’s not the “best” Dungeons & Dragons-based CRPG ever created (Planescape: Torment carries that distinction), PC Gamer has editorialized about why they think Troika’s second game was “the most D&D game ever made”. I’m on the…

Val Hull
May 20, 2017

PC Gamer’s History of RPGs

Richard Cobbett, a well-known pundit when it comes to RPGs, has put together a comprehensive guide to PC RPGs, starting from way back in 1975. With the sheer scope of the RPG genre, some titles get overlooked, but for the…

BuckGB
May 1, 2017

Tim Cain on Building a Better RPG

Tim Cain, a veteran developer and one of the founders of Troika Games, has recently delivered a keynote speech at the Reboot Develop conference. He talked about building better RPGs, and in particular, the mistakes RPG developers should strive to…

Val Hull
February 24, 2017

Leonard Boyarsky Talk: A Life in Video Games

Leonard Boyarsky, who worked at Interplay Entertainment, Troika Games, Blizzard Entertainment, and is currently holding a position of Creative Director at Obsidian Entertainment, gave a talk at SINFO 24, a Tech conference in Portugal. Boyarsky’s segment, called A Life in…

Val Hull
January 8, 2017

Icewind Dale: ToEE Total Conversion Mod in Open Beta

In case you ever wanted to know what would happen if Infinity Engine games were truly turn-based, and possibly looked a whole lot like Troika Games’ The Temple of Elemental Evil, you’re in luck. You can now play through the…