Drakensang: The Dark Eye
Drakensang is a third-person party-based RPG based on the pen & paper role-play rules of The Dark Eye. Drakensang is the first PC game for over 10 years to be based on Germany's most successful and popular…
Drakensang: The Dark Eye is an adventure developed by Radon Labs, released 1 August 2008 on PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 50 hrs to finish.
What Drakensang: The Dark Eye is
Drakensang: The Dark Eye is an adventure game developed by Radon Labs and released in 2008. It was published by DTP Entertainment. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It runs on Nebula Device.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The main character receives a letter asking for assistant from an old friend named Ardo, now living in Ferdok. On the way, the character arrives at the hamlet of Avestrue and finds that the word of two notables persons are needed to proceed to the city. The characters Rhulana the amazon and Dranor the thief are met here. Upon reaching Ferdok, the character learns of the reason for the access restrictions. Recently, Ferdok is shaken by a series of gruesome deaths, and Ardo is one of the victims. Thus begins a lengthy investigation to find the connection and put a stop to the murders. They turns out to be the work of the Dragon cultists, an ancient cult which serve Ardakor, an ancient evil…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are fantasy, historical, open world and sandbox. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the The Dark Eye series
Drakensang: The Dark Eye is the fourth of 15 entries we hold in the The Dark Eye series. It arrived 12 years after Realms of Arkania III: Shadows over Riva. The next entry was Drakensang: The River of Time in 2010. Its critic score of 70 is 2 points below the series average of 72. The highest-rated entry is The Dark Eye: Memoria at 77.
How it was received
Drakensang: The Dark Eye holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 33% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2008 averaged 65, so it scored 5 points above the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 50 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 70 hrs, roughly 1.4 times the length of the critical path.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Pentium® IV 2.4 GHz or better processor, 1536 MB RAM and NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT with 256 MB RAM or similar video card. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 6GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Drakensang: The Dark Eye launched on 1 August 2008, within three weeks of Braid, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky, Street Fighter IV and S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Braid, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky, Street Fighter IV, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Drakensang: The Dark Eye yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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