. Dungeon-Duel in itself is an "old" game, a game tested and played in different parts of the world by people having absolutely no connection with each other. Some may even say it is a natural consequence of the human evolvement for those playing role-playing-games, and in that context let us once and for all get one thing straight : This is not a role-playing game at all! But as any experienced role-player might tell you, and Freud and Jung, it is part of human nature to compete against each other. Who hasn't heard the phrases of small kids yelling : "My Dad's stronger than yours!" Likewise in role-playing there is always a hint of competition between players and eventually someone came up with the idea of arranging a fight between two characters in an environment different from that of their characters' original setting (their Gamemaster's or Dungeonmaster's), and thus avoiding having to kill each other in the game. In the beginning this was all done on a piece of paper and the roll of the die. Later on the players became inventive and wanted to test their high-level sorcerer against two or three fighters/warriors in a game where it was every man for himself. As role-playing became more and more popular, more players naturally wanted to test their wits and luck against others. In the end these games were set up on big role-playing conventions, sometimes with money on the table, where loads of players competed with eager minds to be the last one standing, and if I may be so bold as to quote an old friend of mine :
. "There can be only one!", Connor McCloud, Highlander.
. For those un-experienced babies not yet introduced to the wonders of role-playing whom haven't the slightest clue as to what is going on, we have included a separate game for those unfortunate ones, although it should be fun to play even for the hard-core players out there. Basically the two games has the same method of controlling your characters and is identical in the information, status-screens and so forth. Instead of playing against your friends, and/or the CPU, this game is only against the CPU, and you, the valiant hero of modern times, are charged and found guilty of having to save the world once again against the tyranny of the "evil" God which this time is called Krill. This is done by completing certain tasks given to you by an oracle, each little task being completed on each level of the game. Between each task you have the chance to improve your skills, heal the wounded, reorganize your party and of course save/load the game as you see fit. This is all very well, but a fact learned from endless hours of computer-gaming stands out in my memory : Once you've completed the game you don't really want to play it again, unless it is totally awesome which is very rare these days, so we expect our future customers to play this part of the game once, maybe twice and that is it, but if you spend loads of money buying this in the first place it is a bit boring when you've completed it. Therefore our main attraction of this film, oops ... wrong subject, game is the DUEL itself where you have a multitude of options as to how difficult you wish it to be. You can decide that you want to make smothered macaroni out three of your friends at one given time, maximum four players in all, including the computer. If you are one of those pathetic little guys with BIG glasses and tons of pencils in their front pocket who spend all their time in front of their computer, and therefore have no friends, don't despair! We have implemented for all you wizards of cyberspace to be able to compete against your own best friend, and it is not Fido but your computer.
