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DO NOT buy Eragon on the PC!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 34 / 44
Date: November 18, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Eragon on the pc is a direct console port! The mouse is NOT used in any way in this game. You cannot remap ANY of the controls. You are forced to use the WSAD commands and you cannot change these at all. You cannot even use the left mouse click to attack with a weapon! There is also no free look with the mouse, everything is 100% keyboard controlled. Even the menu is keyboard driven. This makes for a completely ruined pc gaming experience.

Great, but a few story errors

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 9 / 9
Date: November 28, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This is a great game, however, there are a couple story errors. The Carvahall level has a big attack, but Eragon never joined in in the battle, and it didn't happen until Eldest! The gameplay itself is very fun. The combat system is great, alowing spetacular battles without too much blood. Amazingly, the Urgle's limbs stay on, no matter what you do to it. I love that you can do the 2-player mode with just a keyboard. The only problem is that sometimes when one player goes one way and the other the other way, you will hit an invisble wall,which is very frusterating. The dragon flight levels are a bit annoying, but overall this is a great game.

HORRIBLE!!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 10 / 12
Date: November 27, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Downright terrible. Lousy camera angles, no in depth story and if you don't have a gamepad for your PC for this, you are really screwed! Plus, you will be done in 4 to 5 hours maximum!!!

Go online and GOOGLE reviews for this game and read them. Basically, here is all you need to know. A movie studio got the rights to this fabulous book, pressured a game developer to bang it out fast. Hence, you have a crappy game released well ahead of the movie just for the greed of making a buck and riding off the hype of the movie. Even on XBOX this thing plays terrible!

Skip this and get Elder Scrolls 4 Oblivion or Dark Messiah if you want in depth, heavy adventure that will keep you going for months....at a lower price!!!

Use a Gamepad

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 12 / 16
Date: November 26, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The PC version of Eragon highly recommends the use of a Gamepad. Otherwise play is only by using keyboard controls. Being forced to use only the keyboard could certainly detract from one's enjoyment during game play.

It was unusually difficult to find the system requirements for the game, but I include them below for those who are interested:

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:

Windows® 2000/XP (Windows x64 NOT supported)
DirectX 9.0c, or higher
1.4 GHz Intel® Pentium® 4 or equivalent AMD® Athlon(tm) or faster processor
512 MB RAM or more
4 GB of free drive space, or more
NVIDIA® GeForce®, ATI® Radeon®, or equivalent DirectX® 9.0c-compliant, 128 MB 3D video card with Hardware Transform and Lighting capability and pixel shader support
Windows-compatible USB gamepad with eleven buttons and dual analog sticks (Recommended)

In the interest of full disclosure, I have not actually played this game. The ratings are based on the average ratings given to the game at other websites - typically 8/10. I do intend to purchase this game as a gift to my son.

For anyone how is interested, and who has access to a high-speed interenet connection, there is a German demo of the game. Search for the filename: eragon_demo_de.exe.

Need a Game pad

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: December 21, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The first thing I will say about this game is 'GET A GAME PAD' for it, You won't regret it. You can pick one up at wal-mart for $9.99. That's what I did. I love the books and the movie and just had to have the game but heard that you need a game pad.
I think that this game is realy good I loved playing it. The only things that I didn't like about this game is...
(1) even on hard this game is kinda easy (but only if you have a game pad otherwise it's almost impossible)
(2) I didn't like the language. For example on the Cavahall levle and on the unlockable levle someone saids "I hope you rot in hell" to someone else (not sure who) and other times throughout the game Eragon's foes will sometimes say right before the're killed "damn you dragon rider"
The second one is the real biggy for me which is why I gave this game 4 stars insteed of 5. There wasn't any language in the books or the movie so I don't understand why they had to put it in the game. Oh well. Overall I realy liked this game. I loved finding the eggs on each levle to unlock inteveiws with the actors and game designers and such. A great game. One to buy. Hint: [...] ~Pheonix~ (a 14 year old reviewer)

DON'T THROW YOUR MONEY AWAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: January 29, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game pretty much sucks. It doesn't follow the plot of the movie or the book, the dialouge is awful, and the movies before each level are just plain stupid.

First of all I'd like to say that I loved the book, but the movie is awful. In the game you pretty much run around killing people, so it gets old fast. There is almost no plot to the game, which make it pretty boring. They could of done alot better with this game if they had actually done the stuff that happened in the book.

The next bad thing about this game is the dialouge. In the second level (Carvahall) Urgals and soldiers are attacking the village, which doesn't happen in the book OR the movie, and are slaughtering everyone, yet no one is screaming. I'm serious!!! Huge monsters are attacking and killing people, but they're totally silent!! Also, soldiers say random things all the time, like one time I pushed a guy off a cliff and as he was falling he said, "I regret nothing!" Which is a pretty stupid thing to say if your falling to your death. I would be sceaming histericly.

The movies before each level are also pretty pathetic. Sometimes there's writing in the background, and sometimes the characters turn into drawings.

So, if I were you, I would buy Lord of The Rings Return of the King instead of this. It's older but it's WAAAAAAAY better. See ya!

Eragon Game is just an ad

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is so boring. I guess I should've waited to see the movie because I might have been more entertained. I wish I had saved my money.

Not the book story but really better than the movie

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 06, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is obviously a console game adaptation and if you haven't a joypad it can gine you muscles strained on your forearms... nonetheless it's quite enjoyable overall the flying sequences and you don't have to learn long or complicated combos. The graphics are simple but good and the cutscenes are really thrilling. Just one more word: the screenplay of this game is better than the one of the movie, the director should take this as a lesson...

Good...for the most part.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: May 28, 2007
Author: Amazon User

It is true that the camera angles can be a little weird at some times, but it is relativly easy to get around. If it seems that your character is stuck in an area that is imposible to get out of, most of the time you can jump around and find a hidden ledge or doorway. Another thing that can be a problem is the controls. From reading other reviews on this game, I see that other people also found the controls awkward and clumsy. I do not have a game pad for this game, so I stick to the keyboard controls which at first take some getting used to. The controls do seem as if they were made for a console like the Xbox, but after a few deaths due to pressing the wrong button, a player will get a hang of the controls. The magic system in the game is, in my opinion, fantastic. By holding the space bar and pressing a certain action button, Eragon can toss enemies off of edges, catch enemies on fire, shoot an explosive magic arrow, move or break obstacles, and throw spears at enemies. Along with the magic system comes a combat system which again, in my opinion, is really good. Using combinations of attacks, a player can do various manuevers to kill opponents in sometimes very violent ways. By stunning an enemy, a player can perform a variety of different grapples such as spinning and throwing an enemy, holding an enemies arms and launching them with a kick, and an arsenal of versatile moves. Finishing the story mode itself is not where the most fun is. The greatest fun comes when you have a friend or family member play with you. Having a human at Eragon's side instead of an artificial intelligence computer brings surprising entertainment and satisfaction. It is exciting when you go back on a level when you finally thought you had seen everything of the game and find that there is still yet another sword technique to be learned. In conclusion, the game Eragon has a few faults, but they are out weighed heavily by the amazing combat and magic system. This is a great game for a young and relatively new gamer.

Do not buy this game!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: January 10, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Eragon does not work with AOL Security Center or Virus Suite. Tech suport for this game is incredibly poor. They take more than a week to respond and when they do respond they give generic answers. Absolutely no help and no response to specific problems. I should have read the reviews before buying. Too bad, thought since I could get my teenaged boy to read the books maybe we could play a game as a family activity. All our other games and software work with the virus protection we have and I'm not going to go unprotected for one game.

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