Its a very good game and i would suggest checking it out, just fly with a dragon kill the evil monster create cities and upgrade them you can eat youre enemies and play as diffrent charicters in missions, you have 3 dragons from which you can choose from.. create youre faight and destiny

This game is a fascinating waste of time and space - the controls are awkward and clunky and the graphics poor, but the idea of flying around as a dragon raining death and destruction down from above never loses its appeal.

I really wanted to like this game, I really do. I bought this because I remember the Dragonstrike game from SSI (remember that game?) and that was great fun. And then I run across The I of the Dragon and I was "sweet, I get to fly a dragon!"

But the fact of the matter is that the actual story and gameplay are both boring. The story was, well, let's just say that I don't care whether the humans live or die. Gameplay isn't an exciting campaign against the forces of evil. It's more like, "Roast this monster with firebreath. Now next one. Ooo, that's a boss, let's make 20 passes back and forth. Oh, and there's the lairs. Got that one. Twenty more to go." Control is both too responsive and unresponsive. Sometimes I just want to change the camera view a bit, and I end up getting a top down view, which is bad if I need to know where the enemies outside of my immediate surroundings are. Sometimes there are too many enemies and the whole game slows down trying to compute everything, which makes dodging the enemy's fireballs quite annoying.

After about halfway into the game (yes, I checked GameFAQs to see how far I got in the game), I gave up and uninstalled the game. Well, I suppose it's an okay game if you want to spend some 5-6 hours of your time, but not as a full game. Sorry.

This is a great game that didn't get very far for some known and unknown reasons.

One major problem it has is that by default, moving with the keyboard doesn't work properly as the dragon seems to get stuck. This is actually because by default VSync is disabled, and there's no option to enable it in the game menu. This can be resolved by downloading the configuration tool and using it to enable the vsync.

The tool can be found here:

http://board.zuxxez.com/showthread.php?24589-The-I-of-the-Dragon-Config-Tool

Just beware though, for some reason the tool itself has a minor bug where setting the language to english will set the game to dutch and vice versa; meaning that you must leave the game set to dutch/german for the game to be in english.

The game has its moments, but isn't what it could be. Still, for a totally unique fantasy game, it's worth a look!

Let's get some things clear from the start: if you despise awkward controls, this isn't the game for you. If you never compromise and aren't willing to try to do your best in spite of that, then just run away. But if you can stomach that, plus the mediocre to bad voice acting, then you just might try this game. If you also like dragons, then it's a mach made in heaven (I'm not promising any lack of spousal abuse).

You have three dragons to choose from - a fighter/pyro, a magic user and a necro. They all play somewhat differently, but have one thing in common - they spit and breathe death from their mouths. With the fighter actively, with the other two not as much, since they use their magic to greater effect. Each kill nets you some experience, which stack towards a new level, which enables you to make your dragon stronger on the areas like flight speed, life, attack strength and so on. You can also buy spells with your leveling points, and should, since they help you quite a bit. With your armaments ready, you can start unleashing some havoc.

At the start of the game, you need to find a human village and help them survive and expand in other territories, into which the map screen is divided. Once you build a village, the lairs, which spew out new enemies, stop reappearing and you can systematically rid the battlefield of enemies. They will invade in force over time, but you and the village defenders should have little problems in massacring them.

The gameplay is bland, but works. I've yet to find it boring, though. The controls could be better, but you get used to them. they feel somewhat like in Diablo over time, since you click quite a lot to evade and attack. You can charge up your main attack AND fly around, so no need to float there and take the heat. All in all, I quite enjoyed the game up to now. Since it's so cheap (even more so when on discount), you won't feel the burn if you don't like it all that much. But do try to at least get some mileage, it does get better before it gets stale.

If you like final fantasy,panzer dragoon and diablo or any of those types of games, then this will be just the thing for you. Flying around and eating villagers takes a long time to get old.

So this is an interesting take on an action RPG. The fun twist here is you play as the dragon. You fly and spit flame and balls of fire, you also have (through the course of the game) many magic spells.The controls are a little weird but it has a good tutorial which i recommend playing first. I can not understate the fun of flying around as a dragon and killing and eating things for exp. Graphically it's pretty good but not great and that's ok with me. I would definitely recommend this game to any action RPG fans as well as fans of dragons and eating cattle while flying.

I really like this game! I've always wanted a dragon and now I've got one..:) Although I am still in the tutorial (I am very, very new at these games) I am having a really fun time...I like eating the oxen!

I can sort of see where they were going with this game. some one was all like "you know what would be awesome?" and another guy sitting across from him eating his breakfast cheatos would be all like "wut" and the first guy would be all like "Diablo with like uh, dragons or something" the second guy with his cheesey orange fingers and filthy beard would respond with "uh..." then the first guy would again reveal more of his fantastic idea "and like, instead of having good controls for it we could make it completely unintuitive and we could make combat lack any sort of feedback and like, not have all the items and loot stuff people loved about diablo... cause it would be SO FUNNY LOLOLOLOLOLOL"

at that point the second guy with the scraggly beard and no pants would retort with a hearty belch.

i like to imagine thats what happened. based on the results i would say it is fairly accurate.

Controls as others have said are hard to use. The attacking method is not obvious as all and requires you to be in very close range and right click the enemy with the correct attack selected elsewhere which wasn't very clear. if you let it auto pilot to target you will be right above it and it will be difficult to get a second shot. Also the recharge time on your attacks is high and it is difficult to determine when it is ready. Also you may also want to make use of the options to change the mouse axis as they start off reversed in my opinion. And this game ties the height you fly at to either the mouse wheel or to certain keys on the keyboard. Not sure why they didn't get the idea to let you change height based on the camera like many other games do it. The extra controls required makes flying a somewhat complicated task. A small disclaimer. I didn't get far before I got irritated with the game. I think I stopped shortly after character level 4.

Just started playing this game, an oldy but a goody. Plenty of enjoyment to be had playing the dragon rather than slaying the dragon. Well worth the money and worth a bash...

A very fun game in a lot fo ways, let down hugely by awful control mechanics.

A very unique and fun game, with lots of interesting challanges and things to do.

However, unless you can forgive a poor control scheme, you'll find it hard to play. the controls make it so difficult to play efficiently, and feels like it was made before the mouse came into popular effect, with a lot of controls normally attributed to the mouse given to the keyboard instead.

If you can getover this, your in for a fun game, and at a decent price!

Before I write any more I've got to tell you that to run this game (at least on Windows XP) without experiencing crashes every now and then you might have to disable hardware acceleration for sound. To do that first click on the Start button, then Run..., then enter dxdiag and click on Ok. When the DirectX Diagnostic Tool has launched click on the sound tab and there drag the Hardware Sound Acceleration Level slider all the way to the left. After you've done that click on the save all information button, and save the DxDiag.txt file. Before doing that I experienced a lot of crashes, but afterwards it's been stable.

If you're looking for some deep RPG with an intricate storyline then I guess this isn't the game for you, but if you're looking for a fun game you can play every now and then it's definitely worth trying. If nothing else there aren't many games where you can play as a dragon, so that's worth a lot.

I've read in a couple of reviews that people are disappointed with the graphics, but for a game from 2004 I think it's pretty ok. Many of the dragons' magic spells affects the environment in different ways which is pretty cool, and in some ways can be useful. An example: Morrogh has got a spell that creates a crater, it's of course useful for the damage it does, but it can also be useful when you've got stronger enemies since you can trap them in the crater.

I'd wish they'd spent more time on making the flying a bit more intuitive, it's after all something you do almost the entire game. Since it's something you cannot do in too many games out there it's still an experience. The first-person camera is really weird though, I guess it does make sense to have dragon turn the head in this and that direction with no apparent reason, but it does make it practically worthless if you want to use it.

All-in-all it's a fun game if you don't expect too much of it. I'm not sure it's worth 10€, but I'm not regretting buying it as the game's given me many hours of fun. And as I'm replaying it with another dragon it does give a different experience so it does have some replay value indeed.