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The I of the Dragon

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The I of the Dragon

Rating: 3.5 (79 votes cast)

You, the player, take the role of the young, inexperienced dragon. In the role of the savior of Nimoa you move through the skies and faces all the challenges of the evil Skarborr.

At the beginning of the game the player has the choice of three dragons: Annoth The Fire Breather, Barroth the magician and Morrogh The Necromancer. All three are different and all three have their own ways of dealing with the great many adversaries you will meet. You also develop the dragon's combat abilities throughout the game to deal with the increasingly tough and resilient enemies, until you meet and conquer Skarborr himself.

That is not all, you will also need to control other characters and complete important tasks on the path to overall victory: a warlord and his steed on a potentially fatal fact finding mission, the thoroughly competent hunter on a mission of delicate accuracy and selective killing and the three huge creatures and their riders in an attempt to destroy magical generators keeping the dragons away from the next big fight.

Through 12 enormous and differing geographical areas the task is not only to hunt and destroy despicable monsters, but to build, maintain and defend human settlements. A dragon's individual character, breathtakingly fluid graphics and addictively exhausting aerial combat bring you many hours of sometimes sweat generating gameplay.

You will also fall under the spell of "The I of the Dragon" with its mystical atmosphere, impressive sunrises and colorful but ominous sunsets, for who knows what the night will bring.

  • A choice of three dragons each with its own abilities, based on fire, ice and acid, developing either into a battle, wizard or sniper dragon. There are no limits to the possibilities
  • 12 unique territories representing various geographical areas: mountains desserts, forests and savanna etc. Each map has over 10 square kilometers to cover
  • More than 60 spells with special effects available to each dragon
  • The Direct3D- based engine of the newest technology, supporting T&L hardware and multi-textures
  • Real time Terra-Forming allows complete mountain ranges disappear and reappear in another location
  • Static and real-time lighting ensure the correct lighting conditions to every day and night cycle
  • Fascinating sunsets and a night sky full of stars await you
  • Every graphic sub-system works with real-time, detail grading algorithms, which make it possible to present huge landscapes with thousands of objects without any noticeable disruption to frame frequency, even on low end machines
  • The Time Control-Option makes it possible to adjust "The I of The Dragon" to your own speed
  • Slow motion mode with a fascinating effect
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The I of the Dragon review

By greenGIANT63 posted 27th Dec 2011

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.

The I of the Dragon review

By Mom2MartyB posted 2nd Oct 2011

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!

The I of the Derp

By rosienski posted 15th Aug 2011

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.

The I of the Dragon review

By swight posted 13th Aug 2011

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.

The I of the Dragon review

By scotty2011 posted 2nd Aug 2011

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...

The I of the Dragon review

By chartinboy posted 25th Jun 2011

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!

The I of the Dragon review

By feneur posted 15th Apr 2010

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.