Eragon | 
| From: Vivendi Universal
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Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 6279
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows Xp, Windows 2000
Genre: Adventure Games
ESRB: Teen
Media: CD-ROM
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 12 - 20 years
Operating System: Windows 2000
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: 72431
UPC: 020626724319
EAN: 0020626724319
ASIN: B000GUTLYA
Release Date: November 17, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Live the Adventure. Experience the authentic Eragon universe in the official game of the 20th Century Fox Film. | | • | Fulfill your destiny as a Rider. With your dragon ally, experience breathless dragon flight and unleash devastating dragon summon attacks. | | • | Your foes will crumble under the weight of your thunderous magic attacks, powerful melee combos and ruinous finishing moves | | • | Unlikely allies will aid you. A second player can join at any time for true drop-in co-op play with special team attack bonuses. |
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Product Description
Eragon is an epic fantasy-adventure centering on a young farm boy named Eragon. Based on the best-selling novel and feature film, the boy's destiny is revealed with the help of a dragon. Eragon, now a Dragon Rider, is swept into a world of magic and power, discovering that he alone has the power to save -- or destroy -- an Empire. Features action-filled combat-RPG with touch screen spell casting and unique dual screen attack mode. Gamers can also sharpen their magic and dragon riding skills in unlockable mini-games.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 7 more reviews...
 DO NOT buy Eragon on the PC!!! November 18, 2006
J. Lundberg
34 out of 44 found this review helpful
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.
 Use a Gamepad November 26, 2006
R. Ketchum (Moscow, ID United States)
13 out of 17 found this review helpful
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.
HORRIBLE!!!! November 27, 2006
SBJ400 (Mt. Laurel, NJ USA)
10 out of 12 found this review helpful
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!!!
Great, but a few story errors November 28, 2006
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
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.
Need a Game pad December 21, 2006
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
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)
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