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Scourge of Worlds (Special Collector's Edition) | 
 enlarge | Director: Dan Krech
Actors: Dan Hay, Lester Rosenthal, Anna Deas, Caroline Lesley, Jack Brown
Studio: Rhino Theatrical
Category: DVD
List Price: $24.95
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Rating:  43 reviews
Sales Rank: 86453
Format: Animated, Collector's Edition, Color, Dvd-video, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Unrated
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 2
Running Time: 138 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.5 x 0.4
MPN: 970201
UPC: 603497020126
EAN: 0603497020126
ASIN: B0007CNXWS
Theatrical Release Date: June 10, 2003
Release Date: February 15, 2005
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Scourge of Worlds: A Dungeons and Dragons Adventure is not a film sequel to Dungeons and Dragons (2000), but the DVD equivalent of an interactive role-playing novel. There are over 900 short digitally animated sequences, leading every so often to a choice to be made with the remote control, resulting after about 90 minutes in one of four possible endings. Just as the original D&D was inspired by The Lord of the Rings, the scenarios here are Tolkien rehashed: a newly arisen darkness is seeking an ancient ultimate weapon, against which stand a human warrior, Regdar; a halfling, Lidda; and an elven wizard, Mialee. The CGI is closer to Roughnecks: The Starship Troopers Chronicles than the pseudo-realism of Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, the electronic score is tiresome and the contemporary voice acting, using such expressions as "heads up" and "…or something," is laughable. What of the interactive element? Essentially it offers two equally uninteresting paths at the end of every major scene--uninteresting because it's impossible to care what happens to the marionette-like stereotypes no matter what they do. While the adventure does offer plenty of well-choreographed cartoon-style action, interacting with Scourge of Worlds is ultimately about as much fun as watching someone else play a computer game--and that's just the first time through. --Gary S. Dalkin
Description
In this special collector's edition, you will be presented with a seris of dilemmas and must decide the best course of action. But beware, for each path is fraught with angels and wraiths, druids and guardians, demonic beholders and bloodthirsty orcs. Now with 6 endings and 1100 possible story paths, this is the DVD experience Dungeons and Dragons fans have been waiting for!
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| Customer Reviews: Read 38 more reviews...
 OK August 31, 2008
S. Dekleine (New Jersey)
It's OK. I get more enjoyment out of it by letting my 6-year-old make all the decisions.
 It is amusing and fun if you are bored, and the animation is cool! March 23, 2008
James Malone (California)
This is kind of cool, simple, but cool, and especially good if you are bored and have some time to kill! and the animation is pretty cool, it is fun enough to make it worth while. :)
Good first shot January 28, 2008
J. Gold
As a lifelong D&D fan and role-player, I knew what I was looking at when I viewed the CD, but I wonder if an inexperienced player would understand the roles of each of the characters in the adventure. I was already familiar with the main characters as they are in the 3rd Edition Players Handbook. I felt that unaware viewers would have trouble picking out the motivations of each of the class-types and races and this would only prove to make the adventure more difficult. All-in-all, I'm happy to see this DVD on the market and hope to see more in the future, but there needs to be more introduction for beginners and more variety for experienced players.
 Interactive adventure recommended for fantasy fans October 24, 2007
TB (NY, USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
An owner of both the original and special edition of this interactive adventure, I have managed to make it to the four endings on the original version; supposedly, the special edition has two more endings. What's to like: the fantasy story based on the main four characters' interactions (Regdar the fighter, Lidda the rogue, Mialee the wizard, and Barathion the cleric), the witty banter of the characters, the periodic choice of which path to take (often testing Regdar's level of loyalty to his different friends), and the fact that this kind of interactive dvd is both uncommon and good fun for 20-40 minutes per viewing. What's not to like: the original version does not allow watching all the way through like a movie (special edition does), the graphics are excellent for the cgi medium but not by movie standards, and it can be fairly difficult to figure out how to get to the most successful ending (just ask yourself, "What would Regdar do?"). We watched this one several times when we got it, watched the linear version once, and now watch it every few months for those elusive last two endings. Fans of fantasy adventure of the swords & sorcery flavor, as well as players of the rpg, would probably enjoy this dvd for at least a few stabs at slaying the big bad and frustrating the grumpy druid.
Scourge of Worlds, Interactive DVD August 29, 2007
E. R. Croutch (Calgary AB Canada)
Scourge of Worlds is a Dungeons and Dragons style of story with the main characters being a fighter, mage, and theif. They have the oportunity to join with a cleric or a druid. As the movie unfolds, the viewer is given many oportunities to decide which choice the characters will make thus changing the story each and every time you watch the movie. The graphics are very high quality, obviously computer generated not drawn. My only complaint about the movie was... it was too short! The choice we made the first time made the movie about 40 minutes long. We watched it a second time and had a totally different ending which surprised us. I thoroughly enjoyed this movie and plan to watch it many times choosing different paths each and ever time.
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