Eye of the Beholder (game)

Eye of the Beholder is a computer game released in 1991. It was developed by Westwood Associates and published by Strategic Simulations, Inc. for DOS, Amiga, Sega CD, SNES and PC-9800. It is the first game of the Eye of the Beholder series.

Plot
The lords of the city of Waterdeep hire a team of adventurers to investigate an evil coming from beneath the city. The adventurers enter the city's sewer, but the entrance gets blocked by a collapse caused by Xanathar, the eponymous beholder. The team descends further beneath the city, going through dwarf and drow clans, to Xanathar's lair, where the final confrontation takes place.

Gameplay
Eye of the Beholder featured a first-person perspective in a three-dimensional dungeon, very similar to the earlier Dungeon Master. The player controls four characters, initially, using a point-and-click interface to fight monsters. This can be increased to a maximum of six characters, by resurrecting one or more skeletons from dead non-player characters (NPC), or finding NPCs that are found throughout the dungeons.



The possibility to increase the size of the player's party through the recruiting of NPCs was a tradition in all of the Eye of the Beholder series. It was also possible to import a party from Eye of the Beholder into Eye of the Beholder II: The Legend of Darkmoon or from Eye of the Beholder III: Assault on Myth Drannor; thus, a player could play through all three games with the same party.

Characters

 * Companions: Anya • Dohrum • Prince Kirgar • Taghor
 * Other: Baohram • Shindia • Xanathar

Creatures

 * Beholder • Bugbear • Displacer Beast • Drow • Drider • Dwarf • Elf • Gnome • Half-elf • Halfling • Hell Hound • Kenku • Kobold • Mind Flayer • Sahuagin • Skeleton • Spider • Steel Golem • Stone Golem • Thri-Keen • Zombie

Locations

 * Settlements: Waterdeep
 * Regions: Sword Coast North • Undermountain

Magic

 * Magic items: Gauntlet of Flame • Healings Potion • Magic Bracers • Potion of Poison • Scroll of Create Food • Scroll of Cure Critical • Scroll of Empower • Scroll of Fear • Scroll of Fireball • Scroll of Flame Blade • Scroll of Hold Monsters • Scroll of lightning • Scroll of Meditation • Scroll of Neutral-Poison • Scroll of Remove Paralysis • Scroll of Resurrect • Scroll of Vampiric Touch • Stone Scepter • Wand of Silvias
 * Spells: Acid Arrows • Fireball • Hold Person • Lightning Bolt • Invisibility • Magic Missile • Protection from Evil • Remove Paralysis • Shield • Shocking Grasp • Stoneskin • Vampiric Touch

Miscellaneous

 * Items: Banded Mail • Chain Mail • Chieftain Halberd • Dagger • Drow Boots • Drow Cleaver • Drow Key • Dwarven Key • Flail • Leather armor • Mace • Night Stalker Sword • Paladin Grail • Plate Mail • Plate Mail of Great Beauty • Robe • Skull Key • Scale Mail • Stone Grail • Stone Medallion • Stone Necklace
 * Materials: Adamantite • Kenku Egg