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The first Eye Of The Beholder, along with its inspiration Dungeon Master, can largely be thanked (or held responsible, depending on your view of this genre) for bringing RPGs spluttering and staggering out of the darkened bedroom of the anorak - and glasses-wearing social retard and into the bright daylight of critical acclaim and public acceptance.

This style of RPG banished forever the notion that these games should only consist of functional graphics and reams of statistics, depicting the action in detailed 3D graphics, with all the number-crunching handled by the computer rather than the player.

Beholder 2 continues the tradition of the first, being good to look at, easy to use and - most importantly - fun and exciting to play. To be honest, the real improvements over the first game are few and subtle, and it's still a shame that the various beasties don't have a few more animation frames lavished on their attack animations, but that won't put off the fans keen to resume their adventures in the land of Darkmoon, nor should it deter newcomers from making their first trip. Highly recommended.